Obamacare needs to go. It resulted in crappier medical care, which is more expensive and has higher deductibles. Medical, Pharmaceutical and Insurance industries are all about profits.
The goal s/b to help those who need medical assistance without making others suffer thru unacceptably high costs, and subpar medical treatment and lost of choice in doctors.
Well the problem that I ran into is that absolutely nothing was being done before Obamacare. And you guys want to sit there and say that our medical system was this shining glorious thing and it really wasn't. You still had to pay $200 to see the fucking doctor. You still had private insurance companies telling you what treatments you could and couldn't get and looking for every excuse they could to just take your money and not pay. My memory isn't that short. I remember what it was like before Obamacare. Obamacare made it possible for people under 18 to see the doctor without bankrupting their parents. It made it possible for me to see the doctor and get treated when I was shitting blood every 10 to 15 minutes and I couldn't even leave the house. Talk all the shit you want about it but Obamacare I would say is probably the only reason I'm even alive today. The alternative would have been to go to a gastroenterologist, get the prescription, get the colonoscopy, and pay for my meds all completely out of pocket because private insurance wanted $1,000 a month and they would only cover two doctors visits a year and only partially, and I would have had to fight them to get my medication even covered halfway. I wouldn't have been able to afford it and eventually I would have gone on disability because of it. So yes overall for my perspective it was a good thing. Sorry if you guys hate the idea that a society should take care of its elderly and sick so they don't wind up on the street or die.
I mean beyond that, it's my personal belief that hospitals should be considered public infrastructure because this private for-profit medical system is a bloated monstrosity that's making us all sick. The entire insurance industry ought to be abolished or neutered.
My memory isn’t short. I, while on Tricare, had better doctors, didn’t pay crap to see a doctor, and didn’t pay any premiums. Now I pay premiums (on EFFING TRICARE), get tossed to Doctors who I wonder how they got their damn license to practice and pay a high deductible every year BEFORE I don’t have to pay. So I’m quite aware of what Obamacrap did to me and my family (daughters all had insurance go sky high with ridiculous unaffordable deductibles.). So don’t assume I have no idea what a crap deal that was for me and mine. It doesn’t work for the majority of people and therefore something else needs to be done.
Obamacare needs to go. It resulted in crappier medical care, which is more expensive and has higher deductibles. Medical, Pharmaceutical and Insurance industries are all about profits.
The goal s/b to help those who need medical assistance without making others suffer thru unacceptably high costs, and subpar medical treatment and lost of choice in doctors.
Well the problem that I ran into is that absolutely nothing was being done before Obamacare. And you guys want to sit there and say that our medical system was this shining glorious thing and it really wasn't. You still had to pay $200 to see the fucking doctor. You still had private insurance companies telling you what treatments you could and couldn't get and looking for every excuse they could to just take your money and not pay. My memory isn't that short. I remember what it was like before Obamacare. Obamacare made it possible for people under 18 to see the doctor without bankrupting their parents. It made it possible for me to see the doctor and get treated when I was shitting blood every 10 to 15 minutes and I couldn't even leave the house. Talk all the shit you want about it but Obamacare I would say is probably the only reason I'm even alive today. The alternative would have been to go to a gastroenterologist, get the prescription, get the colonoscopy, and pay for my meds all completely out of pocket because private insurance wanted $1,000 a month and they would only cover two doctors visits a year and only partially, and I would have had to fight them to get my medication even covered halfway. I wouldn't have been able to afford it and eventually I would have gone on disability because of it. So yes overall for my perspective it was a good thing. Sorry if you guys hate the idea that a society should take care of its elderly and sick so they don't wind up on the street or die.
I mean beyond that, it's my personal belief that hospitals should be considered public infrastructure because this private for-profit medical system is a bloated monstrosity that's making us all sick. The entire insurance industry ought to be abolished or neutered.
My memory isn’t short. I, while on Tricare, had better doctors, didn’t pay crap to see a doctor, and didn’t pay any premiums. Now I pay premiums (on EFFING TRICARE), get tossed to Doctors who I wonder how they got their damn license to practice and pay a high deductible every year BEFORE I don’t have to pay. So I’m quite aware of what Obamacrap did to me and my family (daughters all had insurance go sky high with ridiculous unaffordable deductibles.). So don’t assume I have no idea what a crap deal that was for me and mine. It doesn’t work for the majority of people and therefore something else needs to be done.