binary solo said:
snyps said:
I broke my toe last year, the emergency room cost over $3000, took 4 hours, and all i got was a piece of tape. But it's cheaper than $1200 a year for insurance i'll never use. I don't want to buy health insurance. I want care to become affordable like it was before insurance took over the industry. I want health insurance to go extinct. In the 1950's a doctor's visit was only a few dollars.
My President is going to force me to buy it.. never.
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That's why you shouldn't mind too much if Obamacare gets killed off because it's a really poor imitation of a proper public health system. If the Republicans were smart they'd leave this thing be, because if they actually defeat it the next time the Democrats take control they're likely to push something even closer to a public health system. If the Republicans are going to kill off something like Obamacare, the Democrats might as well push through something far closer to a true public health system.
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Seems unlikely. Though Obama used his presidential push to get healthcare passed. In recent years it's only gotten more and more unpopular with more and more people turning against healthcare in general.
The only reason Republicans are trying to repeal it plays so poorly is because everyone knows that pretty much isn't going to happen.
You are right though in that everyone should be pissed about.
Hell, i can't believe how many liberal people still support it after seeing groups turning against it.
For example... pretty much every labor union.
http://blogs.wsj.com/corporate-intelligence/2013/07/12/union-letter-obamacare-will-destroy-the-very-health-and-wellbeing-of-workers/
I mean
"When you and the President sought our support for the Affordable Care Act (ACA), you pledged that if we liked the health plans we have now, we could keep them. Sadly, that promise is under threat. Right now, unless you and the Obama Administration enact an equitable fix, the ACA will shatter not only our hard-earned health benefits, but destroy the foundation of the 40 hour work week that is the backbone of the American middle class."
are pretty dire words.
