Obamacare: how much was it to blame for the loss?

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49. Obamacare was done wrong, sold wrong, and of course it cost Democrats in 2016!

My biggest beef with Obamacare is that the debate ignored the reality: Health Care is expensive and you can't magically cover 30-40 million more people without it costing a ton of money. We all know the reason that MOST people didn't have health coverage wasn't because they didn't want it, it was because they couldn't afford it. Penalizing individuals for not buying insurance, while eliminating major medical policies was a mistake.

My solution has always been the same to fix health care:

1. Make a list of the most expensive chronic conditions. Everyone diagnosed by 2 doctors with these conditions qualifies for medicare and you get a lifetime medicare card. Single payer for the most needy essentially.

2. Create a public option major medical program for young healthy people. First 20k per 5 year period is on the consumer, after that, single payer federal government. Nobody should go bankrupt for health care.

3. Tell the drug companies to go to hell, open our borders to foreign drugs.