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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls
Are you against the ACA and "make wall-street accountable" ventures or just there implementation?
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I have mixed feelings about the government getting involved in the insurance business. It's like anything else: some people benefit, others get shafted because they have to bear the cost. There are lots of people in their early twenties paying hundreds of dollars a month even as single payers, but their deductibles are so high that they would have been better off with a wider pool of choices pre-ACA. Or, if you asked them straight out, most of them would rather not get health insurance at all because it's such a financial liability. The bar is way higher now for your average business if they want to provide specific types of coverage for their employees cost-effectively.
As for Wall-Street...I think Obama and Eric Holder needed to penalize executives and companies like Goldman Sachs but at the end of the day they didn't have the balls to do it. Thus you have stories that came out later about
these guys getting big bonuses in 2010 and laughing all the way to Bank Of America.
I'm Libertarian and centrist in regards to most issues, but I lean conservative in regards to my views on excessive bureaucracy in government. I'd also love to see the incompetent IRS replaced by a more efficient tax code.
Someone told me at an event yesterday that they thought Mark Cuban would run in 2020. If I were going to put a billionaire in the POTUS seat, I think Cuban would have been a bit higher on my list than Trump.