going have to back all the way to 1986 and EMTALA , the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act to reform healthcare. It’s why every credible answer to healthcare coverage included individual mandates from the Heritage plan that led to Romneycare and Obamacare to account for the ‘freerider’ effect.
Maybe. I do know we need to do something different though. Employer based health care/ACA exchange through for-profit companies sucks.
Yeah, you got yours, to hell with everybody else. I got it
Very few bills get vetoed when there is no super majority. Ask yourself why that is and then apply it to healthcare. With a supermajority in both houses, they could ram through Obamacare even with Trump as president.
1 Like
Which could happen in a midterm election bloodbath.
1 Like
obama fixed it and and its been tweaked to its present form.
no need to fix anything.
Allan
its easier to say we need something different.
its a lot harder to come up with a plan that pleases all constituencies in the United States.
hell still awaiting the great plan from our esteemed POTUS
10 years and counting…….
Allan
I hate to say this but I’m moving into that direction…but you have to give individual discretion so they can shop for best care/prices.
How do we do that?
2 Likes
Then tell your idiots to open the government.
1 Like
They have been working on “health care” for the same amount of time it took us to go from Kitty Hawk to Apollo.
Ask yourself why that is.
Public system that allows for a strong private sector insurance market. It would be tough without it being uber expensive but it will work for a few generations until people completely start relying on the public system and the private system will be for the very few.
No.
That’s pretty much whst you have now.
better than the non existent trump fix.
Allan
Weve all heard of critical thinking. This is hypocritical thinking…Im good with my benefits. Screw others. I got mine…right?
He fixed nothing.
Trump took away the unConstitutional part.
well except more people (children included) now have healthcare insurance due to his ACA.
its not perfect but it was a plan that could pass congress.
Allan
Ai says
“Before the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2013, the uninsured rate was about 14.4%, while by 2023, the uninsured rate had fallen to a record low of around 7.9%, which is less than half of the pre-ACA rate. This is a significant increase in health insurance coverage, largely driven by the ACA’s provisions like Medicaid expansion and tax credits for private insurance.”
Allan
1 Like
Nope. I’m just thinking that perhaps Medicare for all might be a good idea.
Oh, I misunderstood where you were coming from. I just started a job consulting with a major insurance/medicaid provider, and I would agree. Except not at a federal level. It would have to be done at the state level with each state managing its bucket of money…and as you know, Medicare is not free…you pay some of your expenses right? So while I have in the past been opposed…nationalized HC is notnthe way. It would collapse under the weight of 375 million people. But on the smaller state by state level…i would be for a Medicaid or Medicare for all option.
1 Like
