I understand everyone’s unhappiness with Obamacare, but frankly what we had before was also a mess.
I do not, see anyone moving to actually FIX things.
We just seem to waffle between one mess (pre-Obamacare) and another mess (Obamacare)
Either fix Obamacare, or leave it.
We cannot return to what we had.
Why don’t we let people buy their own insurance (allowing interstate purchases) and be done with it? Remember, insurance is suppose to protect people from catastrophic loses, not to pay for every little band-aide.
We paid too much?
Blame the insurance companies .. that were legislated into covering their own asses.
Health CARE is the BEST on the planet here.
Health care COSTS were unmanageable.
Doctors did their best by accepting cash payments for substantially less than what the insurance was charging/paying.
The outrage in America over obozocare has started a storm that will (I WANT to believe .. ) cure this 'problem'
We cannot return to what we had.
I disagree. The basic "parts" of Obamacare cannot be fixed; it is an inherently flawed system with far too much bureaucracy and red tape. The few "reasonable" mandates and concepts (pre-existing conditions, buying healthcare across state lines) in Obamacare, do not justify the bloat.
That said, we could return to what we had, AND improve it with just a few small ideas: tort reform, buying insurance across state lines, pre-existing conditions.
The system before sucked because there was already too much government in the mix. It was not horrible.
To ‘fix’ it:
1)Reduce Medicaid roles which increases demand and inflate costs, AND invites fraud/waste.
2) End tax subsidized employer health insurance which has grown third-party payer insurance programs. Same problem as above in a slightly different context.
3) Increase HSAs and make them more user friendly.
4) Strip unfunded mandates away from the health insurance market.
5) Tort reform.
5 ‘political third rails’ right there!
>> I do not, see anyone moving to actually FIX things.
Including you. You just bitch.
What’s your detailed plan to actually FIX things?
Let me get this straight. Because our healthcare system had problems before Obamacare, we should make it worse with Obamacare, until we can make it better. Sounds like a plan to me.
A true fix would require one of the large group of donors to take a hit ($$$$$). Probably more than one group, doctors, insurance companies, hospitals, trial lawyers...