Originally Posted by ilovetv

Mandating that everyone gets an insurance card--either public or private--is not health care. Health care is a physician and other clinicians assessing one's health condition, diagnosing, and treating acute and chronic ailments.

Health care is not the ownership of a card that says somebody else will pay the bills.

The Washington DC politicians are doing nothing to assure that there are enough required residency training positions of new medical school graduates, so that there are actually doctors who can SEE all the people with that shiny new public or private insurance card in their wallets.

Instead, they have passed a 2700-page law containing everything but the kitchen sink, that puts us and our kids and grandkids in trillions of dollars of unfunded liability/debt, without increasing the already too-few required, residency-training positions needed to make even a DENT in the existing shortage of primary-care doctors.

As a Canadian supreme court judge stated a few years ago, "Access to a wait list is not 'healthcare'". And our politicians in Washington remain CLUELESS, because they know they can win votes from gullible people who believe their Santa Claus promises about "free" "healthcare" for all, when they're really talking about a free "card" with no MONEY behind it and no doctor to see you for even 2 minutes.