I agree that we got change under Obama, but I wouldn’t call it any more than that. Softening the edges of the existing system just enough to gut any real push toward change isn’t reform; it’s entrenchment.
Well then you didn’t have any pre-existing conditions.
I don’t know why you would assume that, or why you would imagine that I was unaware of this change.
That was huge for me and millions of other people. A game-changer.
Of course this was huge for people, but it wasn’t a huge reform for the health insurance agency. It didn’t change the for-profit nature of health insurance; it just put a guardrail on it. It softened one of the hardest edges of private health insurance, which made it palatable enough to escape real reform.
I agree that we got change under Obama, but I wouldn’t call it any more than that. Softening the edges of the existing system just enough to gut any real push toward change isn’t reform; it’s entrenchment.
Well then you didn’t have any pre-existing conditions.
I did.
That was huge for me and millions of other people. A game-changer.
I don’t know why you would assume that, or why you would imagine that I was unaware of this change.
Of course this was huge for people, but it wasn’t a huge reform for the health insurance agency. It didn’t change the for-profit nature of health insurance; it just put a guardrail on it. It softened one of the hardest edges of private health insurance, which made it palatable enough to escape real reform.