Bill Clinton Slams Obamacare

[Christian Smith]

I picked this article because just the other day, I was listening to a podcast that was also ripping into Obamacare and it interested me to hear if the reasons were similar. They were both along the lines of how ridiculous it is that healthcare costs are rising on average 40-60% which is beyond affordable for anybody year after year. The podcast was talking about how it affected small businesses, costing them millions of dollars and ultimately because of that costing people jobs. However, I believe Bill Clinton was bashing Obama's plan not necessarily because he did not like it, but solely for the political gain it would bring for his wife, Hillary. Hillary has her own healthcare plans that are supposedly going to be better than what we have now (which is not saying much), so why not bash the current presidents healthcare in hopes that more people will support your wife and her plan? 

http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/04/politics/bill-clinton-obamacare-crazi...

[Jason Boyd]

Christian,

     Obamacare was undoubtedly a hotly debated topic and, as according to your post and the article you referenced, still is. I was able to see firsthand how the ACA affected small businesses. A particular vendor asked me and my boss out to lunch to present how their company could better provide a service that we were already using by a competing vendor. Halfway through the presentation, it was the salaries/profit margin and savings portion related to the burden per employee, that his assistant stopped him mid-sentence and corrected what he was saying because of the changes their company were taking as a result of the ACA. Needless to say, he obviously hadn’t updated his presentation, but what was revealed was just how badly the ACA affected their operations, a point I don’t think we were supposed to know. It was an uncomfortable moment and devastating to the presentation as he simply could not continue.

Some say the answer may be to privatize healthcare. And while I think this is a noble idea, I think the system currently in place with regard to regulations in health practices, insurance companies and pharmaceuticals, plus the already established public/private relations between the government and businesses involved is too complicated for this to occur. I am not entirely sure what the correct way to address this issue would be, but what is currently in place is definitely in need of review.