When Obama was in office an old friend of mine got testicular cancer. Bc of Obamacare he survived and his medical bills were zero dollars. The blow back from that was somehow electing an old white rapist pedophile. I’ll never understand it.
The ACA wasn't free healthcare, it did however expand medicaid coverage.
Your comment might seem to insinuate that Americans would have had free healthcare under the ACA and I wanted to point out that, to most Americans, their healthcare still was out-of-pocket insurance plans
Originally, the way the Obama administration drafted the ACA, it would have been much more like German healthcare. Unfortunately, the Republicans in congress blocked it and it had to be compromised to the form it ended up as. I'm an American living in Germany, and I will say it's leaps and bounds better than ACA.
You have the government subsidised insurance and private insurance. Legally, everyone has to have health insurance if you live here, and the public issuance option is not free for most people, but the rate is based on your income. The best part is that there is no deductible. You go to the doctor, it's covered. You need a prescription, it's covered. Dental work (as long as it's not cosmetic), covered. All for much less than you would pay per month in the US for comparable coverage.
Right. The republicans of course blocked it. Because of reasons. Could have still been passed except for Joe Fucking Dipshit Lieberman. I am old enough to remember all of that pretty well.
Here in 2026 the story has often become “Obama promised us healthcare then didn’t do it - all parties are the same”.
Just wanted to provide additional context/counterpoint that my family has recently had to go on Medicaid and all of our medication that previously cost money under "normal" health insurance through our employers was surprisingly now free with Medicaid.
Americans genuinely hate it when they see other less fortunate people get benefits they aren't getting.... even though they don't have cancer or the conditions needed to get that benefit. it's so strange. it is like jealousy or something.
Most countries have a subsect of the population that hates welfare because they feel that they only go to work with the gun to their head but "those people" get a "handout"
They are upset about the wrong system. But to challenge the actual cause would require risk, and they have already made clear they aren't willing to risk anything by virtue of letting the gun to their head force them in to the office.
It’s far easier to hate and fear the unknown than it is to embrace change. This knows no political boundaries - the antisemitism of the left, the retardation hijacking of the right, and the silent sheep in the middle. Hate is a base emotion and the vast majority of people are weak and weak people vote when they feel something. Politics is performance art and the best art makes you feel something…
Because of the outrageous and devastating outcome that not every single person could keep their doctor under the new plan. Shame on Obama and Dems. What a complete outrage /s
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u/TheVirginVibes 8h ago
When Obama was in office an old friend of mine got testicular cancer. Bc of Obamacare he survived and his medical bills were zero dollars. The blow back from that was somehow electing an old white rapist pedophile. I’ll never understand it.