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The ACA was the middle ground and it's still bad.

I agree with you, I'm saying we should learn from the mistakes and iterate on the current instead of fighting for extremes that will never work or be passed

One thing the Republicans could have done was to iterate on Obamacare instead of trying to repeal it for 8 years and now that they are in power they show that they have no ideas and no interest in improving anything.

While I think there's something to your point here, I wish for the sake of avoiding flamewars per the HN guidelines you could put it in less partisan terms. (For example by avoiding naming specific political parties.)

I would have liked to see more experimentation on price transparency.

Totally agree about price transparency. Everybody but the people in the medical system who benefit from opaque pricing should be able to agree with this.

I don't think my comment was partisan but it was a description of the last 10 years. Republicans voted to repeal Obamacare several times a year but never introduced anything for improving it. And now that they are in power they seem have no idea how to proceed.

I am not saying that Obamacare was a good law. Actually it was pretty half assed but it could probably be made to work with some changes. I would have loved it opponents of it would have introduced steps for improvement but they never did.

If we avoid finger-pointing it is easier to find common ground.

I like the concept of the ACA as integrating markets and competition, as opposed to price fixing. Healthcare is a terrible example of market failure which requires some amount of regulation -- I wish we could iterate on which regulations were worthwhile. Instead we have this all-or-none regulation-vs-no-regulation. :(

How are facts partisan? It's been the stated party platform from the moment it became law.

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