When I comment on posts about Obamacare, I suppose I should say something more on topic [it is just hard for me to resist slamming the Democrat's most stupid choice for president since Jimmy (the teeth) Carter -- Obama].
The reason fixing healthcare is so hard is because INSURANCE is the problem, not Obamacare or lack of Obamacare. Having insurance to fix a car wreck or replace a stolen car, or replace your home when it burns or gets flooded, is about fixing THINGS not humans. Fixing or replacing THINGS is a finite proposition and it does not involve loss of life or anything that important. Car or home insurance makes perfect sense and the THINGS being replaced can be replaced at a pretty reasonable price.
However, health insurance is a losing proposition. It could cost millions of dollars to fix a person, which is the very reason we hear talk of "death panels". I have personally know people who probably ran up over $100,000 in costs and then died anyway.
This is a modern problem that most of us did not have to deal with 50 years ago because the technology, the advances in healthcare were simply not available. (Please do not get hung up on the exact number of years ago. You know what I mean.) Great grandma just got old, coughed a lot, and died with her dozen children and their familys around her and caring for her. Nowadays, granny goes to a nursing home and eventually ends up at the hospital with tubes and machines hooked up to her, struggling to keep her alive another day or two, or maybe a month while the doctor and hospital bills pile up for the poor survivors, those one or two children who have to reconcile her debt.
Obamacare will not solve this problem no more than insurance solved the problem. Insurance just gave doctors and hospitals a blank check to do "whatever it takes" to keep granny alive. (BTW, grandpa probably quickly of lung cancer, kidney failure, a heart attack, or a stroke from all that hard work and hard living, so we will not worry about him here.)
Obamacare is just going to increase the size of the blank check ... or will it? When you think Obamacare (a government-run healthcare system) out to its logical conclusion, you see that covering just anyone will cost a whole hell of a lot of money. Ask Canada or England. Oh, everyone might get to see a doctor for the simple things, what we now do with a $25 copay and insurance. Even that will get more difficult because EVERYONE will be able to take their kid in if they sniffle or have a runny nose. The doctor's waiting room will soon look like a trip to the DMV or a trip to Walmart. We can only hope that every doctor's receptionist speaks Spanish or it WILL take all day.
And why do you think rich people from Canada or many other places come here to get their REAL healthcare? Because they can or because they have to? What happens when our healthcare here is no better than theirs? You can bet they our healthcare system is going to sink to the lowest common denominator.
Pretty soon, private hospitals will not be able to contend with all the government red tape. Sooner than you might think, we will only have government-run regional hospitals (think VA hospital). All doctors will have to work for the government because there will be no alternative, and there WILL be death panels.
Oh, you can call them whatever you want, but we all know that sooner or later healthcare will have to be rationed. Money will no longer decide who gets care and who does not. Let me clarify. How much money we have will no longer matter. It will be like trying to trade gold for food in the end times. Buy gold if you like, but you cannot eat it. Someone or a group of people will have to decide how much we (The People) are willing to pay to keep someone elses granny alive for that extra week or month or year.
Like it or not, a capitalistic system is the only way to maintain a healthy healthcare system. It is not the perfect solution, but it is the only solution. A government-run healthcare system will just be another government-run fiasco that is called a healthcare system. Some will probably be going to places like Mexico just to get immediate care even if it stinks.
I think we all know, deep down, that Obamacare is a sham and a bad thing. It is just that liberal, Democrats, and Blacks would rather drink poison than admit that Obama is a jackass who does not know his ass from a hole in the ground. Blacks especially would follow Obama and march over the side of a cliff just because he is supposedly Black. I know this sounds racist, but not nearly as racist as following someone simply because they are your race -- that is racist.
Obamacare is not likely to be repealed, but it is likely to be strangled until what little life it has runs out of it. That is, we can hope the Republicans have the intestinal fortitude to crush this pile of crap before it gets any further. We can also hope that Blacks will wake up and start thinking about our country instead of some jackass who is expoiting a drop or two of Black blood.
If it was up to me, the Republicans would read the Obamacare bill on the House floor in addition to the Constitution. If we are not willing to sit and listen to this 2000 plus page pile of crap, why should it be allowed to continue? For that matter, every bill they pass should have to be read on C-SPAN before they vote on it.
Canada, France and England pay less tax money than we currently do. So everything you've said is based on bullshit. The rest of your entire argument is built on a silly notion like that rich Canadians fly down here. That's not exactly true. More like freak Canaidans with freak problem come down here because a nation of 300 million has more facilities than one of 30 million. . .oh and Canada's health care system pays for them come here when necessary plane ticket and all.
Fine read it on the floor. Not like you'd understand it anyway. May as well read technical specs of an atomic carrier.