We could make this real fucking simple. Call it Medicare for All. Single-payer. Whatever. Insurance cos as government contractors or eliminate the sector entirely and pay direct to providers. I don’t give a shit. But access to healthcare is a basic human right and we should start acting like it.

And pre-tax savings plans don’t do shit when insurance cos continue raising premiums to ever more unaffordable levels of bat shittery.

Dismantling ACA isn’t about punishing insurance cos. The subsidies Dems were haggling for are tax credits. That’s our money. Not theirs. They’re talking about health savings as pre-tax dollars like your 401k. This is deregulation. Letting insurance cos resume denying coverage and selling junk plans.

They’re not concerned with affordability. The whole reason the ACA exists is to get insurance to people who were otherwise denied coverage for preexisting conditions or shunted into terrible, high-cost plans with poor coverage. It was to ensure access to preventive care to reduce catastrophic need.

HSA are available to anyone but it requires a high deductible account. These ideas absolutely requires a rewrite of existing law. But, where were these ideas before?

Correction: anyone with a qualifying insurance plan (high deductible) can get one.

Those are FSAs. Anyone can get an HSA. However, they're not that easy to get. Not many banks offer them.

Yes. Would be a new law. Don’t see how this is feasible to role out in a few weeks. ACA too four years and was really glitchy the first year

And people without a corporate employer (ie, most ACA users) don't have access to HSA accounts on their own. So at best they'd have to change the laws and set up some new systems very quickly as part of this, no?

Um, also pretty sure you can't pay insurance premiums with funds from a HSA

There will be some "Wow you can't make these people happy" sentiment but what's really happening is the Dems are beginning to reap the consequences of not really believing in anything. Choreographed maneuvers, too clever by half talking points. People have just had it