re: Would you have supported a smaller healthcare reform act, specifically one that

I agree about the ACA, wfel. My biggest gripe with it is that seems to make permanent the connection of employment with health insurance. I started a thread a day ago on my views on the stupid system we have of employer-provided insurance.

Another fatal flaw, not so much of Obamacare specifically, but of reform in general, is the refusal to address the supply of doctors. If there is a shortage of doctors, insurance might prove useless to some people. The other side of the equation though is that increasing reimbursement rates of medicaid and ACA plans is that it massively increases costs.

The most cited stat on American health care is that we pay 17% of GDP. As far as I know, ACA does jack shite about that.

I would be extremely happy if we go back to the days before WW2, when healthcare as GDP was less than 6%, and even poor people had regular access to the ton doctor.