Team Biden plots attack on Trump over Obamacare

If Biden really wants to sweeten this, he should propose improvements to the ACA, in addition to preserving what Republicans have thus far failed to kill. Start playing offense.

Get rid of the concept of deductibles, bring back that public option, allow year-round sign up, there are a lot of improvements that could be made. Unfortunately Democrats are not the party of solutions, they are a party of maintaining a status quo.
- They are a party of doing as much as they are able and not promising what they can't do.
  You'd complain twice as hard if they said they would try to implement the above then failed to get the votes
I think our parties are only interested in offending each other, not in doing something that actually helps a majority of Americans.
- One party got Obamacare done and is responsible that 40 million Americans who otherwise wouldn't have health insurance are covered by the Affordable Care Act.
  The other side has sabotaged Obamacare in any kind of way possible, has blocked the Obamacare expansion to uninsured people in their own home states, has sued all the way up to the Supreme Court to eliminate Obamacare, has campaigned for 10 years against Obamacare, and came to within one single vote of eliminating Obamacare without any kind of replacement whatsoever.
  And here you are, telling us how both parties are the same.

Trump will do what he did last time. Claim to have a Healthcare plan. Point to an enormous pile of blank paper saying it's his Healthcare plan or something. And continue to have absolutely no plan and make no progress. Followers will irrationally feel like things are improving even though nothing has changed. Or actually gotten worse if they manage to get control of the house and senate and kill the affordable care act. Expect gains Biden made in his administration, like for the first time allowing Medicare to bargain with drug companies for better prices, to also be on the chopping block.

For a candidate that was the first real meme candidate, it's pretty amazing there aren't popular memes about his lying and deflection and haplessness.
It seems the gish gallop works in the dank.

Trump promised a health care plan by August 2020. It obviously never came. There is no Trump health care plan other than repealing a Healthcare policy 60% of Americans have favorable views of. A great target for the Biden campaign.

Yeah, let's throw millions of Americans back into the clutches of the scarcely regulated health insurance industry like it used to be. That's a winning message. Please proceed, Mr. Trump.

It is a winning message for the "Fuck you, I got mine" crowd.
- It’s also a winning message for the I-vote-my-values-not-my-best-interest crowd.

Personally I am still on team repeal and replace, repeal the Affordable Care Act and just go with a single-payer healthcare program like you would find in any Civilized Nation

Trump will release his plan in 2 weeks.
As disappointed as I am with the Biden administration, I must have missed where Biden's campaign was ambitious enough to run on revisiting the public option. Do you have a source for that?
Why do we have to choose between these two?
Because unfortunately our options at this point in time in the US are fascism and not fascism.
A lot of democratic and left-leaning Americans didn’t vote for Biden or Hillary, but rather they voted against Trump.

Fail until you claim victory?

"Affordable" Care Act.

Ha.

I need surgery. The list price is $40,000. The cash-up-front price through a hospital was $9500. The price for the same surgery through an ambulatory surgical clinic is $4700. I am offered insurance through my workplace. My monthly premiums would be $200, I would have an annual deductible of about $5000 before 20% coinsurance, and then an out of pocket maximum of $9500. My price through workplace insurance would be $11,900 (monthly premiums + out of pocket max). I can get a platinum plan on the Healthcare.gov that would cost me $750/mo in premiums--I don't qualify for any subsidies because I can get shitty insurance through my workplace--that has an annual deductible of $750, and an out of pocket maximum of $1500. So the same surgery would be $10,500 for a full-price plan on the marketplace.

Short of a catastrophic accident or illness, insurance just isn't affordable, and doesn't make sense. Unless Biden can fix the system so that you can get subsidies on the marketplace even if you are eligible for insurance through your employer, it's just not going to work. I would definitely pay $250-300/mo for a platinum plan, but I can't afford $750/mo, and I can't afford to pay both the premiums and the deductible for what I can get through my workplace.