Obamacare is a complete and utter disaster, time to learn from Singapore

I'd rather read a report that's less than 15 years old.

Govt run, public hospitals that charge at cost for services. Yeah, I suspect that plan would not make it through the Senate. But I love it.

Not only is 1997 ancient history, but surely you remember the "Asian Contagion" of that period.

So yeah, I want more more recent data.

From the link:

"Data from 1997 was used in the report."

FAIL

I am happy with Sweden's. The basic problem with US is it's based on profit. Most of the others are based on health and it's associated outcomes for the patient. Doctors and hospitals seek to increase income, insurance companies  seek to increase income. When it's a business every sector seeks profit and jacks prices, seeks additional tests,...and so it goes...

I judge Obama care on one factor. Congress forced it on you but refused to accept it for themselves. So how good could it be? Good enough for you, but not nearly good enough for the rich or the ruling elites.

I had all I can take of the government "taking care" of me. Just go away please. 

It does apply to Congress, and their staff members. In fact, much of the way Obamacare works was based on what congress already had for themselves.

A free market must allow for people to have choices. If your child or wife are sick, there is no choice to say "no thanks." Real people in the real world do not choose to let their child die, or start shopping for cancer doctors in the hospital. All the pricing power rests with the suppliers. In any transaction where the two choices are pay-to-live, or go-die, that is not a free market. That is called ransoming. 

And, if you have researched pricing for services cash vs insurance, our HMO system is supposed to be this great invention to use group purchasing power to save money. The exact opposite is what occurs. HMO's pervert the market, and hospital chains do too. Instead of using the market to create a price, the suppliers set prices, and heaven forbid we allow the government to negotiate for Medicare services, or drug prices. 

I thought obama care was a failure on two fronts.

1) it has not even been fully implemented yet and it already cost 5 times as much as they thought it would

2) the federal government has zero authority to force the citizens to purchase anything.

They both subsidize health care, so at least that is a good start.

What does this have to do with the title of your post? What is Obamacare a disaster? I doubt a system of public hospitals refuses care to people with pre-existing illnesses.

I can live with those failures.

As probably would 50 other million who currently don't have health insurance.

Pretty hard to call Obamacare a complete and utter disaster when it hasn't even been fully implemented yet.  You can't seriously and legitimately make a claim like that until the law is in full effect for at least a few years.  Get back to us in, say, 2017 and then we can have a conversation about whether Obamacare worked or not.

you do not understand if it cost way more than they thought already when it is fully implemented the cost will skyrocket causing health care costs and taxes to skyrocket. the government being allowed to force anyone to buy anything will lead to the government forcing you to buy anything they want.

They believe in free markets and competition, america believes in monopolies, as shown by their healthcare system [it is a monopoly with a cap on licenses set by AMA].

Profit is always costly, non-profit hospitals used to be affordable.  Kucinich would not privatize the utility companies, those mayors that did so saw a tripling of utility costs to the consumer, but the owners got rich. Enron made a lot of profit, CA saw their utilities more than quadrupled when deregulation was passed.

Sweden and other Scandinavian countries do not think their citizens are commodities. Health care is not a commodity. The environment is not a commodity. Children are not a commodity.

What is your child's life worth?  What is your wife's life worth?  What is your parent's life worth?  Can it ever cost too much to save their lives?  If we don't think healthcare first and cost second we are barbarians.  Do you think we could scrape enough away from the bloated defense budget to pay for our loved ones lives?

The question is not how much your loved ones lives are worth because they are priceless. The question is how much is your freedom worth? Because once the government has control of your health care they have total control of your lives.

On a side note even if we cut the constitutionally required military budget to zero we would still not be able to pay for the health care of the U.S. Population. The military health care system had a budget of 40 billion for the 9 million people it covered in 2007. so lets convert that to cover the 300 million in the u.s. It would roughly cost 1.3 trillion dollars per year not counting for inflation, abuse, or fraud.

I laugh every time I hear somebody say that we can't affor national health care.  You need to explain this to me.

You see we pay for health care nationally right now.  We pay for it out of our pockets just the same as we would if it were through a tax system.  The difference would be that nobody would be left out.  So to say that we couldn't afford health care for the entire country is propogandized BS.

You came up with a number of 1.3 trillion dollars per year.  How much are Americans paying for health care right now without Obamacare?  Whatever the answer to that question is tells me that WE CAN afford it.  Not only can we afford to pay for health care in this country but we can also afford to pay Insurance companies billions of dollars "extra".

If you want to argue over mandates and systems then that's fine but don't give me that BS line of "we can't afford it" anymore.  We seem to be affording it right now with the shitty system we have now. 

like I keep telling you it is about the freedom and the money. The obama administration said it would be 100 billion for ten years to cover the uninsured under obama care. The price tag is up to 500 billion and it is not even fully implimented yet. So lets put that into 300 million people that would be into the hundreds of trillions of dollars to cover every one. In europe they have national health care their tax burden is in the 60 to 70 percent range. Than you have the loss of freedom with the federal government in charge of your health care what is to stop them from saying you can not have health care for any reason. Say you get hurt and show up at the hospital and the government agent says I am sorry mister jones it says you are a gun owner so you are not covered. If you turn in your guns we will let you see a doctor.

Your last two sentences are a possibility.  I hear about it all of the time now.  I am sorry mister jones, it says that you don't have insurance so you are going to have to leave.  If you can pay $8000 dollars a year for insurance then we'll be glad to take care of you then.  Health care facilities all over the U.S. tell you that you can't have health care for many reasons.

The only difference between Insurance company run health care and government run health care is that the government works for every American citizen at less cost than a Private insurance company.  A private insurance company doesn't even cover everyone that they take money from.  You can make your premium payments for years and years and then find out when you actually need them you get denied.  It happens every day.

I lose no more of my freedom through a government run health system than I lose in a private run health system.  My insurance company tells me who I can and cannot have for a doctor.  They tell me who I can and cannot have fill my prescriptions.  Hell, I have one of the biggest insurance companies in the world and they won't pay for any local dermatologists anywhere in my area.  If I want to get my moles checked and removed I have to go to another state.  You call that freedom?

As a point of fact, France and Sweden are at the high of Europe for tax collections, and both are around 48%. Germany is at 40%. Not 60%. They also realize that healthy citizens are not a cost, but a benefit to their nations. 

Really, it will cause health care costs to skyrocket? Well, at least it won't change anything. And we still get 50 million people to have health insurance, plus all the rules like not cutting people off for pre-existing conditions.