Is Obamacare flawed?
Yes. It was written by the right-wing Heritage Foundation,
implemented in Massachusetts onder Mitt Romney,
and relabeled for the Obama Administration
to get Big Pharma and Big Medicine on board.
They are so disproportionately powerful,
it was political reality that they had to agree for it not to die stillborn.
Did it work?
What use is a $7000 deductible? Little.
But ask the
20,000,000 who now no longer have a Sword of Damocles hanging over their head and
have healthcare.
Ask the millions with pre-existing conditions who were previously
cast into the wilderness.
Ask the millions with cancer and terminal disieases
with expensive procedures and thousand dollar pills.
The glass was half-full.
Could it be improved?
Obviously. And it should have been. It should have
been a work in progress.
Incremental improvement. Learn by your mistakes.
Why wasn't it?
Healthcare is a $6,000,000,000,000 industry. (Yes,
six trillion per year).
The rich decided they must have it all. No crumbs were
to fall off the table.
Nurses could be made to work for minimum wage, just like
teachers now do.
Everyone's got a nestegg somewhere. They'll cough up for those
thousand dollar pills or die (or mortgage their house).
Is there a better system?
Yes.
Forty cents of every dollar goes to the
insurance companies.
For them to duplicate a system that already exists and is
paid for- Medicare and Medicaid.
That forty cents could pay for those without
care with some change left over for an F-35 or two.
Instead it goes to the Caymans
or Swiss bank accounts.
Very little, if any, even comes back in taxes on the insurance
company profits ("we're still depreciating our typewriters from 1962".).
How to implement it?
Walk in, give them your Social Security number, wait
for them to call your name.
Contrary to popular propaganda, no one steals healthcare.
"Ooohh,
that colonoscopy was so much fun, I'm going to get six more next week!"
The
real fraud in medical care is from overbilling, $7 aspirins, extra visits, etcetera.
That's
not the recipients.