Well I for one, am a Republican and I am NOT on the side opposed to Obamacare, because the option is currently not an improvement.
I am all for improving Obamacare.
But I am NOT for just repealing it. What we need to do, is maintain the protections for individuals, in Obamacare. Then if you want to also offer all sorts of things to Americans fine.
But there is a core constituency which needs to be protected. That was, with Obamacare.
Keep that protection.
Do NOT allow any GOP option, which withdraws coverage for the base.
That is important.
Obamacare allowed hundreds of thousands who were previously paying for their own health insurance to be added to the ‘Medicaid’ rolls. That means many who were paying for themselves are now getting their health insurance on the backs of hard working taxpayers. WHY? Obamacare is exponentially more expensive than previous health insurance was. Open up the free market and let people negotiate their own policies. Don’t allow the Government to order Senior citizens to pay for maternity care. Lots of ways to bring health insurance down......but nobody wants to do it.
Obamacare can’t be improved. The basic concept is flawed.
It is unconstitutional to force Americans to buy a product.
It is socialism to have healthy people pay more for less coverage so that sicker ones can get cheaper healthcare.
Obamacare substitutes insurance for care and the necessary larger deductibles bankrupt ordinary Americans.
Obamacare mingles the very large population of average Americans that can pay for the level of health insurance they want with the relatively much smaller population of impoverished and uninsurable Americans and in doing so is terrible for both segments. Than doesn’t even account for the hours lost signing up, the surprise “you need to give back your subsidy” and the bureaucrats deciding what care you can receive.
Medical insurance, for the average American would be much less expensive with HSA plans and the ability to tailor to the time of life & circumstances. Also cheaper with competition and without the need to support Obamacare generated layers of bureaucracy, in the doctors office, the insurance company & in the Government. Obamacare is truly an abomination feeding on the life blood of our country.
The Obamacare law has no protections for individuals, just words. Care has been lost and fragmented. We need to get the Government out of individual health insurance just like car insurance. Let the Government concentrate on a saftey net for the poor and the uninsurable and on credits that individuals close to the poverty line can use to pay for private health insurance.
Those are the things that the current health care act is attempting to do. The Government involvement is the problem not the solution. The responsibilities for the saftey net should be devolved back to the States in graduated steps over a 5-10 year period so that the savings of rolling back the regulations & encouraging competition will allow the States to carry the cost.