This dirty little secret is the real reason why repeal is so hard for Republicans

The only position to the right of the ACA is "sick people should choose between A. dying and B. facing personal bankruptcy."

We had this before ACA.

Data from 2007, right before the crash, shows that 62.1% of all personal bankruptcies were due to medical expenses, and 75% of those bankruptcies happened to people who had insurance at the time they got sick.

We were living in a system where even having insurance did not protect you, because any serious illness would very quickly hit annual or lifetime spending caps, at which point you would be dumped from your policy and your newly acquired pre-existing condition would prohibit you from getting a new policy to cover your expenses.

It's this insane shit that led to an entire Presidential campaign in 2008 that was based on healthcare reform. It is the grave depravity of the situation that made countless Democratic Congressmen sacrifice their political careers voting for ACA knowing that it would cost them their seat, simply because it was just the right thing to do for the country.

I don't understand how the Republicans successfully managed to craft such a deeply rooted alternate-reality that they made their constituents forget about all the bad shit before ACA and all the good shit after ACA.

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