Quote:It's a stepping stone indeed. A stepping stone to disaster and is slowly wiping the middle class away.


If you really think that universal <del>medicare</del> medicaid is the answer, then you are very mistaken. All that would do is de-value the education and profession of being a doctor. In essence, you are making the medical profession a "trade" rather than a "profession".


Want to bring the cost of health care back down to reasonable levels? Then allow insurance companies to sell insurance across state lines. Move back to what health insurance really is, an "insurance policy" against catastrophic conditions. "Health Insurance" and "Health Care" doesn't mean routine checkups or a physical at a doctor's office. After all, your car insurance policy doesn't pay for routine oil changes or inspections.


Speaking of which, it would be interesting to see how many new Obamacare members even went in to a doctor for a physical, pap-smear or a breast exam.


Get rid of the employer mandate. The only reason employers started offering health insurance was because they wanted to attract labor. It's not an employer's duty to take care of your health insurance needs. Put the responsibility back into the hands of the people. After all, "the people" are demanding reasonable representation in the current election.

You're entitled to your opinions, no matter how naive and misinformed they are.


Like I said, I've had these debates for like 6 years. At one point I read read about 80% of the law.


As for your idea about how to lower costs, it would work! So long as we go back to leeches and using ether as the only form of anesthesia. Lol... again, very naive. Those types of solutions and talking points are popular with head nodding troglodytes that can't think for themselves, but it's not a solution. It's a libertarian propaganda fallacy disguised as credible policy.

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