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Originally Posted by crockett
The problem the govt is dealing with when it comes to any sort of meaningful reform is like I mentioned in the other topic in relation to insurance. The govt has to deal with the current market place.
Just like the govt wouldn't go in and nationalize the county's oil fields and refineries or set a maximum price on a gallon of gas, they can't exactly do that with the health sector or insurance either.
Countries that do those kinds of things are dictatorships in most cases. As a so called free society we have to work around various markets that have been created over time due to the status qua. We can't force private companies into that situation instantly. We have to slowly push them in that direction giving them time and ability to change their business models.
Sure it's would be more beneficial for the people to just turn everything into a free system single payer system where anyone could walk into any hospital or doctors office and get treatment doing away with massive bills that put people into bankruptcy and ending the useless leech system that is the health insurance market.
We simply can't do that as a free and open society.
IMO the current Obamacare set up is sort of a stop gap system that is necessary to deal with the insurance problem. It will eventually lead us to a single payer system IMO.
The hospital situation is another situation completely. Obama care wasn't a bill to reform the entire healthcare system, but rather to get people access to healthcare.
Expecting Obamacare to reform the entire system is asking too much of it from the start. It will help drive the costs down but separate or additional reform is needed in that area. A good start would be making a regulation that requires hospitals to show up front what they charge for procedures and make them justify charging people $50 for a aspirin and explain who that is not the same as say price gouging during a national disaster.
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That's a pretty good post really.
Society has come to expect "instant gratification" and this is rarely the case. You don't become CEO of a company like Ford or General Motors and suddenly the company is making a profit two months later - It just doesn't work like that.
When Obamaboy become President, for the first two years people were like "Why hasn't he fixed this yet?". It's not an instant fix - Our economy was a mess and it's not something that is going to be fixed two years.
The Healthcare law is the first step towards making changes in our healthcare system. There are some real benefits coming out of Obamacare, but instead of being thankful for the positive half of the country is focusing on the negative. If your car gets a flat tire on the side of the road, do you fix the flat or do you sit on the side of the road bitching and crying for two years? Not sure about you, but I expect our government to fix the problems not buy me a new car.