Re:Health Insurance Companies Take Down Leadership Pages Fol...
by nozzlegear on Saturday December 07, 2024 @10:10AM
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Good point, he didn't campaign on making the system worse and the way I phrased that made it sound like he did. He campaigned on repealing the ACA and replacing it with something better.
> But you can't then assume the people who voted for him were voting for the system to be worse.
At least in 2016, some of his voters that I knew personally just wanted the ACA to be gone and to have "freeloaders" kicked off of the system. They weren't voting to make it worse for themselves, per se, but voted vindictively to make it worse for others.
No, he has literally said he would replace it with something better.
This is a lie, obviously.
But you can't then assume the people who voted for him were voting for the system to be worse.
Some fraction of them are likely desperately hoping it gets better and have just had their desperation taken advantage of.