One of President-elect Donald Trump's major campaign promises is to "repeal and replace" Obamacare.
Vice President Joe Biden recently dared him to do so. Biden knows that 20 million Americans have health insurance that didn't before Obamacare, and they represent 20 million stories on CNN, MSNBC and The New York Times — in the entire "health care is a right" crowd — when and if Trump follows through.
Sure, despite President Barack Obama's promises to the contrary, some people lost their health care coverage and some people lost their doctors. And no, the average family did not save $2,500 per year as Obama insisted would be the case. And yes, health insurance premiums, copays and deductibles are going up even though Obama promised that his plan would "bend the cost curve" down.
All that matters to the anti-Trump media is that there is now an entire class of people to exert pressure against the repeal of Obamacare. Many Republicans say they want to keep "the good parts of Obamacare," specifically the prohibition against denying insurance based on a pre-existing condition and forcing insurance carriers to keep a "child" on his or her parents' policy until the child is 26. Republicans promised to not only repeal but to "replace" Obamacare. How can they do this — and replace it with what?
Republicans, despite their unanimous opposition against Obamacare, bought into at least two premises that its proponents argued. The first is that health care is a right — or, if not a right, at least something whose costs the federal government should reduce. The second is that, having made the decision to intervene in health care, the federal government possesses the knowledge, wisdom and judgment to reduce its costs to make it "affordable." The feds, promised Obamacare advocates, can even make health care affordable without reducing quality.
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What idiot liberals don't understand is even before Obamacare, the government had a hand in the health insurance industry. They tinkered around with it continually, which caused premiums to escalate. Obamacare was never designed to work, it was a gateway drug to single-payer which has been a disaster in every country it's practiced. Many Europeans and Canadians used to come to America for healthcare because of extensive waiting and panels making decisions based on person's usefulness to society. This myth of healthcare being unobtainable is BS. When unemployed, I had a major surgery where both operation, hospital stay and drugs associated with it were all covered. This is before Obamacare. Long before. So the myth that poor people had no access to healthcare is ginned up BS by liberals to socialize medicine.
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