[justjim]

An old thread that I found not only interesting but also informative. We seniors with our Medicare are sort of like a "snug bug in a rug". It's pretty easy for us to say let's abolish the ACA while we are "snug as a bug in a rug" with a hybrid form of Universal health care known to us as Medicare. Arguably we seniors are more healthy and are living longer because we have health care.

Now Medicare is not perfect and certainly ACA is far from perfect. Neither are substainable without some changes. Perhaps painful changes.

It's true our employers provided most of us some form of health care insurance during our working years. Because of great changes and global competition many of our former employers either went out of business or moved elsewhere some even out of the United States. In order to remain competitive in a global economy, many companies have cut back on benefits that includes retirement and paid health care. Even government employees are being required to contribute more to their benefits (especially health insurance) and Billions are owed to pension systems and are no longer sustainable. Pensions are definitely another topic for discussion in another Thread.

The next several years many challenges in health care are going to take place
and how we embrace the changes will determine what type of hybrid system we end up with here in TV and across the country. How we are going to pay for our health care is yet to be determined.