God the health care situation here is such a fucking mess. Obamacare is botched to shit and doesn't work and allows for the greedy, self interested medical companies to profit in far too large of amounts, but if people thought that OBAMACARE was too left than I cannot imagine anything better passing through.
The US needs to get over its fucking boogeyman-like fear of the word "socialist" and us as citizens need to get over our idealist asses that are more interested in petty partisan squabbles than in passing proper legislation.
I agree with those that think it needs to be fixed and not repealed in its entirety. That's just wasteful and is only an attempt to grab more voters, not to fix healthcare lol
[QUOTE=catbarf;46431135]Romney's idea, modified extensively by the Democrats, then forced through Senate majority without attempting to reconcile any of the disagreements with the Republicans.
Then people act surprised when the Republicans don't want to cooperate with Democrats who ram new legislation past them through force of numbers. A functioning democracy requires compromise and [i]neither[/i] side has been willing to do so.[/QUOTE]
We don't negotiate with terrorists.
Tbh both Democrats and Republicans should repeal Obamacare and start from scratch. It just sounds terrible. Obama wasted so much time of his presidency enacting and marketing such a terrible policy.
You don't even need to follow Scandinavian policies. Try our opt-out system: Pay a 2% levy on taxable income (with low income exemptions from the levy but not the program) which contributes to a cash pool, and then when you go to visit your doctor or for most other medical expenses, most of the fee is subsidised from that cash pool. Makes healthcare cheaper for everyone and as it's opt-out and doesn't substitute the services provided through private health insurance, that market will still exist.
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