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Dont worry Trump will repeal Obamacare and great coverage will be just $19.99 a month. All the health insurance problems are Obama's fault since there were no problems before 2009.
Yes there were problems. Obamacare is not the answer. Obamacare was an answer to a question very few were asking.
When everybody's rates go up, you can lay the blame squarely at the feet of the greed of the insurance executives and Wall Street.
When nobody can afford insurance any more we'll be ready for single payer.
you dont think that perhaps the 2700 pages of bad law, and 21,000 pages of bad regulations might have something to do with this issue? us conservatives told you this would happen back in 2009, but you liberals would not listen to us.
we told you it was a bad law, and that NOTHING obama promised would happen. people lost their health insurance plans that they liked and could afford, and had to go to much higher priced plans they did want, and could not afford, with much higher deductibles, and mandates to pay for things they didnt want.
we also told you that there was a better way, mostly keeping the damned federal government OUT OF HEALTH INSURANCE, and leave it to the states where it belongs.
but nnnooooo you had to have obama and company screw up the health insurance system for everyone. well now you have the bad law, along with the rising health insurance rates that go along with it, and only democrat fingerprints are all over this. republicans wont even touch it because they dont want to get sucked into the bullcrap over the law.
it was designed to fail, and it is doing just that.
The Obamacare law mandates their maximum profit, something like 85 to 90% of the premiums need to be spent on medical care. About 4 points of that 40% are for operating costs and whatever is left is profit.
Obamacare was meant to be the first step towards single-payer. It was supposed to create single-payer for the working poor through Medicaid, but republican governors blocked the expansion. The expectation was that after we had universal coverage through the mandate, and single-payer for the working poor, universal single-payer would be an easier sell.
EDIT: it should be noted that the price increase in this article is due to insurance pulling out because of Trump threatening to stop payment. This price increase ball squarely on Trump's shoulders.
Obamacare was meant to be the first step towards single-payer. It was supposed to create single-payer for the working poor through Medicaid, but republican governors blocked the expansion. The expectation was that after we had universal coverage through the mandate, and single-payer for the working poor, universal single-payer would be an easier sell.
If the D's wanted single payer they should of passed single payer instead of something designed to fail.
If the D's wanted single payer they should of passed single payer instead of something designed to fail.
Something we agree on. I wonder if Daschle losing and then Kennedy getting brain cancer had something to do with that. Even then, I don't think the country would have been behind it. Thoughts are evolving that way kinda like they did with gay marriage. But it no longer seems like a hopeless prospect.
Then maybe they need to get out of the health business, and turn it over to the government. You know, the folks who run Social Security. And Medicare. Which every retired person in America finds completely satisfactory.
It's time for the USA to put people's health before corporate profits. Like evey other civilized country on earth.
Now that's painting with a WIDE brush with not a shred of data to back it up. Yep, we need another system with huge fraud,waste and heavy restrictions along with doctors/hospitals that are refusing to take it.
Yeah, it's perrrrrrrfect alright...
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Yep, we need another system with huge fraud,waste and heavy restrictions along with doctors/hospitals that are refusing to take it.
