"General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
President Ronald Reagan at the Berlin Wall, June 12, 1987
IDIOCY!!!!!
This thread is a fun read....
I will be polite because I think you are a good counter point to many on this board. But, the fact that you made this argument makes me question your claim of 20 years in healthcare. In that time, I would assume you would understand the different facets of insurance. Fan lays them out plainly.
Second, single payer is the way to go if you are a healthy individual but certainly NOT if you work in healthcare.
I'm clueless about ACA too - it's an implementation detail to me. I don't care if healthcare is fully private or fully socialist and I don't care which party is claiming they invented it. Bottomline is how much does it cost me and how good are the benefits and service. Over the last couple of decades, my costs have gone up every year more than inflation and the service has been chipped away at. This new plan may not help, but the old one needed some work. Sometimes, I don't think the politicians want to improve things - they just want to win the battle with the other guy.
21 years. 3 degrees.
My point is that we were all dealing with the effects of people not having insurance. The initial plan was designed by the heritage foundation and implemented by Romney. Hardly a socialist foundation. Medicare is much more socialist in nature.
Put a lid on it! Kiss it goodbye. We gave it away, and apparently thought it made sense to do so.
I guess Justices Scolito and Thomas little private meeting with the Koch brothers didn't turn out so well.
The Supreme Count didn't just say Yes, they said HELL YES ! 6 - 3 Not even close.
Congress can improve the ACA if they choose to but I'm sure not holding my breath on that happening.
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BOY HOWDY !!!!
People still don't have health insurance. And, it's cost is still higher with a narrower set of doctors to see. And, the poor are still using the emergency room.
What ACA did was drive smaller health insurers out of the marketplace and force people to pay for coverages they don't need. A win-win for the largest insurers.
"General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
President Ronald Reagan at the Berlin Wall, June 12, 1987