>In fact, one could argue that all ACA accomplished of benefit was forcing coverage of preexisting conditions.

Aka giving people access to healthcare.

Health insurance is not real insurance, it’s a facade where we pretend premiums are not taxes.

99% of people could never afford the healthcare they get, they would just die. Which is fine, but there is no situation where healthcare + low taxes (wealth redistribution) exists.

So it’s high taxes + healthcare, but with a flattening and top heavy population age histogram, even that doesn’t work.

The worst is when old people only get healthcare (Medicare, which is all there was before ACA). A country is doomed if it’s just sacrificing the future to eke out a few years its oldest.