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Originally Posted by
Villages Kahuna;512699
Bucco and Rubicon, I'm certainly not embracing ObamaCare, far from it. On numerous occasions here I've referred to it as a "Rube Goldberg bill". It was the product of virtually everyone getting what they wanted included in the bill. As was widely reported the day after the Affordable Healthcare Act was passed, "the champagne corks were popping on K Street".
What I am against is throwing the bill out, either by repealing it as Romney says he'll do or by Supreme Court decision tomorrow, without having a well thought out and debated comprehensive alternative. The Republicans want it repealed. Several states' attorneys general sued to have all or part of it thrown out because of expense being shifted to the states. That's the case the Supreme Court will decide tomorrow.
But even with the groundswell of people saying they don't like the program, NO ONE HAS PROPOSED A LEGITIMATE, WELL THOUGHT OUT, INTERNALLY CONSISTENT ALTERNATIVE!
There's no question that our healthcare system is inefficient, ineffective and unaffordable. That was the reason for ObamaCare in the first place. So someone tell me how throwing it out or having the Court throw out important parts if it without any kind of reasonable alternative is good for the country? Either will be great political fodder, but after whatever happens, we will still be left with the same problem, the same unsustainable situation the existed before the bill was passed a couple years ago. And a Congress who has little or no prospect of agreeing with one another enough to come up with a replacement!
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VK: Why do people continue to speak of our present system being inefficient ,ineffective and unaffordable. Compared to what? We have a health care system now that provides for the majority of Americans, a system that is innovative and can well equip doctors and hospitals all over the country. we have people from every country in the world traveling
here for specialized care.
The so called uninsured can and do find care when needed.
My daughter coordinates care via a very famous hospital in New York for children up to the age of 6. Ask her about the countless number of poor and not so poor families whose children get special care on the taxpayers dime. And I'm speaking of care in the hundreds of millions.
As I stated in a previous post here we do not need a new system of health care we just need a tune up on the present system.
When someone talks of our present system being broken they have bit on the usual political bait and the pols continue to reel them in.
Look for those magic political words that keep taxpayers/voters off guard "fair" "compassion", etc because what it all adds up to is give me more money and more power. When is it going to stop? It will not stop until taxpayeres/voters wise up and face the fact that politicians are their enablers .