538's polling column about the state of health care, voters' trust in the 2024 election results and President Joe Biden's approval rating.
  • toast@retrolemmy.com
    1·
    5 months ago

    I agree that we got change under Obama, but I wouldn’t call it any more than that. Softening the edges of the existing system just enough to gut any real push toward change isn’t reform; it’s entrenchment fundamentally different systems like universal healthcare wasn’t reform; it was entrenchment.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      9·
      5 months ago

      Well then you didn’t have any pre-existing conditions.

      I did.

      That was huge for me and millions of other people. A game-changer.

      • toast@retrolemmy.com
        1·
        5 months ago

        Well then you didn’t have any pre-existing conditions.

        I don’t know why you would assume that, or why you would imagine that I was unaware of this change.

        That was huge for me and millions of other people. A game-changer.

        Of course this was huge for people, but it wasn’t a huge reform for the health insurance agency. It didn’t change the for-profit nature of health insurance; it just put a guardrail on it. It softened one of the hardest edges of private health insurance, which made it palatable enough to escape real reform.