1. Before obamacare.
2. I’m sure it had guaranteed issue along with everything else mandated, so I guess your point is that now I should be happy that I have no health insurance? I still have healthcare which I pay for myself, with cash. But if you think obamacare helped me, then fine.
Ok, things were pretty good in most states before Obamacare.
2. I’m sure it had guaranteed issue along with everything else mandated
Well, it's a BFD if it didn't, because 31 states had high risk pools before Obamacare. If they took away your HRP, premiums would have "necessarily skyrocketed".
so I guess your point is that now I should be happy that I have no health insurance?
Calm down!
Obamacare screwed up insurance for almost everybody except the "newly insured" who were not paying for it. No, my point is that the coverage mandates are probably not the culprit, but guaranteed issue probably is.
The two issues are not equally responsible.