However, a very fine example of stupid would be the Affordable Care Act. A badly thought out idea, mixed in an impractical implementation, wrapped with unobtainable goals. We do need to fix health care, but this plan is stupid.
Despite the fact that is is working quite well in states that have their own exchanges (mine for example)... you must be right. IT MUST BE "STUPID" - I excitedly await YOUR brilliant solution...
Actually Gia, I hate to burst your bubble, but the "self financing" idea of the ACA is already in a death spiral, which was predicted by every economist that was asked about it.
The only way national health care could work would be as a one payer system, which is political poison. So in the foreseeable future, nothing is going to happen that works. The reasons are simple, and I'm a prime example.
I'm a student, my wife works and I have my own income, yet my taxable income is BELOW the level that the system will subsidize ANY part of my premiums. Under ACA the premiums for the lowest level of care would be $684 a month, with an $8000 deductible.
Now considering that the government standards say I'm in the group the ACA is designed to help, how do any of those numbers make even basic health care affordable?