Health Coverage: It has started
- Thread starter Will E Worm
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yup Obamacare will not fix the healthcare crisis in the US
Look at Massachusetts and Switzerland for example. In Massachusetts Romney passed health care reform and so far it has been successful with about 98% of residents insured. Back to the ACA, the bill passed by Obama is the same bill passed by Romney and it was the success of the Massachusetts reform that led Obama to settle on the model that we have today.
Twenty years ago Switzerland had a healthcare system very similar to America-private provider and insurer- with very similar problems. People didn’t buy insurance but ended up in emergency rooms, insurers screened out people with pre-existing conditions, and costs were rising fast. The country came to the conclusion that to make health care work, everyone had to buy insurance. So the Swiss passed an individual mandate and reformed their system along lines very similar to Obamacare.
The result two decades later: quality of care remains very high, everyone has access, and costs have moderated. Switzerland spends 11% of its GDP on health care, compared with 17% in the U.S. Its 8 million people have health care that is not tied to their employers, they can choose among many plans, and they can switch plans every year. Overall satisfaction with the system is high.
Very rare in politics are you able to do a dry run of a law before putting it into place. You have two examples in Massachusetts and Switzerland where very similar if not the same exact reforms were made and we are seeing the reforms being enormously successful.
Twenty years ago Switzerland had a healthcare system very similar to America-private provider and insurer- with very similar problems. People didn’t buy insurance but ended up in emergency rooms, insurers screened out people with pre-existing conditions, and costs were rising fast. The country came to the conclusion that to make health care work, everyone had to buy insurance. So the Swiss passed an individual mandate and reformed their system along lines very similar to Obamacare.
The result two decades later: quality of care remains very high, everyone has access, and costs have moderated. Switzerland spends 11% of its GDP on health care, compared with 17% in the U.S. Its 8 million people have health care that is not tied to their employers, they can choose among many plans, and they can switch plans every year. Overall satisfaction with the system is high.
Very rare in politics are you able to do a dry run of a law before putting it into place. You have two examples in Massachusetts and Switzerland where very similar if not the same exact reforms were made and we are seeing the reforms being enormously successful.
vodkazvictim
Why save the world, when you can rule it?
As I understand it, Obamacare is simply a way of making people buy health insurance.
Little Bush was the worst, most ineffective, non interested, piece of shit this country has ever seen. WE will suffer from his reign for decades to come and all your bullshit made up 'facts' will not change this. Put down your bible open your eyes and try to contribute to a solution instead of fanning the flames SHEEP!
Will E Worm
Conspiracy...
It will just penalize people who can't afford the extra tax.
In it's simplest terms yes. The big fuss is over the individual mandate which requires everyone to buy health insurance. However "Obamacare" as most like to call it is not an actual healthcare plan, it's simply a set of reforms.
Lori Michaels
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I agree Will E Worm, he is the worst in history.
Rey C.
Racing is life... anything else is just waiting.
Maybe he is. But would you be able to do an objective comparison and contrast of the Obama presidency and that of say, Warren G. Harding or Herbert Hoover? Somehow, I doubt it.
So, while I believe that everyone is entitled to an opinion, fairly often, those opinions are based more on the emotion of the present day and not on actual historical facts.
"Every generation's memory is exactly as long as its own experience."
--John Kenneth Galbraith
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