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Because it doesnt cover everything. But the vast majority of Americans support it, because they know the alternative is terrible. Remember when there was no Medicare? That sweet air of freedom is not great when you are dying at age 67 because of cancer and you dont have the money to pay for treatment. Insurance companies are designed to make a profit, and they dont make profits on very high risk elderly people. Millions will die if you get rid of Medicare.
Interesting viewpoint. The majority of my family has already passed away from cancer. Although I'm sure there's someone who's 67 and will receive treatment for cancer and actually survive, everyone in my experience trades a sooner death for a longer surgery/chemo/side effects/constant pain--and then die anyway.
I'm certainly not advocating that older people don't get medical care. I'm just pointing out that it's not the magical cure that people still seem to think it is.
I'm in a weekly social group of mostly over 60 women. Health and medical care is a constant topic--and "Medicare won't cover it" is a near-constant lament with "the doctor said I just have to live with it because I'm older" a close second.
Medicare isn't really that great to begin with--although it's better than VA Care, the other magical government medical program. I shudder to think of Medicare-for-all.
17th Obamacare Co-Op Exits Due To "Hazardous Financial Conditions" - Only 6 Left
Health Republic Insurance of New Jersey is folding after the state’s insurance commissioner put the Obamacare co-op in “rehabilitation” due to its hazardous financial condition. The co-op had a liability of $46.3 million under the Affordable Care Act’s risk adjustment program, according to the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance. The closing will force 35,000 customers served by the New Jersey co-op to find a new plan in 2017. The co-op was initially awarded $107.2 million in taxpayer-funded loans in 2012 and received an additional $1.9 million in 2013.
The New Jersey co-op is the 17th Obamacare co-op to collapse, joining other co-ops that have failed including two in Oregon, one each in Illinois, Connecticut, Arizona, Colorado, Kentucky, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Louisiana and Utah, as well as a co-op that served both Iowa and Nebraska.
Obamacare is the REAL October surprise. It doesn't work, it has cost Trillions and the sticker shock right before the elections will be a major wake up call.
You do know that was the plan all along right? The government broke it beyond all recognition, so the government could fly in and fix it!
The goal was to give us all just one choice.
If you've noticed, (housing market, college, healthcare, war on poverty, war on drugs) every time the government gets involved in the name of helping the poor they always make it worse, then yep, they swoop in to say they are here to save the day.
Its not just the increase in cost, its the lack of infrastructure to accommodate this system.
Healthcare debates never end well on forums.
I just say, you get what you voted and paid for, and its only getting costlier.
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