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It's nice to see Americans taking a constructive and critical look at the pitiful healthcare system in place.
Single payer healthcare for all.
Single payer healthcare for all.
I agree. There is no "market" in medical care.
If competition were allowed, prices would drop. Unfortunately I don't see a way out.
Insurance should only be for extreme circumstances, like heart transplant or some shit. Everything else should be out of pocket.
No thanks. We already know the free market is wholly inadequate to cover the healthcare needs of this nation.
There're things I like about it, but it does nothing to actually control costs.
There is no market price for anything medical except laser eye surgery.
Oh it's bloody hilarious when they say "the system is broken", and then go on to suggest some insane solution that a 6 year old could do a better job of for whatever they just said was broken. I didn't have insurance from after college all the way through my 20s. Only went to the Dr. once during that time, and it's pretty crazy to go to a Dr's office without insurance and ask them how much a visit costs. They have no idea and just kind of look at each other in confusion. There is no market price for anything medical except laser eye surgery.
There're things I like about it, but it does nothing to actually control costs.
Removing artificial restraints on insurance competition like the ban on interstate insurance sales will put a downward pressure on premiums.
That part seems like a no brainer for both parties.
http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/in...ill_to_re.html
U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Huntsville, introduced the bill Friday.
"This Act may be cited as the 'Obamacare Repeal Act,'" the bill states.
And the bill uses just one sentence to do it.
"Effective as of Dec. 31, 2017, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is repealed, and the provisions of law amended or repealed by such Act are restored or revived as if such Act had not been enacted," the bill states.
Muricans seems to half-ass everything these days. You enacted a half-assed universal healthcare system in the form of Affordable Healthcare Act (Obamacare). Your current administration made another half-assed attempt to replace it with a even more half-assed legislation (American Healthcare Act, aka Ryancare). You end up with broken systems that actually cost more in the end.
Pick a path and commit to it. Either go full single payer universal coverage or go free market.
I don't think so. It's the exact opposite of what he was saying on the campaign trail, then he told everyone to watch that Fox show where they called for him to step down.
I honestly think it was about ruining Ryan's political career. The Trump team wanted to make it look like he was giving an effort to appease everyone (Neocons) and let ACA collapse on its own weight. Now premiums will skyrocket and the GOP can do pretty much whatever it wants.
I don't know, just how I see it, could be wrong.