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"The only advantage of obamacare is that if you cannot buy insurance yourself that easily with things like pre-existing conditions etc." It has vastly improved
by marincounty 11y ago
"The only advantage of obamacare is that if you cannot buy insurance yourself that easily with things like pre-existing conditions etc."
It has vastly improved the health care the poor receive.
I'm not a huge fan of Obamacare, but it is all he could get past the Rebublicans at the time. He tried to push for a sensable solution, but Republicans fought it. I am waiting for anyone to propose a better solution to Obamacare, but keep bill's core requirements.
As to what how for-profit insurance companies have explioted us, while blaming Obamacare; I hope there's a special place in hell for these heathens! In the original Obamacare bill there were measures that would limit rate increases, and out of pocket fees--the Republicans got rid of all of them. I recall them saying, 'Get ride of this language/requirement and we might pass it?"
What I am trying to say is get rid of Obamacare, but replace it with something better. I haven't heard any real alternative plans proposed by the Rebublicans? I though the the Rebublican Doctor(Bobby Jindal) would have a thoughtful, pragmatic plan--yea, he has a plan, but it just sounds like basically going back to the free market system we had before?
That worked so well?
- nsxwolf 11y agoI don't think what we had before could really be described as a "free market system". It was an employer-based healthcare system that shut individual buyers out of the only good deals, enacted by the government via the tax code. The new system is the same, except now there's no pre-existing conditions and the individual is forced to buy a plan. The plans themselves are the same crappy plans with a few tweaks. The consumer of healthcare is still completely disconnected from the price of the goods sold, completely screwing up market signals and making sure prices stay astronomically high. This is not a free market by any measure.