Ray From Cleveland
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- Aug 16, 2015
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Lowered taxes on our job creators for one. Removing job killing regulations. Freeing them from Commie Care which stopped small businesses from exceeding 49 employees.
Businesses now feel they have a friend in the White House. We have an 18 year high in corporate confidence, and a 41 year high in small business confidence which is a new record.
But even without what Trump has done, just getting rid of the most anti-business President in our lifetime is a relief to big businesses and small.
The uninsured have increased by more than 3 million since Trump's inauguration.
Ok, and how many of those are now uninsured because Obamacare forced them to get insurance that they didn't want and now are not insured because they finally have a choice? That's like saying people really like to drink piss because when you point a gun at them and tell them to drink it or they will die that they drink it. They're not a given a choice. Obamacare wasn't a choice. It was forced health insurance. Of course insured numbers will go up. You mandate it under penalty of law. When you remove the penalty people will get back off again. Doesn't mean anything is wrong now.
Your number assumes every single one is uninsured because they can't afford it.
Here is a big hint: Not everyone wants or needs health insurance.
The reason for forcing people to buy insurance is to stop freeloaders. These are people who buy insurance when they get sick and dump it when they are healthy. That leaves people who buy insurance holding the bag. Either you force people to buy insurance or you have something like a 90 day waiting period for benefits to kick in.
Insurance companies know how to handle their own issues. They don't need big-eared Commies telling them how to run their business.
The reason he tried to force people into insurance is to mix people who didn't need insurance (younger physically healthy people) so indirectly they would be paying for those who were sick.
Insurance companies were scamming people. People with pre-existing conditions and older people were being strangled with ridiculous premiums. Obamacare did bring some protections for people.
The mandate was created by the Heritage Foundation which is a conservative organization. It was to prevent people from scamming the system.
The Heritage Foundation is no more part of our government than Mother Jones. If Commie Care was a success of any kind, they wouldn't have even brought the Heritage Foundation up. You can't say because somebody on the right not in politics came up with an opinion piece, it was an idea of the right.
Sorry, history will write that Democrats own this one. As for preexisting conditions, I've had preexisting conditions since my early 20's, and until Commie Care, was insured my entire adult life. I'm 58 now.