Most people aren't eligible for medicaid and The ER only treats emergencies it is not thorough healthcare
then why not reform medicaid? what is the purpose of obamacare, i simply don't 'get' it? This is a power grab, passed overnight on Christmas eve, it was established for eventual control of the healthcare sector, no doubt about it. If the govt simply wanted everyone insured, they could have reformed the medicaid system, and had a much easier time doing so. Please point out what i'm missing.
The public option was an expansion of medicaid and all republacns and a few blue dog democrats were against it. Why didn't republicans fix the healthcare system when Bush had the white house and congress for 6 years
because they either disagreed that it needs to be fixed or didn't see the public option as the answer. How does deflecting the question = an answer. The dems had full control of the house, senate and presidency and could have passed any law that they wished.. why didn't THEY pass the public option? Again, what is the purpose of obamacare? btw ALL repubs were against obamacare, every single one, so that is a shit argument.
I would argue that insurance exacerbates the core problem, it doesn't fix it. In fact it will likely just make it worse in the real world. If people really want to fix the problem, they have to fix the pricing mechanism in health care. Insurance destroys the stable pricing mechanism, so expanding insurance simply compounds the real issue.
50 million people had no healthcare,that is unacceptable.Republicans did nothing ,Dems took the best deal they could get.Thats why we have Obamacare
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unacceptable to you maybe (exaggerated #) You're just not reading my posts bud. Why didn't they pass the single payer plan with full control of the law passing bodies of govt? WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF OBAMACARE? Seriously I just can't see one. I also can't respond to any more partisan bs, either u guys know or you don't.. I don't. Edit: not a single repub voted for THIS bill. none of them, please stop making that excuse, it is fully fictitious.
Listen to this 1961 Reagan speech about 45 seconds in for a possible answer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRdLpem-AAs
Because in the real world where politicians are bought by special interest they couldn't so dems took what they could get