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Originally Posted by Aloha1
A couple brief points; First, what is ALWAYS overlooked in these discussions is the fact that Health Insurance IS NOT Health Care. We have a severe shortage of physicians in this country that is only getting worse. We need 10,000 more Physicians today and double that in 15 years. Why is this happening? Because older Physicians are retiring and not enough new ones are being trained. It takes a minimum of 12 years to turn out a newly minted Doc and these highly skilled life savers are not going to work for free. So, add another 50 million or so to an already understaffed system and what you get is not health care but triage which leads to substandard health care for all.
Another fact that is overlooked is that most of the other systems cited around the world as proof that government controlled health care works are generally countries with a fraction of the population of the U.S. Example New Zealand - great general care but population of 5 million. Same with any EU country. We have 325 million people in this country. You cannot compare us to countries with a fraction of that population.
Finally, the ACA was supposed to give INSURANCE to 30 million uninsured. Now all the Democrats are running from the program they supported lock, stock, and barrel. Why is that? Because the American people do not want to be told what to do, they want freedom of choice. And they have learned that health insurance is NOT health care.
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Note that the ACA has been gutted. Those are not my words but come directly from the Government.
We were told there would be an alternative, but still not forthcoming.
Adding that Bucco loudly and with great gusto opposed the ACA on this forum (see my past posts in that regard during that time frame), but certainly never expected it to be gutted without a replacement. I felt it would end up being modified, hopefully improvedon.