If we want comprehensive healthcare available to everyone, then I don't see any alternative to insurance, either private or government.There're only two ways of achieving full or near full coverage, a mandatory insurance requirement or government provided universal coverage. There wasn't sufficient support in congress for government provided universal coverage.Obamacare as promised has reduced the number of uninsured, 18% to 12% over the last 2 years. The CBO estimates it will level out at about 9% in a few years.Lame Straw Man. No one has ever claimed "there was nothing wrong with the old health insurance system" but O-Care is a poorly conceived and poorly launched stab at fixing the problem.
Shoving Obamacare down the throats of Americans has not only had serious negative unintended consequences, it is running into resistance, rejection and cost-overruns at its most basic level.
Furthermore, early data shows many of those who have bought into it already had health insurance meaning many of those it was intended to help - the uninsured - are still uninsured.
Shoving Obamacare down the throats of Americans has not only had serious negative unintended consequences, it is running into resistance, rejection and cost-overruns at its most basic level.
Furthermore, early data shows many of those who have bought into it already had health insurance meaning many of those it was intended to help - the uninsured - are still uninsured.
"Nearly half of the 23 non-profit insurance plans created under Obamacare in 2011 at a cost of $2.4 billion have announced they will close by the end of the year.
Utah’s Arches Health Plan on Tuesday became the 10th health insurance co-op to announce that it was closing its doors. The move comes soon after the Obama administration’s decision on Oct. 1 to provide just 12.6 percent of the $2.87 billion that insurers were seeking to offset losses caused by unexpectedly high coverage costs."
Nearly half of Obamacare co-ops are closing
There are a number problems with Obamacare that can be fixed and eventually will be.
5 Ways Obamacare Can (And Should) Be Fixed
It's the basic premise of ACA that needs fixing, namely that the way to goal of health care reform should be to force everyone to buy insurance.
Right. The basic premise of ACA was that the purpose of health care reform wasn't to address health care inflation, but to get everyone on the sinking ship of "insurance". Insurance (in particular, too much insurance) was, and remains, the problem. It isn't the solution.
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If we want basic health care available to the poor as a government service, there's no need for insurance. We could do it locally, with local control and local taxation, like we've done with primary education. But this belies the true purpose of ACA - to bail out the insurance industry.
It is an unspoken fact of our federal government that major policy initiatives don't go anywhere unless powerful lobbying interests make them happen. That's why nothing happened to address health care "reform" until the largest insurance companies saw an angle.