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Originally Posted by Guest
the old system worked quite effectively for most of the population. Yes it did contain and generated high cost health care.
And of course SOME with pre existing conditions had difficulty finding reasonable coverage (it was available).
And who said the ACA was going to eliminate the glut of uninsured at the emergency room. Those that do not have or do not want to pay for health care will continue to do so.
And some forget to note that I did specifically state FIX the parts of health care that needed fixing.
Using the word universal makes for pretty (they think) speeches.
It also is a platform for the single payer system the current aministration wants and is moving toward.
There STILL has been nothing done to get the ever rising costs and abuse of health care charges under some control.
Remember the $500,000,000 cost reduction in medicare that was going to offset some of the cost of ACA? How are we doing against that farsical commitment?
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Opinions on ACA and health care in general are really driven by whether a person is writing a check out their own bank account to pay for health care or if someone else is paying for it. I know mine is as I write a big check every month and also pay an ever increasing deductable. The free enterprise system works great in many areas but has been severely bastardized in medicine. When a working person cannot afford to pay for basic health care out of his wages, without insurance the system as is cannot be repaired. Private sector supplied health care coverage is disappearing rapidly and unless some of the obscene profit is taken out of health care everyone is in for a "come to Jesus moment".