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Originally Posted by CaptainHaplo
If you grant that the ACA is "worse" - then repeal is at the least a start to help the situation compared to what it is today. Maybe not help from where it was - but we don't live in the past - we live in today. Making tomorrow better than today is helping the situation.
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I didn't grant it was "worse", I just said it might not be "any better". The way I see it the previous system (or lack thereof) was just as unworkable if not more so. Just because the life boat (O
bama-Boat?) is ill designed and taking on water that doesn't mean we should all jump into the raging sea. Repeal gets rid of the popular things about the ACA along with the unpopular.
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Health Care reform is simple - its called common sense.
What should be done is the following...
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1) The same private sector that has caused costs to rise by leaps and bounds every year? The same market where it's more profitable to treat the symptoms instead of curing the disease? The ACA is a response to a problem, a
real problem, a problem that the American people want addressed. It's flawed for sure but so far I am not convinced that it is any worse than what we had before.
2) Might be a good idea though I can see how it would end up with patients unable to get adequately compensated for bad medical care.
3) So instead of underfunding them you prefer the poor and elderly go completely without medical care? Maybe we should just set them out on ice floes and be done with it.
4) A good idea that should be implemented whether or not the ACA is repealed.
5) 6) Sounds like you're asking drug companies to spend gobs of money on research and development but then let anyone who can mix chemicals in some foreign sweatshop steal all their profits. What would be the motivation to come up with these wonder drugs in the first place? What is the likely market response to taking the profit out of something but none of the liability or risk?
7) Problem here is you don't differentiate between can't and won't. While I might sympathize (to a point) with your feelings about the latter, I think a nation that would not do it's duty to care for the former should be ashamed of itself.