What I know about Obamacare is based both on news analyses and my own experience in our broken health care system. No wonder the public is frozen in place, as Oct. 1st approaches and the roll-out of new health care options for Americans.
The incessant criticism from the radical GOP right, wrapped in the American flag (homophobia, guns, war-mongering, deficit bell-ringing) has cast a pall of political soot over everything. Most voters can't distinguish, because of that soot, what is good and what is bad for them. What I know from my experience in the health care system, and those experiences of families and friends, is that so far as health care is concerned, we can't do worse. And if Obamacare does better, it will be the most positive development in the United States since the civil rights movement took hold.
So the thought occurs -- listening to the GOP threaten to shut down the US government right around the time Obamacare launches -- what if in the month of October the new health care reform is wildly popular?
I hope that citizens like me -- especially those that self-pay -- quickly seek out alternatives to current and existing health insurance company plans.
I, for one, want health care reform to work. If there are parts of Obamacare that need to be improved, then it will be incumbent on Congress and the White House to make changes.
In the meantime, a public embrace of Obamacare would be one quick way to send a message to GOP leaders obsessively shoveling coal into our Christmas stockings.
The incessant criticism from the radical GOP right, wrapped in the American flag (homophobia, guns, war-mongering, deficit bell-ringing) has cast a pall of political soot over everything. Most voters can't distinguish, because of that soot, what is good and what is bad for them. What I know from my experience in the health care system, and those experiences of families and friends, is that so far as health care is concerned, we can't do worse. And if Obamacare does better, it will be the most positive development in the United States since the civil rights movement took hold.
So the thought occurs -- listening to the GOP threaten to shut down the US government right around the time Obamacare launches -- what if in the month of October the new health care reform is wildly popular?
I hope that citizens like me -- especially those that self-pay -- quickly seek out alternatives to current and existing health insurance company plans.
I, for one, want health care reform to work. If there are parts of Obamacare that need to be improved, then it will be incumbent on Congress and the White House to make changes.
In the meantime, a public embrace of Obamacare would be one quick way to send a message to GOP leaders obsessively shoveling coal into our Christmas stockings.
8 comments:
Well said to the naysayers. What has become of the Republican Party they are in shambles. Rubio is an embarrassment I hope someone runs against him.
You mean like Social Security? Or Medicare? Humm . . .
Health care is the most fraudulent field in America. Government forgot to address the fraud in billing practices of our medical system. The costs are made up depending who is getting the service. Insurance companies don't ask for fixed pricing because they are part of the fraud.
Yes the greed is so unbearable that it threatens to destroy our whole way of life. With greed unchecked everything you make will go to healthcare, and within the larger economy healthcare will be the dominant sector as there will be little for anything else. Than goodness for Obamacare, it will release money for families to do other things.
How can anyone embrace obamacare? Noone can actually tell me what it says. I can't read 1000 pages of lawyer bs to figure it out myself. If you look at everything else obama does, you know if you work, you will be getting screwed. If you don't work, you'll be getting it free. Look at those $300/month premiums, your deductible will be close to $5000/year.
People are paying a lot more than that now. I think we need to tie salaries of members of Congress to a shutdown. Their salaries would be the first immediate impact. After all they didnot do their jobs. So, they should be the first hurt and feel the pain. I bet you there would never be talk of a shutdown ever.
There was a story in the news the other day of a woman getting tied up, her house robbed, and they took the Aston Martin. The house was worth over 30 million dollars. What caught my attention? The owner of the house was in the medical billing business. A 35 million dollar house paid for out of our health care premiums. What a racket!! I really hope that the Affordable Healthcare Act stops these people from bleeding our healthcare dollars dry. Isn't it Karmic Debt that the people that have been robbing us for years had the tables turned on them.
I would be thrilled with $300 a month. As a 40-something woman I currently pay $540 for a 'basic' plan.
It's my biggest expense after my mortgage. And it's why I drive an old car and don't get to buy new clothes very often. I use coupons and rarely eat out. $240 savings a month would be huge. Hope it's not a tease.
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