Underhill
Active Member
well think about it dear, we have Medicaid Medicare Schip Tricare VA and intense regulation in each state while Canada has only one large bureaucracy. It figures that Cananda would be a more efficient socialism. Why on earth would our health care be so expensive compared to Cananda when everything else is the same price.
Did you think it was the Girl Scouts who controlled our health care system??????????????
Yes, but you still fail to offer a solution.
Are you suggesting everyone just pays as they go? 100% out of pocket? No regulations, a capitalistic free for all. Because I am sorry, but that is no solution. That means the poor, the sick and the elderly will all be fucked.
But cost will certainly go down. No doubt about that.
Bah... that's a dodge. We're not talking about helping the indigent. There are already safety net programs for them. If you want to beef those up, that's another discussion. Maybe we should.
So you are claiming everyone who needed insurance had it under the old system? Sorry but that just isn't true.
But 'reform' like PPACA forces all of us into into the corporate controlled "safety net" whether we need or want to be there. There's just no need to indulge those who want centralized control over everything under the sun.
Everyone needs it. The myth is that some do not.
Here is the deal. A young person who does not pay into the system still has to have some form of insurance at some point. Under the old system they could either wait until they need it, at which point it is insanely expensive or unavailable, or buy it earlier, which virtually none of them did since they didn't see the need.
Every plan, ever proposed, by either side of the aisle recognizes this problem.
I would agree Obamacare is not the answer in and of itself. It's a band aid solution. But your proposal to just leave things as they were is no solution at all.
There is a reason both Obama and McCain promised health care reform. The system was broken.