richardhutnik on 06 August 2012
| HappySqurriel said: While I'm against universal healthcare, having government provided health insurance for all citizens to cover non-preventable illnesses and injuries is reasonable ... After all, preventable illnesses and injuries represent the bulk of healthcare costs which means this insurance would not be that expensive; and since they couldn't prevent the illness or injury the moral hazzard is fairly minimal. |
If I recall correctly, the original Obama plan was something like this. Idea was to have goverment health insurance step in the gap. The GOP and insurance industry opposed it, so Obama switched to the Heritage Foundation Romneycare alternative, which is what the GOP was pushing when they were going against Hillarycare.
What we have now is a universal health care plan called "the emergency room". The Emergency Room plan is what is brought up whenever people discuss healthcare issues. The reply comes back, "You can always go to an emergency room, so why are you complaining?"
