posted on Oct, 2 2013 @ 10:45 AM
When one looks at the issue, sans the rhetoric, the simple truth of medical care, the cost, who pays for it, is we do.
No matter what "system" is used,the healthy pay for the sick and infirm.
It is safe to say that no one wants people to go untreated, especially when a disaster can befall any of us at any time.
Be it Medicare, private insurance, free service at any federally subsidized hospital, we pay for it.
Higher hospital costs to compensate for the "free" services. Higher taxes or higher insurance premiums to pay for the ill.
There is no getting around it. There is no such thing as free medical service. Never has been, never will be.
Sure there are stand-out issues such as prior conditions which were/are glitches, however, even now those with prior conditions ARE getting quotes for
coverage...one eg. 37,000 per year for an existing condition!!
My problem with the "Affordable Care Act" is it plays on the "free" issue with those that could care less the effect it has on the rest of us, but
worse, it lessens the quality of care for those who do pay for it and makes it mandatory for me to purchase.
Bottom line is it costs more for most people, lowers the quality of service for the majority, removes the freedom of choice of even having coverage
and transfers my freedoms to gov't control.
It has nothing to do with who supports it or is against it,politically, it's less bang for the buck and, as usual, less individual freedom that it
engenders.
I am not against reform. I am saying this isn't what most had in mind when the reform/change slogans where used as an election platform.
Scrap it. Start over with full and OPEN input by all concerned, then decide on the best course of action, THEN put it to the people via vote.
After all, it's the people who are going to be stuck with what results.