“You may not agree with Obamacare, but we did nothing to fix the system before it arrived.
Our healtcare system is badly broken.”
What specifically, do you think must be fixed?
I think people who have had ongoing healthcare insurance uninterrupted, either by their employer or otherwise having insurance uninterrupted, should be covered. Ongoing. Regardless of whether their employment means they change healthcare providers.
That is not the way it is now. At least it wasn’t until Obamacare.
If you had insurance with a provider you could encounter an issue which would be covered by the current insurer, but which would not be covered by any future insurer. Which is what I object to.
Once you have insurance, it should be yours. And you should not be dropped from it, if you maintain coverage.
Ever. For any reason. If you get laid off, if your company fires you, if you change to another employer, you should keep your insurance regardless. Forever.
If you maintain coverage. Your insurance should maintain coverage.
That is my big beef, and it was not the case prior to Obamacare.
That is now the case, with Obamacare, and it is the reason I am strongly defending it.
If you’re suggesting we need to “fix” Obamacare I don’t have any reason to oppose that, unless you’re suggesting we return to the previous mess.
I don’t at all support that.
Not at all. If you maintain insurance, you should maintain coverage.
Period.
It should not be dependent upon keeping the same company. Jobs are too uncertain for that.
Especially now, with more jobs being ever sent overseas.
We need to protect ourselves.