palou said:
It is involved in all the wrong places.
Republicans prevent the national program from developping further into something beneficial, and democrats refuse to give up on a dysfunctional system.
Both convinced that more involvment is necessarily going to make things worse/better, respectively.
Making the government the sole client in healthcare helps regulate a supply/demand curve which is generally moment to moment heavily skewed towards the producer.
Instead, the US decided to force everyone to buy their insurance privately, which does the exact contrary. |
Obamacare was not really dysfunctional.
It had issues because it was sabotaged by Republicans from 2012 until 2017 and still managed to slash filings for bankrupcy by 50% (which were overwhelmingly by medical bills). http://time.com/money/4765443/obamacare-bankruptcy-decline/
It could've saved US $2.6 trillion if it remained the same as of 2016 and we could've saved more if it was backed by everyone. http://fortune.com/2016/06/21/us-health-care-costs/
Remember that most red states refused to expand Medicaid. A political act no matter what people say.
