A lot of people are selling the lie that the Democrats had some kind of "good" bill that was ruined by the Republicans and evil corporations.

I've seen texts of the ACA bill back to the earliest ones they put on line. It's always been a couple of thousand pages long, and it's always been full of unworkable crap.

Keep in mind that when the bill was written, passed, and signed, the Republicans had no power in either the House or the Senate, and the bill passed with no Republican votes at all. It passed with legislative tricks and by the skin of its teeth, and if any lobbying corruption was involved, it had to have been Democratic corruption.

The "37th," "48th" and similar numbers are based on two specific studies, and their methodology blows goats. The only major outcome-related item in the methodologies was life expectancy. This has many factors other than health care, and it's amazing how the numbers move when you just factor out violence and accident.

Most of the other "grades" were on how socialist the health care system was. I went over it in more detail in a similar thread a few weeks ago, so I'm not going to waste time on it again. The responses there are instructive.

Everything you see about how crummy American health care is for the price is based on this. Repetition doesn't improve accuracy.

The attempt to nationalize health care has never been about the quality of the care.