I'm in NO WAY in favor of the government being involved in heath care. The sad fact is that, through Medicare and Medicaid, the Feds are in it to an extraordinary extent beyond Obamacare. Even if the ACA were cancelled tomorrow, we would still have all or most of the heathcare problems that we have.G26ster wrote:How about a free market instead of gov't controlled health care? Simply removing restrictions for insurance allowing it to be sold across state lines, and reigning in state's mandated coverages, will reduce medical insurance costs. Simple competition. You don't see the problem with vehicle insurance companies who are beating each other bloody fighting for your business in every media outlet possible. MHOcb1000rider wrote: 2) We are stuck with some form of socialism (Obamacare) or having the government put caps on medical costs (another socialist concept).
If you've got a 3rd reality, I'm all ears...
The fact is that the heathcare is NOT a free market situation. Like the banking industry, too much of healthcare is controlled by large organizations with whom the health insurance industry is constantly doing battle. I don't see any reasonable way out of the current conundrum on healthcare costs. It is going to take the movements like the few physicians who no longer will accept any healthcare insurance growing by leaps and bounds before any real change can occur. As long as Medicare is a player, that change is going to be between difficult and impossible. The chances of changing Medicare are about is good as standing in the middle of your back yard and getting hit by 10 meteorites from 10 different directions at the same instant.