Repealing the Affordable Care Act will kill more than 43,000 people annually

[Thumpalumpacus]

Aye.

... and to finish his rant: "... until you're old enough to enlist!"

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I signed us up for a Pizza a day club for my family.  Each pizza costs 100 dollars.  I'd cancel, but then my kids would starve.

The problem with the ACA is that it didn't make healthcare affordable.  It just shifted around who's making all the people in the healthcare racket rich.  We're a relatively young, relatively healthy family of 3 that doesn't qualify for assistance, and we'd be paying just shy of our mortgage for a mediocre plan with a massive deductible.  And the options would be buy that, or pay a large fine.  And that's the deal.  They squeeze thousands out of a bunch of families like mine by making us overpay for a lousy product, while protecting the companies making billions.  

What we really need, if you believe healthcare is a right, is for the costs to be regulated.  Medical supply companies, insurance providers, hospitals, probably some drug companies.  Of course, who's going to do that, the government.  It's a lousy system all around.  

I'm a republican, but I think universal healthcare probably makes the most sense.  At least there is a system that could, if a non awful person ever got a hold of it, could do something about it.
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Everything said there also applies to Colleges.

I have always thought of ACA as a mandated shift of wealth from individuals to corporations, and sure would like to see single-payer if it were done right.

I write that as someone under the VA umbrella; hence the qualifier at the end. Believe me, I had to wait ten weeks to find out if my diseased hip was AVN or bone cancer. Ten weeks that, if it were cancer, could have seen me into the ground.

That ain't doing single-payer right.