Posted on 02/21/2024 9:10:07 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
You beat me to it. LOL. I just posted a response to that very point.
How many more government fixes are needed???
Amazon now offers online medical care. For $30 you can get an email based visit or for $70 a skype visit. You can talk to someone within an hour. That didn’t happen because of a government program. The SOONEST I can see anyone who takes the crap obamacare we have in this county is JULY!!! Look how easy it is for someone to take their dog to a vet.
The whole problem IS the government sticking their grubby greedy fingers in the industry. Thomas Sowell said it best when asked about the republicans “repeal and replace.”
“When a doctor removes a cancer do you ask what he will replace it with?”
Well gosh, it doesn’t get more credible than that. 🙄
That’s not how Supreme Court cases work.
A party in the case that hinges on (for example) five key points will submit briefs that argue both sides of each point … e.g., “If the court rules that the ACA is a tax, then it is legal because of X. If the court rules that it is not a tax, then it is legal because of Y.” Etc., etc.
IMHO. The government providing health insurance for a it’s citizens is a good public policy. We all need health care and not everyone can obtain employment that provides it. But the ACA and Medicare requires that the recipient of health INSURANCE has skin in the game, so they just don’t waste valuable resources. The ACA has a large deductible($6k to $12k) with co-pays and Medicare Insurance has a 20% copay.
I do favor charging anyone that gets ACA Insurance through Medicaid a flat 5% income tax to the State and Federal Government to help defray the costs.
I paid all my life into Medicare Insurance and now I reap the benefits of those payments in my old age.
I don’t want to see people dying outside of hospitals because the hospital says they don’t have insurance.
IMHO. YMMV.
The ACA is a good example of how the Left plays the long game to win.
They took the short term political hit to build a permanent institution that would give them power in perpetuity.
Conservatives “won” office campaigning against the ACA.
“Conservatives” win meaningless elections while never changing the Institutions that determine the future of the country.
I liked my insurance. I wanted to keep my insurance. I wasn’t allowed to keep my insurance. None of my doctors or my local hospital will accept my Obamacare policy. So I got the cheapest Obamacare policy I could and pay cash whenever I see a doctor.
If you love lying in a hospital and having no specialist show up, you probably love 0bamacare. Costs have gone up, quality of care has gone down.
Insurance is not healthcare. Healthcare is provided by doctors and nurses. Insurance is provided by bureaucrats. We need to return to free market medical care without the involvement of the government-insurance-big pharma bureaucracy.
No agenda there 😏
“You Lie!”
How about I tell you this.
Obamacare was, and is, an Health Insurance Company bailout. See, before 2010, Health Insurances were operating at a 5% or less profit margin. That’s ‘failure’ for a business, and they were likely going to go under. The bill managed to allow them to increase the ‘risk’ of the patients to levels so that they could charge everyone for that ‘risk’. That risk force an increase in ‘slush’ in case they got burned. Then, BOOM, Health Insurance profits went from less than 5% to greater than 40% and everybody who was working paid 2X what they were paying before!!
So: 1) It was a Giant TAX on business and workers placed squarely by the people who would not work, and waited until they had a medical problem (like having a car accident then purchasing insurance). 2) Increased government involvement in health care and forced private practice physicians to adopt costly EMR’s and IT while they got pennies on the tens of thousands they had to invest. 3) It increased the power of Government, Health Care insurance, and Hospital systems. 4) It LOWERED the overall care for the average patient, and especially the average working person and family. 5) Roberts was right, it was actually a giant tax increase on people of low middle class, and single working parents who got health care insurance via work.
As I write this, there are probably more people THAN EVER that don’t have health care insurance because they don’t purchase it until they have a problem. The premise of coverage because people couldn’t get coverage with pre-existing problems became ‘get coverage when you get sick’.
Just once more the Government took something, spent trillions, and made it much worse......
“If you love lying in a hospital and having no specialist show up, you probably love 0bamacare. Costs have gone up, quality of care has gone down.
Insurance is not healthcare. Healthcare is provided by doctors and nurses. Insurance is provided by bureaucrats. We need to return to free market medical care without the involvement of the government-insurance-big pharma bureaucracy.”
Well…yeah, but then how are these people supposed to launder hundreds of billions?
The student loan deal went belly up. They’re scrambling on that. It’s headed south quick
It’s worse than that NN, the gummit crooks were taking money of my first paycheck in the 70’s and they still do it today whether you use Medikrap or not, plus you are forced on it if you decide to take SS. The crookedness goes on...
When the Kenyan Krap was passed I knew it was too late for the America that I knew way back and quickly came to hate the GOPe more that the rats and still do. The dems as you know are all socialists/communists and cannot be swayed - end of sentence, they are what the they are. OTOH the GOPe gives you a choice between soft socialism and commiedom, neither one is acceptable. They worked behind the scenes to pass that biggest piece of socialism in the history of the USA but exempted themselves - and the uniparty has won it all. Sad.
“6 in 10 hold favorable view of Affordable Care Act in new polling”
How about the 4 in 10 that actually have PAY for their insurance, rather than having the government pay for it?
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