Kamala is for more affordable housing too. That's greatt!
Glad we agree.
The ACA wasn't popular in 2016. It's gotten more popular.
It was fairly popular in 2016.
It wasn't popular in 2010 when it came in.
It climbed steadily over time, and even people who claim to be against it often support specific
parts of it.
This is probably because a lot of people have just come to accept it and many of them aren't impacted by it directly. I know some self-employed people who don't like the program. They always had insurance, but now Obamacare dictates many aspects of their insurance.
There are absolutely individual people who didn't like the change.
Overall it has been a success and is popular.
I'm not saying the ACA is a bad program, but not everyone is/was happy with it.
Name a single government plan that doesn't fit that description.
In a country of 330 million plus, it would be unheard of to have a plan where "everyone is/was happy with it".
As far as Trump not having a replacement plan in place, I think practically speaking it came down to there was no consensus in Congress on how to replace it.
Exactly.
And he went ahead and pushed them to repeal it anyway.
Because having a replacement wasn't the point - getting rid of it was.
Unfortunately, our legislature is not designed to handle all the details of a large complex issue like healthcare.
And that's the other way to think about it, of course.
There was no need for a replacement because just removing all legislation and letting the market sort it out would be better.
Government shouldn't be involved.
Of course, the vast majority of people hated (and still hate) that idea, which was why there was so much lying about their being a replacement plan.
In the end, either Trump wanted it repealed because he just wanted to claim the win and didn't care what happened next, or he was ideologically driven to believe government shouldn't handle it and therefore repealing it without a replacement plan was the goal the whole time.
In the end, enough other people disagreed with "just pull it and let the chips fall where they may" that it didn't pass. (And possibly McCain voted against out of pure spite - difficult to tell.)