The ACA did little if anything for the average American. It did get a lot of press coverage and the public slant turned out to be quite a bit different from the actual results.
The USA does not have enough doctors. When you go to see your doctor, the desk asks you what else you have besides Medicare or Obama Care. If you don't have additional coverage, in many places the doctor you want to see, won't accept you as a patient.
Why should a doctor acdept payments of 40% of the bill, when people with additional coverage are waiting to see the doctor. In California, almost 1/2 of the doctors won't see a patient that only has Medicare and/or Obama Care.
As I see it, both parties, Democrats and Republicans have the very same agenda, what they need to do to get elected.
About 1/3 of Americans will vote Democratic no matter who is running. About 1/3 of Americans will vote Republican no matter who is running. It is the other 1/3 of Americans that actually choose who will win. No one can win without the independant voters.
To get nominated in the first place, the politician must win the party primaries. So what they say in the primaries is not necessarily what they say in the general elections. And, as we all know, it is difficult to tie any politician down to what they had to say earlier.
And, when they win the general election, they walk in lock step with their party's leadership. I may live in Montana, but our Democratic Senator does what the Senator from New York tells him to do. This is also the case with our Republican Senator.
Barry Goldwater said, "A politician thinks about the next election. A statesman thinks about the next generation." 60 years later this is still true.
