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mojo84 wrote:I hear you. I promise you the administration made sure the rates didn't come out prior to the election. It was scheduled to happen the day after the election.

The Republicans that are running the show are the same people that were there when all this was rammed down our throats. Nothing like getting the majority back and putting the same old people in leadership. I know many do not agree with me, but we need term limits or to at least eliminate the gerrymandering of districts.

I'd even be happy with getting rid of John Boehner as speaker (I don't know much about Mitch McConnell), but I doubt that'll happen.

BigGuy wrote:I agree that that the skyrocketing cost of health care was/is a major part of the problem.

Arguably, it was the only part of the problem. If the total cost of a triple-bypass surgery was $50, not only would nearly everyone be able to afford it in the first place, nobody would mind footing the bill (though taxes) for those who couldn't.

Abraham wrote:Once conservatives are in complete power, namely Presidential, is it naive to think Obamacare can't be overturned?

Naive? I don't know... There is economic value in having stable laws. Simply repealing it now (well, Jan 23, 2017) might make things worse, and for just long enough to hand democrats complete control in the next election cycle. At some point, we'll be better off dismantling it piece by piece, just to give people and businesses time to adjust more slowly. It's also possible that the economic problems caused by the ACA are worse than the economic benefits of not changing the rules of doing business, so maybe there are no downsides to just repealing it. I don't know what the case is, but I do know that any serious talk of getting rid of it should at least acknowledge the (potential) issue.