Isn’t the reason she wants the aca to fail is because she wants to impose a singular government healthcare that covers everyone whether or not they want to be part of it? Private insurance would be eliminate and decision panels would write up a code which would be the basis of who receives treatment and who doesn’t receive treatment. Don’t all Dems want this?
Yes, but it’s even worse than you describe.
Already more than half of the “newly insured” have come from relaxing Medicaid eligibility requirements (no asset test, open to anyone not just children, pregnant women and handicapped as before).
The catch?
Your assets are seized upon your death if you are on Medicaid. Therefore, the plan is to eliminate wealth transfer between generations making more and more people dependent on the state.
Even a small inheritance, say your parent’s house when they die, can be used by the descendants to start a small business, send a child to college, pay off debt, etc.
This will disproportionally hurt people who have struggled to get out of poverty and have managed to amass a small amount of assets, which they can then pass on to their children or grandchildren. We’re not talking millions here. We’re talking $50,000 or so which could make a big difference in the next generation getting up the economic ladder. All gone to the government if the person was signed up for Medicaid.
So, no incentive to work to get out of poverty and own property, no matter how meager. Why work hard to buy even a modest house if you cannot sell it later or pass it on to your kids?
This is the ultimate goal of Obamacare is to make more and more people property-less, asset-less. Then they are easier to control with carrots such as subsidized rent, food, etc.