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Originally Posted by mookiemookie
That's what insurance is. Cancel every insurance policy you have if you don't like it.
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Insurance is voluntary.
This law is idiotic, and is overwhelmingly negative. It also doesn't address any of the real problems. Forcing docs to see patients that they actually lose money seeing would be like forcing auto workers to build cars and pay them less than their lunches and gas money costs. Should auto-workers subsidize car prices by being paid less than their direct costs to get to and be at work?
This disincentivizes becoming a doc in the first place (negative incomes are unattractive), when a real problem is a lack of providers. Don't worry, we can mint more by lowering standards. Maybe the DO schools can crank out more poorly qualified "docs" to meet the need—don't see any too far after graduation, they are not required to re-certify like real docs.
Oh, wait, docs won't make negative incomes, they can't. In return, insurance must pay even more, which means massive premium hikes assuming your employer doesn't elect for the de facto public option in the plan of dumping people on medicaid. Have fun in the waiting room next to the guy in the orange jumpsuit and manacles.
All that without the entirely unknown stuff since most of the actual details (required to know
anything about how the bill really works, or costs) are left to unelected people to decide for us. Anyone claiming to know the real net results of this bill is flat out lying, since again, very little is actually written down (amazing given the size of the bill), and is to be added by people who no not represent the people at some indeterminate time in the future.
A good law would not be nearly as long, and would have everything written down so we'd know what to expect. Any bill—or process—to work on healthcare that is not 100% transparent, with clear language, and plenty of time for the public to actually understand the bill should have been summarily rejected.
Note that Obama said as much during the campaign (he must have been lying). he said the entire process should be televised on CSPAN. He said that any healthcare solution needed to be bipartisan, it was just too important to be partisan. He said there should be no "closed door" sessions. The actual bill was passed in a completely partisan way, was incredibly opaque with votes bought in closed door sessions, and no one in congress, much less lay people could possibly have understood the bill before it was voted on.