Then, the free market could do what it does best....compete for our business. One real nice option I'd like to see is health-care clinic style where people without insurance could choose an inexpensive first-aid option, if that's their choice. To be blunt, those who didn't get insurance and can't afford any more than that risk not getting a medicine they need. Some might feel it's better to take that risk than to be paupers because of health care and health insurance for their whole lives. Some might even decide to live healthier life styles if the responsibility is on them. Some might only get accident insurance. It's their choice.
I don't want the feds controlling my body. That's really what it's all about for some people.
Obamacare should be completely killed off and buried. Every last inch of it.
We have those clinics, they’re called community clinics and funded by a combination of local, state, and federal funding, plus charitable contributions. They’re the most cost effective way of providing primary care to the poor, and they get like no publicity.
Unfortunately, we also have a law, left over from the days when our cultural norm was that you only went to emergency rooms in an emergency, that requires an ER to treat anyone who shows up with anything without cost when they can’t pay for it. If that legislation doesn’t get narrowed down and liability limited so an ER can offer a 24 hour “drug store-type” low cost primary care office and refer those with the sniffles to it, health care costs are not going to be reduced.
I think the pre-existing condition problem stems from the non portability of work based coverage. if you lose your job and try to get insurance with a condition, the plan may not cover your current issues. people will wait and not sign up until sick is not a pre-existing condition per se but should be handled by a risk pool. I think car insurance puts you in a high risk pool initially if you haven’t had it for a period of time