"what they WANT" was so far out of the reach of the average person as to be in the same class as a 30-meter yacht?
People WANTED insurance pre-ACA. What they didn't HAVE was any way to afford it.
What they COULD afford were JUNK POLICIES of the sort which are now BANNED! HUGE deductibles, MASSIVE lists of "not covered," and CAPS on how much they would pay out. And the prices were STILL so high that most folks couldn't afford them.
AND the insurance companies, if you DID manage to get something for which you WERE covered under one of those garbage policies, would drop you for any, or NO reason at all except that they were actually having to pay out money on the policy.
So, your "solution" was the exact thing we HAD BEFORE THE ACA, and it did NOT, does still NOT, and never COULD, work. There was absolutely NO limit to the corporate GREED.
Yes, Peace-Man, what we need is what every OTHER country has where you can go to the bathroom in-doors and not have to dump the bucket out in the morning. CIVILIZED countries, as in places with plumbing, ALSO have health care for their entire population, and NOBODY goes bankrupt getting the surgery for their kid who happens to catch something. Or their spouse when they're injured at work. Or their parent who gets a cancer.
The U.S.A. is the ONLY "civilized" country where MEDICAL BILLS are the leading cause of BANKRUPTCY! (About sixty percent of all bankruptcy is due to massive medical bills.)
So, NO, we DON'T want the bad old ways back. We want THIS to work BETTER. BETTER, because despite all the propaganda, IT IS WORKING FOR SIX MILLION PEOPLE WHO DIDN'T HAVE INSURANCE BEFORE NOW.
And to date, EVERY ONE of the "horror stories" that have been trotted out and dangled in front of people to scare them away from getting insurance, EVERY SINGLE ONE has been shown to be a lie.
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