[Bobalu]

So the law says you must buy health insurance from these ‘providers’ or get fined.

The government assures the providers that if they lose money the taxpayers will make them whole.

This is a twisted form of single-payer IMO... a very poorly thought out single-payer system.

We have had a poorly thought out form of universal healthcare in the US for some time.. it was medicaid, medicare and the rules that anyone that shows up at an emergency room MUST be treated even if they cannot pay.

Then Obamacare comes along and makes the ill-conceived universal healthcare system we already had even worse by adding countless rules, regulations and fines.

Obamacare is a way to tax people who cannot afford to buy health insurance.

This mess all needs to be replaced by something better!

We shall always have some form of universal health care in the country.... we have had it for too long and there is no way to go back. It just needs to be less of a disaster than it is now. Maybe Trump can concoct something less bad?

[SkyPilot]

We have had a poorly thought out form of universal healthcare in the US for some time.. it was medicaid, medicare and the rules that anyone that shows up at an emergency room MUST be treated even if they cannot pay.

Exactly.

When I was a kid, my father had a employee insurance plan that covered some things, but we went to our family doctor for most medical issues. Most everything was handled in his office, even the time I needed 10 stitches in my arm. I still remember my mother writing out the checks in the doctor's office.

But those costs, while high, were not astronomical.

Today, we have hundreds of thousands of people employed (and profiting) as "middle men" in the health care industry. Cost are massively excessive. Fraud (due to billing the Federal government) is truly incredible to behold. Just as tuition went through the roof when the Federal government guaranteed Trillion in student loans, our health care has become unaffordable because the government is involved.

Almost every medical procedure you can imagine, from knee surgery to treatment for a skin ailment, follows the trend of the chart below:

The Illegal Invaders place a huge burden on the system as well, and they do nothing to contribute to it. We all pay for that, in both terrible service and increased premiums.