Quote:If it sucks because Republicans watered it down. Obamacare should have had a public option. Democrats will introduce single payer when the American public has proof this market based healthcare system is a failed experiment. It won't work and it never will work.

 

1.) republicans had no part in the Obamacare deliberations.  It was passed with 100% democrat votes, I believe for the first time in major entitlement history. 

 

2.) Why is it the people clamoring for a single payer system never reference the VA as the Gold Standard?

 

3.) Failed experiment?  the problems that we are experiencing now are tied to government interference and distortions in the Market Place.  What MARKET BASED failures are your referring to?

 

As for the free Market, we have an emerging business model of health care cooperatives/concierge services that are revolutionizing cost mitigation.  In Wichita Kansas there are plans for 50 dollars per adult 10 per child for unlimited care and doctor visits, 90% discounts on most prescription drugs and coupling that with a catastrophic health care plan.  The Market has solutions, we just need to trust them. 

 

There are three (grossly oversimplifying) things that we need to look at What happens if you get cancer/get hit by a bus.  What happens if you need an MRI/x-ray  and what happens when you have a physical or a routine sick visit for a prescription.  Those three risk pools don't all have to be coupled into the same policy or system of risk management.  We can deal with those risks individually to maximize customer input and mitigate costs.  As market forces drive down prices then it means more people will be able to afford it and it will cost less to help the truly indigent. 

 

IT was interesting watching the Movie STEVE JOBS.  when Jobs first introduced the LISA computer it flopped.  Later when he introduced the IMAC he finally met his lofty sales goals...  The LISA cost 2500 dollars, the IMAC cost 750 dollars while being infinitely more technologically advanced.  WHY?  Because the tech industry had to tie its products to peoples ability to ACTUALLY PAY FOR THINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   The cost curb wouldn't have been trending downward if the government mandated everyone have computer insurance to pay for a 2500 computer to run ipaint.

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