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In reply to the discussion: My experience with Universal health Care [View all]adieu
(1,009 posts)I agree that the current ACA is just a patchwork of negotiated compromises to suit the insurers more than the general public. But it's a first step. From here, we can say, "This part is better than before. That part stayed the same. That part became worse." From that, we now have a vector on the direction to take. Continue on the parts that are better than before, with slight tweaks to make them even better. Correct and improve on the parts that have not improved or actually got worse.
Even with a stupid plan, it was important to have a health care plan in place, just so we know what directions to take.
If you're lost in the woods, you need to move in one direction. If that's the wrong direction, you know not to continue in that direction and move in another one. Staying still gets you nowhere and that's what it was with the health care plans of the US for probably two or three generations.