Cruz tax plan

[popeyespappy]

It looks like the Obamacare benefits the insurance companies more than anything. It is not a single payer healthcare plan that was sold to the American people. It was Obama paying his rich pals in the insurance business.

The ACA was a compromise. Obama wanted a single payer system. Congress wouldn't give it to him. As far as the individual mandate goes we can't have some of the good things about the ACA like eliminating restrictions based on preexisting conditions or low lifetime maximum payouts without paying for it. The individual mandate is a tax that pays for insurance for sick people by spreading the cost to healthy people. We might be able to save billions by cutting the for profit insurance industry out of the middle, but that would mean the government would have to administer any single payer system at least as efficiently as private industry does. Frankly I'm not sure they are capable of that.