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President-elect Trump’s pick of Tom Price to run the Department of Health and Human Services could be bad news for Obamacare supporters. Price has been an outspoken critic of Obamacare, calling for its immediate repeal. Do you agree with Price and Trump that Obamacare should be repealed?
“It’s going to be interesting when the people who voted for Trump see their benefits such as Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security and health care taken away. Who are they going to blame? They can’t blame Obama, that’s for sure.”
“Obamacare was flawed from the beginning. They never wanted it to work — they wanted it to be single payer run by the government, which can’t run anything efficiently. Instead of forcing it down everyone’s throat, they should have opened up the market to allow insurers to offer in every state and then tweak Medicaid to cover additional people. The problem could have been solved without ruining the best health care in the world. Twenty million people is only about 7 percent of population. They should have just adjusted the system. Now we have to fix what they screwed up.”
“Low-income people already get health care before Obamacare.”
“Yes, it was called emergency rooms, and it was very expensive. It almost put a lot of rural hospitals out of business. They’ll be closing left and right once Obamacare is repealed.”
“I think Obamacare is great insurance. However, I do think it needs to be tweaked. I have not been thrilled with Trump’s choices for his cabinet as they seem to be in favor of passing legislation for the rich with little concern for low-income people.”
“Insurance has almost doubled under Obamacare and in 2017 it will raise 49 percent more.”
“You are being misleading, and your sentiment is completely wrong. Premiums have gone up every year. However, the rate at which they increased has dropped since the Affordable Care Act started. In the five years prior to the ACA, premiums rose at an average of 4.7 percent per year, after the ACA, that figure has fallen to about 3.8 percent.
“No more Medicare or Medicaid. Who needs them? Just two more things drained from the swamp.”