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Originally Posted by Robyn55
The ACA is going down in flames - and will be dead IMO in a year or so. First it was all the health co-ops - like those some people here are in - going belly up. Today - UHC announced its dismal results this year - and pretty much indicated it will probably drop out in 2017. We're not talking about big profits. Or any profits. We're talking about outfits that are losing money hand over fist. Which isn't sustainable. Robyn
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This may be true- BUT, then what happens?
Remember, we were paying a "break the bank" 8600 per person per year in 2006 - and people were gettingh dropped, going bankrupt from medical bills and being turned down for pre-existing conditions.
Make no mistake about it. This is a fight - but "the people" do not have the same interests as United Health Care - whose CEO retired with something like 800 MILLION dollars. It takes a lot of overcharges to add up to that kind of money.
We need total health care reform. When the poll numbers on the ACA were being taken they fooled a lot of people, because only 40% or so for "for" it. BUT, another 25% wanted something stronger and deeper! That means they wanted single payer, medicare for all....not that they wanted to continue to be fleeced by the insurance and medical companies.
The ACA and RomneyCare etc. are giant compromises which attempt to keep the medical and insurance profiteers happy...to some extent. At the same time they try to stabilize rates.
BUT, as I said before, Capitalism - unchecked - will sell you the rope to hang yourself with. These companies don't care if our costs are twice what we can afford....and twice that of the rest of the civilized world.
What we need to do - and won't - is just follow the lead of Germany, Switzerland and others who have already went through this. But America is controlled largely for the corporations as opposed to for the people...so I don't have much faith.
We've let medical costs virtually bankrupt us as a country - and yet we desire higher rates (which will happen without a lot of government intervention)?
Our economy cannot be sound if we are spending 18-20% of our GDP on Health Care. It's just too much and so requires us to borrow, go bust, etc.
I hope someday people realize this - and what must be done to fix it.
This hope was contained in a Churchill quote "Americans will always do the right thing - AFTER all other avenues have been exhausted".
So true. I fear that we still have false avenues to exhaust before some future generation gets it.
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