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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Dope1   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: The Affordability Tour Kicks Off
Date: 12/11/25 2:41 PM
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ACA was designed to fail but was budgeted/structured in such a way that the 10 year projection of costs would pass muster with the CBO. The plan was designed so costs would explode after about 10 years but by then ACA would be so interwoven into the health care and health insurance system that the transition to a single-payer plan would be more or less inevitable.

That seems to be what is happening right now, since we are just past 10 years since ACA started in 2014.


Yup. The democrats have always wanted government control of healthcare, and now they're going to use this to push for single payer even though they know we'd have to massively increase taxes and spending for it.

But they don't care. If this is something they can win elections on, they don't care about how much damage they do.

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