1. Americans can't afford the standard of health care they've come to expect as their God-given right -- no matter how it is delivered and financed.
2. As a result of this, "health care" in the U.S. has become nothing more than a multi-trillion dollar game built around deluding Americans that they have a God-given right to force other people to pay their medical bills.
“My take on health care is probably different than most because it is rooted in two basic points:
1. Americans can’t afford the standard of health care they’ve come to expect as their God-given right — no matter how it is delivered and financed.
2. As a result of this, “health care” in the U.S. has become nothing more than a multi-trillion dollar game built around deluding Americans that they have a God-given right to force other people to pay their medical bills.”
Even if the points you made are true, Congress is not off the hook for a mess it made through legislation. The current situation is untenable, particularly for individuals trying to buy real insurance against a catastrophic event, not simply a plan to pay routine health care costs. I and millions of other Americans would gladly self insure if we could purchase the catastrophic policies the market used to provide, and which were available from multiple competing firms. Today, I am forced to buy a plan mandated by the government, which provides services I don’t need or want and is astronomical in cost.
My point is Congress doing nothing does not get marketplace functioning again. I can buy catastrophic insurance again fire, wind, hail, earthquake and other damage for my home while I take care of route maintenance myself. Why can’t I buy catastrophic medical care coverage and cover the routine costs myself?
I agree many have an entitlement mentality. Punishing those of us who pay our own way with excessive costs, which merely represent an additional tax because those extraordinary premiums are in effect at subsidy for others is another theft of private property by the edict of bureaucrats.
Prior to Obamacare, the cost of private catastrophic policies for those of us who are self employed was high but manageable. Today I pay six times the pre Obamacare price for an Obamacare bronze policy which provides maternity and pediatric dentistry benefits a 60+ year old male or female does not need. The irony is the high deductible on this Obamacare policy is approximately the amount of the deductible on my old pre Obamacare policy. In the pre Obamacare days there were 7 companies competing for my business in this state. Today there is only one private policy insurance provider who has what is in effect a government sanctioned monopoly. Yes, the provider gives generously to the campaign funds of politicians including my GOP representative in Congress and my two GOP Senators.
Unless there is relief soon from this extraordinary and punitive stealth transfer payment disguised as an insurance premium, many self employed who pay their own way will give in and join the chorus demanding single payer government healthcare.
I’m anticipating Nancy Pelosi will put Trump and McConnell in a vise by passing a healthcare bill in 2019. By campaigning on the issue in 2018, she’s already put them on notice.