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Showing Original Post only (View all)Obamacare is not a disaster [View all]
it is a start of something greater. Hopefully the DLC types will come off the ledge and concede that maybe universal health approach is the most simple, elegant way to address the lack of health care for all. My relatives in Canada all agree with me that universal health care (extending Medicare to cover all Americans) would have been the most logical way to approach this big problem. For now, we must work on making Obamacare stronger but we must voice our opinions with what is working and what isn't working. This is why shouting down dissent is a bad idea because Obamacare needs positive and negative feedback for it to succeed long term.
The sticker shock criticism to me makes perfect sense as most Americans are insulated inside of a "no more taxes bubble". But for Obama care or universal health care to work our population must contribute to the pool to make it work. Is this socialized medicine? Yes and if you are against socialized medicine or for the greater good that is fine.
My health insurance is going up even though, I am a single, male. Female closes to my age are in their child bearing years and they need more care, so this is where my money is going for. I don't regret this at all because given the statistics of our country when it comes to infant mortality we can, and should do better.
The main concern I have is that we spend a lot of money on healthcare but statistically we are far behind countries with Universal health care. In theory we should be ahead, but reality is capitalism can't solve all market woes like economic conservatives believe. ACA takes several steps to address this ineffectrive and inefficient spending but I think much more is needed.
It is a work in progress though, so people need to be patient.