No, your health care system, paid for by the US taxpayer is quite fine. When are Americans going to wake up? Any health care the congress tries to force on the us taxpayer should also include members of congress.
“your health care system, paid for by the US taxpayer is quite fine”
You’re right! Nobody complains about the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) nor is it going bankrupt. This system, which essentially gives federal employees a voucher and expects them to shop intelligently in the private market, has worked without a hitch for 50 years! Remarkably, FEHBP does NOT impose a one-size-fits-all set of health benefits, nor does it include any public plan!
But rather than just give all Americans a tried-tested-debugged plan that has been shown over 5 decades to work remarkably smoothly, Obama wants to give us a completely untried system in which a way-too-powerful public plan (i.e., Medicare) “competes” against private plans. The system is nearly guaranteed to result in Medicare-for-all, which is just fine with Obama and his “progressive” advisors. Name almost any problem with the current US health system and it either was created by or aggravated by Medicare.
The direction we are headed is proof-positive that Obama is driven by ideology rather than evidence when making his policy decisions.