Dear @AOC: For someone who prides herself on being able to empathize with the poor & downtrodden, this statement is incredibly tone deaf and tunnel-visioned.
Yes, there are serious flaws w/the #ACA which need to be addressed...but it's a MASSIVE improvement over the pre-ACA era.
Yes, there are serious flaws w/the #ACA which need to be addressed...but it's a MASSIVE improvement over the pre-ACA era.
https://twitter.com/SusannahLuthi/status/1321826946599235591
To be clear: You voted for #HR1425 this summer (essentially ACA 2.0), for which I applaud you.
But think about what you just said: You think it failed *in general* because it didn't work *for you and your immediate circle of co-workers*.
That doesn't mean it failed for others.
But think about what you just said: You think it failed *in general* because it didn't work *for you and your immediate circle of co-workers*.
That doesn't mean it failed for others.
The ACA vastly improved life for tens of millions of people.
It failed to improve life for other people, apparently including yourself. Fair enough. But making a blanket "it failed" statement because you don't feel it helped YOU specifically? Think about that stance a moment.
It failed to improve life for other people, apparently including yourself. Fair enough. But making a blanket "it failed" statement because you don't feel it helped YOU specifically? Think about that stance a moment.
Did you or any of your co-workers have a pre-existing condition which caused them to be denied coverage or to be charged 10x the average premium to receive it?
Did you or any of your co-workers have their policy *retroactively* terminated the moment they filed a claim?
Did you or any of your co-workers have their policy *retroactively* terminated the moment they filed a claim?
Perhaps you're thinking of the several million people caught in the Medicaid Gap in states which refused to expand the program. That's not part of the ACA, which required EVERY state to expand Medicaid; that's because of the SCOTUS and a bunch of GOP Governors & legislators.
Perhaps you mean the Public Option not being included. Well, it was...in the House version. Then Ted Kennedy died, Scott Brown won, and the Senate Dems had to scramble to get as much of it through w/out 60 votes as possible. The PO didn't make the cut, which sucks I agree.
The larger problem w/@AOC's mindset is it assumes the #ACA was the end of the road, when it was simply the latest phase in a series of steps. If she was a member of Congress in 1975, would she have said that Medicare (originally for 65+) "failed" because it "failed her"?
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