The healthcare system was a mess BEFORE Obamacare became law of the land. Costs were escalating much faster than inflation. My profile page has suggestions on lowering the cost and improving quality of healthcare.
entropy12’s great suggestions and feelings:
“A cost effective universal healthcare should have these features:
1. 100% private health insurance, not run by government.
2. Ability to buy insurance out of state.
3. No mandate to buy government defined insurance coverage
if you are male no need for mammogram or pap smear coverage.
4. Catastrophic only health insurance available,
especially for younger folks, which is much cheaper.
5. Limits on mal-practice awards based on actual damage.
6. Availability of prescription drug insurance through a group policy.
7. Portability of health insurance when changing jobs.
8. Tax deductible Health savings accounts contributed by employer.
So you are in charge, not the insurance company or government.
Note that Obamacare expressly forbids majority of above items.”
“Without a universal healthcare, sick people wait too long to get tested and be treated early, and then the disease gets more advanced, costing much more to treat on an emergency basis.”
“I went through an emergency cholecystectomy surgery after suffering unimaginable pain episode. I will not tolerate any American citizen to be denied the same access I had to the nearest hospital, simply because he/she can not afford good health insurance like I had. Some form of free market, capitalist structured universal healthcare is a necessity for every American citizen. I am AGAINST any single payer healthcare. Just look at the fraud and cost of Medicare, which is a single payer system for people over age 65.”
However, my opinion is that there are pockets of Medicare fraud (financially aggressive specialty care firms + some doctors), but most doctors and all hospitals that I’m aware of are not abusing Medicare.
I believe based on my own personal experience that the mess became exponentially worse under Obamacare. That's when my health care and health insurance rates skyrocketed.
In the last two years alone, my prescription costs for example have more than tripled.
In one case, one medication I need that used to cost less than $5/mo. now costs well over $40. Why is that?
My "prescription" coverage isn't prescription coverage at all anymore. When I can go off-insurance and get several medications cheaper by using goodrx.com and my local Meijer pharmacy than I can by going through my insurance and CVS Pharmacy (which my insurance requires I use) what does that say?