Repeal of Obamacare

[Armistead]

Originally Posted by tater

Stop whining and go to med school, then work for free.

Nah, you'll just keep whining.

Government is the problem with our system to the extent there is a problem. 46+ % of US healthcare is already "government." The government care is why the rest is so FUBAR. The current expense of the US system is because those paying for insurance are also paying for the fact that the government systems pay too little. Fee for service, combined with artificial (and arbitrary) reimbursements means that there is incentive to "do more stuff" to the nearly 50% on charity care. That and CYA (defensive medicine).

Since no one is actually paying for the care themselves (insurance, gov care does), there is no incentive for shopping for cost, so there is no incentive to deliver savings. Look at cash-only medical practices, and you'll see that while they may keep their rates high, they always offer more and more for those rates. Better Lasik, more effective vasectomy reversal, etc. Lasik used to be really expensive. It's not any more. Why not? The government is not involved, that's why.

The current US system incentivizes all the wrong things, and almost entirely because of the government mucking around.

The reason 46% of care is already government funded is do to what, the corporate take over of healthcare making it unavailable to most. The question remains, which is worse, government of corporate? Most look at the past and track the history of how we got here...corporate control, political monopoly, regulation for mass profit over health...all pushed by the GOP, check to see all of these new members advisors...lobbyist for large firms.

Since the corporate takeover, business being business, it's not about health, it's about mass profits, all plans are related to profits. Like meds, we all know the goal of pharma is not to cure, it's to keep you as sick as possible, as long as possible on as many meds as possible. Because of Pharma's basic contol of the medical industry, that seems to be the goal. Americans prescription use is up 100% just in 10 years, including children. Course we see all the new diseases and pill commercials everyday.

Let's face it, we have a great way to fix a lot of this....preventive care, but you'll never see that thanks to corporations, not enough money in it.

What a crisis we're in today, a larger one is coming, the upcoming generation will see a mass increase of chronic life long disease due to being obese, lack of exercise, ect...Many already are. They say this will cost more than the baby boomers. 40% of kids today are just fat, compared to my generation, about 2%. Big Pharma is celebrating.

The biggest issue is health is something we all want, profit is what big business wants. Business will make profits at the expense of health. All the players in health want big profits, med profession, Insurance, Pharma, not to mention the lawyers that make billions off them all. When health fails, it overloads the system, so who pays for it...not the players, but the taxpayers.

Seems we have 3 choices, fix mass profit for health, taxpayers flip the bill or we just say what most in the GOP would prefer...Get sick, pay high cost until poverty and bankruptcy....then just die and go away, that is until a GOP member gets seriously ill without coverage.

They could fix it you know, but they won't...doesn't suit the special interest of either side.