2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Ten Reasons Why Hillary lost - And they are probably not what you thought [View all]NoGoodNamesLeft
(2,056 posts)There are a lot of states whose governors did NOT create their own marketplace because they were trying to block Obamacare entirely. I live in one of those states. The insurance offerings SUCK...and they suck bad. The costs for the premiums are high and sure, the tax credit would pay for that part...but the coverage was not good. The deductibles alone would prevent average people from ever bothering to use it. Not all states expanded Medicaid, either. In those states having those already high premiums go up even more when people already can't afford the damn deductibles made a HUGE difference. Hillary should have come out right away after the media started reporting the premiums going up and tell people she recognize this was a problem and she had a plan to address it and reassure people. Since Trump was promising to repeal it the people hurt by the rising premiums and outrageous deductibles most likely voted for Trump only because of their pocket book. Hillary never came out to address the issue and then shortly after that is when Comey came out about finding Huma's emails on that computer of her estranged husband. If she had of eased people's mind about Obamacare then the Comey letter would not have hurt as badly.