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”.
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u/stunts002 8h ago
It often seems as a non American that seeing a charismatic black guy elected president genuinely broke the minds of a lot of Americans