What universe are you living in? Set aside the fact that many people (including me and my family) lost our perfectly good health plans because they could not afford the B.S. mandates. Set aside the fact that most Americans are now paying higher premiums and higher deductibles for a reduced level of care. Set aside all of the other facts that resulted in the degradation of the U.S. health care system under Obamacare. The absolute tragedy of Obamacare, and any Universal Health Care scheme is that we are now a country in which the government can force us to buy a sevice, whether we want it or not.
A universe where the health care companies charge me for double or triple the price for medicines that I can get for almost nothing in another country. Karl Dinniger of the Market Ticker has long documented this. That's been true long before Obamacare came out.
The system is broken and has been broken.
I was speaking a simple truth.
You are also speaking another truth.
Both are true. That is exactly why I am saying we need to do neither (1) go back to the mess we had before, or (2) Obamacare.
We need a new approach, which will cover everyone.
We did not have that before. We need it.
It is that simple.
How do we build a system which provides the best, of both systems?