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No, I don't want it to fail. But I think it probably needs a good tweaking. Some things right off the top: lower the number of hours to 20 for considering an employee part-time
Creating huge financial incentives for employers to reduce employee hours only has the effect of... making it more profitable to reduce employee hours.
let religious organizations opt out of birth control and abortion coverage;
Rights are individual in nature. Until you also allow religious individuals to opt out on faith-based grounds, you are still going to have lawsuits.
I think coverage for mental health and addiction is going to have to be changed. I'm sure there are hundreds of regulations in the background that most of us know nothing about that need changing; and that'll probably happen eventually.
Hundreds? Only hundreds?
I'd say.... "thousands" would be.... well, a not-too-terribly conservative estimate.
There is absolutely no way people could get coverage for pre-existing conditions without a mandate.
Sure they could - they are called "high risk pools", and can be operated at the State level.
But for the life of me, I don't know why they didn't just fold everyone into Medicare. Maybe they will eventually.
...Medicare is currently scheduled to go bankrupt in the 2020s. Every person hitting retirement age today is scheduled to outlive their benefits. Even back when our top tax rate was 91%, we did not collect anywhere near the revenue that we would need to "fold everyone into Medicare"; and attempting to do so would only have the effect of collapsing our social safety net.