Why would anyone gloat over the ACA remaining unfixed?
Why would anyone want the POS AHCA bill to have been passed?
As expected, Trump is now saying Democrats must be part of the process. Hopefully this means that we can now get a true bi-partisan fix of the existing law or repeal and replace with something better.
The Republican plan was repeal and make worse. It died (thankfully). Now maybe we can get a real plan that wont result in something like 20 million people losing coverage.
(no message)
A fix is needed, I am decreasingly optimistic that it will happen.
I have plenty of horror stories from the pre-ACA era.
Also, I've been on record from the beginning that I don't like Obamacare...mostly b/c I despise the health insurance industry as a whole.
That said there are obvious things that can be done to fix the current problem. I think 2 items alone would fix most problems, 1) remove the mandate; 2) add a low-cost (bare bones plan) public option. With the low cost public option, the subsidies would go straight to the people that need them, and not through the for-profit insurance bureaucracy. The for-profit insurers then also don't have to take on as many high-risk individuals as they will be on the public plan.
One or many of you are going to respond with, the gov't sucks at everything - please don't. I just makes you look like a shill and stupid.
The public option preserves capitalism and forces insurers, hospitals and doctors to lower their costs in competition = lower their costs and provide better care. As of now they act in unison as if a monopoly. There is no incentive or reason for insurers and hospitals to lower costs - they will charge whatever they think the citizen can barely afford.
I've never said the gov't sucks at everything. I actually want single-payer, gov't run HC like the rest of the civilized world.
to me by calling me out on the Gov't doing anything.
Sorry about that.
Along with contrary Republican's (contrary to working on something much more meaningful - remember, R's said they wanted HC reform too) they passed a very flawed bill. Republicans in their hate for Obama-anything fought tooth and nail to stop Obama making meaningful HC reform so that is how it was created - you remember "death panels" - "kill babies" - "taking away Medicare" all sorts of bull shit from the R's framing any HC reform.
And when the R's were asked to put up a HC bill of their own they produced a 3 1/2 page multi-spaced document that said what Trump says today - "we will offer better HC to make American lives better" with no policy or legislation ideas. In comparison, the ACA was thousands of pages.
So yeah, the D's have no business gloating over this other than to say, "it is legislation that would be far worse than anything that has ever been passed on HC before. In fact, the Ryan bill is anti-health care. Gloating - no one should be gloating but we should all be pointing out, the R's have no interest in creating meaningful laws and ideas for American's no matter the issue.
It didn't and you can argue that the D's still own their own law more than the R's do.
making good policy and the R's for interfering so that no good and meaningful policy could be enacted. They obstructed any and all
positive work done in creating the ACA.
And it is a lie should anyone post, Obama didn't allow the R's into the process of creating the ACA and then strong-armed the ACA through both houses without the R's knowledge. The R's are at least halfway responsible for the crap that is the ACA.
They have always said that, especially because it was way too pro insurance industry and pro GOP, as President Obama went out of his way to placate moderate Republicans.
Both sides needs to put politics and optics aside, and make health care more competitive, more flexible and more cost effective.
Otherwise, incumbents will have to answer. Americans, at this point, could care less about the political scoreboard. They just want Congress to fix it.
(no message)
Bernie wants Medicare for all Americans.
Hillary was vague as usual on the topic.
(no message)
(no message)
(no message)
Bring on term limits and lobbying bans.
They both look awful.
In comparison, Trump can almost portray himself as statesman like.
His only real issue is the deal maker BS, but they come out worse than he does.
(no message)
Team Democrat and Team Republican remain strong in the the blind support department.
...without any knowledge of the character of the the person that they are voting for.
Long gone are the days when "Public Service" was comprised of the best and the brightest from our communities, to serve the common good of the constituents. One term and then they returned to private practice.
Now it's a career with the sole aim of feathering one's own nest.
(no message)
(no message)