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NorthernExposure

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There are many problems with our health care under Obamacare


Not a comprehensive list but here are several:

(1) Our health care costs are still about 50% higher on a per capita basis than any other country in the world.

(2) The influx of patients not previously insured has delayed access, especially to specialists. A similar thing happened in Massachusetts after Romney extended insurance to everyone.

(3) There has been no mechanism to prevent the monopolization of hospital services, so we have seen places like Mass General eliminate the competition by buying them, which has the effect or reducing choice for patients and increase costs.

(4) There has never been a truly functional marketplace for health care, and while some of that is endemic to health care itself -- it's not the same walking away from a doctor as it is walking away from a car dealer -- Obamacare has failed to do much to improve that marketplace.

I could go on but I think you get my point. But to borrow a medical analogy, just because a system has many failings does not mean the every remedy will make things better. Bleeding patients was standard until the late-19th century even though that treatment caused more suffering, not less. It is in that sense that I oppose efforts to simple repeal Obamacare simply because it is politically expedient for some to do so. Both the House bill and iterations of the failed Senate offerings would take a problematic health care system and make it worse -- none of those partisan bills would change the core problems in the system and all would reduce access and further inflate costs.

(In response to this post by Oregon Hoo)

Posted: 07/28/2017 at 3:18PM



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Coward-in-Chief begins his Twitter rant; I respond -- NorthernExposure 07/28/2017 06:58AM
  What makes Trump a coward? ** -- Hokieesith 07/28/2017 2:29PM
  I answered your question one minute before you asked it -- NorthernExposure 07/28/2017 3:06PM
  In what ways is Trump not a coward? -- NorthernExposure 07/28/2017 2:28PM
  Well said ** -- 111Balz 07/28/2017 6:21PM
  This just seems like an unhinged rant. ** -- Hokieesith 07/28/2017 3:12PM
  Easy, he's going against the establishment grain. -- Hokieesith 07/28/2017 2:32PM
  Uh, no. Don't do that. ** -- SportsWar  07/28/2017 5:30PM
  Health care in the U.S. and Canada rank near the bottom -- NorthernExposure 07/28/2017 3:01PM
  Heck that's going on in this country in my area! -- Oregon Hoo 07/28/2017 11:50AM
  Or you could just go screw yourself ** -- 111Balz 07/28/2017 10:22AM
  Donald's worst week ever. -- Chuck Taylor 07/28/2017 09:29AM
  Warning- this won't be a very constructive post -- Capital City Hoo 07/28/2017 08:58AM
  You got him. ** -- ryno hoo 07/28/2017 08:39AM
  Good morning liberal. ** -- ryno hoo 07/28/2017 09:08AM
  LOL- how do you know RINO isn't at home? -- Capital City Hoo 07/28/2017 09:29AM
  Sorry- meant for RQ ** -- Capital City Hoo 07/28/2017 09:30AM
  How's that morning coffee we paid for? ** -- WahooRQ 07/28/2017 09:09AM
  Folgers. Tastes like crap. ** -- ryno hoo 07/28/2017 09:51AM
  Put some Coffee Mate in.** -- hoodeyo 07/28/2017 10:11AM
  Damn Dude. Playing hardball. ** -- Shenhoo 07/28/2017 10:18AM
  Don't forget the Sweet & Low. ** -- hoodeyo 07/28/2017 10:29AM
  Re: If you get a chance, could you copy and paste? Work firewall -- NorthernExposure 07/28/2017 07:27AM
  That is a reasonable perspective -- NorthernExposure 07/28/2017 3:44PM
  I think everyone in Congress, House and Senate, needs to read -- hoolstoptheheels 07/28/2017 08:42AM
  Meaning if "people agree with me, they are on more solid ground" -- hoolstoptheheels 07/28/2017 11:12AM
  Im not entering a negotiation with the statement -- TomKazanski 07/28/2017 1:26PM
  Well Tom, I'd put it a little differently. -- hoolstoptheheels 07/28/2017 3:28PM
  But how much difference does funding really make? -- Faz d. Hoo 07/28/2017 10:22AM
  Hear hear! And not limited just to healthcare.** -- WaxHoo 07/28/2017 08:57AM
  Good stuff NE and thanks. watch your back! :>) ** -- 111Balz 07/28/2017 07:35AM

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