Steve isn’t even a particularly… useful idiot. In the main, he can’t read his own charts. Not with an eye to critical thinking at least.
The knucklehead declares Obamacare a failure, based on a chart that shows healthcare costs are rising in the United States. [All reasonable estimates from just before the ACA of 2010, projected that health care costs would become about 24% of the US GDP by 2022, if we didn’t act. Today, in 2024, 14 years on… health care amounts to about 19% of GDP. Still very high, but a full five points, or 25% lower than those costs would have been, without Obamacare. ]
He neglected to compare that data he cites, with the periods prior.
Moreover, he forgets that in Texas almost no one could afford any kind of healthcare insurance prior to 2010. Same in Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee.
What do each of these states have in common?
That’s right, they were, and are ruby red states… run by hard right governors and legislators… That coincidentally also happened to have very robust very profitable private for profit hospitals and doctors’ groups.
So it was that Obamacare ended at least some of that excess. It does still exist though to be sure.
In a semi-related tangent, these Powerline boys (Hinderaker and Johnson mostly) are trying to make the assassin named Luigi Mangione a “lefty…“ are hilarious. His family has donated millions to GOP and hard right causes, including PACs pushing Trump’s 2016 and 2020 election efforts.
He has expressed admiration for Elon Musk and Peter Thiel. At bottom — I suspect he’s just a spoiled brat who was angry that he didn’t get his back care covered. And it is clear he is mentally ill.
In any event, I would have expected that the Powerline boys would have preached mantra of family responsibility – that is, they would lay blame for his views at his parents’ feet. What did those parents do? Or not do?
So yeah, guys — give it a rest. Your con won’t work on us.
Out.
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