It will be interesting to see what happens as the reality of this sets in, and as people are spending thousands, tens of thousands per year more than now, and have NO medical care.
BO did not anticipate this. I wonder credibly if he truly, his spoiled self, has no earthly idea how money works, and he thought that people like Bush just ran around telling everyone what to do, eating and travelling, and things all worked out.
But single payer will not happen. this is it. It just unravels from here.
THe government medical systems, Germany, England and Canada, they are not healthy. Our own, the military medical system is often joked about, the VA was always considered inferior, and those do not operate very well. Not like private medical care, here. They are huge and inefficient and bad doctors can thrive for twenty years in those systems. The patients are healthy, in the active duty side, young, and their spouses and kids, ditto. The VA, lots of elderly and sick, but it is a limited population. And they, former military, combat vets, are the most, by far, patient people in the country. They show up, get told it’ll be a 5 or 7 hour wait, and they smile and sit down and wait.
And those tow are systems with doctors. The military pays for the education of these doctors. They can do so.
Now, with a $17 T debt, growing, and this fiasco costing billions just to run, that’s before any medical care takes place, there is no medical school tuition coming from anywhere, no doctors are going to want to be a part of this, and med students are changing their minds.
Ann is right about the Shorts clad doctors.
This is not going to work.
Any one of those politicians could use their brain and see what is happening, and fix it, at least campaign against it.
But no one, after six months of implementation, is getting care under this. THe delay is a sign to me that they are even putting off single payer. The medical community willing to go along with this, and I haven’t heard of anyone, will be as competent as anyone else who signs up to work for BO. they’ll be like biden, Pelosi, ryan, Reid, Cantor, Boner, and the secret service agents who got sent back home for drunkenness unless they were set up
If ACA fails, we get single payer. It's a lose/lose proposition. And most U.S. people don't have a clue how bad it is, and never will.
Wild guess: The GOP has already secretly promised the DNC that any Pubs running will not bring up the failings of obamacare or the 17trillion dollar debt.
The closest he ever came to a real job was when he scooped ice-cream for Baskins Robbins, and got fired after several weeks for giving free stuff to his friends. The start of the pattern.
I'm sure he did, just not so soon.
One of the main goals of ObamaCare was, in fact, to have this happen.
Oh, he has "an idea" ......
The real difference-maker is a simple motive:
HE HATES US.
Get it yet? It's all malice, nothing else. Malice, and the will to power, to put the American People in a subordinate, begging position ........... with an audience that Obama is prancing and dancing and performing for. An audience of America-haters.