Yes! GAO says since 80% of what insurance collects has to go to medical care - insurance costs are being lowered soon.
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No! It's not good enough.
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Trick question ? Obama care will do fine with some tweaks. IF GOP - CON judges do not kill it.first. Likely they will Con judges / corps / Wall St - lobbyists run US gov't- our economy- make our laws that favor wealth and lower our wages. Can one man undo all that ? NO but we can hammer them till they listen www.congress.gov www.whitehouse.gov SPEAK OUT NOW
If the 80% rule was true and being enforced, then why was the largest East Coast Insurance company forced to disclose its books just this year, and therebye admitting that it only spent 55% of its revenue on actual patient care? And, I've heard enough of the "fill-in-the-blanks" will be coming soon!!!
I have private and medicaid for my son medicaid with all its headaches pays 100%. Kaiser pays after you take out a second mortgage, the insurance is through my employer. OBAMA-care did nothing for us but raise rates and I pay more for insurance a month then my rent that is bad. Family of 4 800 1000 a month my rent is 650. And even with insurance we avoid the doctor as the co pay is a full days wage 120. We keep getting slammed and we can't take it anymore something has got to happen soon this is not right. You will never change these rich ass holes minds. Die Fetten Jahre sind vorbei.
Problem is Obama care went 1/2 way Massive Profit driven Private insurance plans are not cost efficient. We need Medicare for all aka Public option to compete with private ins CO's. Medicare is very cost efficient / has a low 3 % admin costs vs 25 + % for private insurance CO's With public option Rates would go down . So Vote DEM GOP Baggers will fight public option since they love big corps - not people
I clicked on the poll vote link and got the results.
Why can't I vote?
ObamaCare is useless in that Most Americans wanted single payer healthcare or Medicare for all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rob
Pensacola, FL
The only kind of health insurance reform that will really fix the problem is the nonprofit kind, the kind the rest of the world already has.
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Single payer is the best health care system for people of a caring society. Remove a 'for profit' health care system and let's rid ourselves of the Insurance corp's / CEO's greed and corruption of a human necessity that should never be privatized. Health care is an industry that NEEDS to be nationalized. For profit health care is shameful, we are better than this.
Remove money from politics and we all get true representation from our elected representatives. Democracy.
QUOTE: “If you’re starting from scratch, then a single-payer system — a government-managed system like Canada’s, which disconnects health insurance from employment — would probably make sense. But we’ve got all these legacy systems in place, and managing the transition, as well as adjusting the culture to a different system, would be difficult to pull off. So we may need a system that’s not so disruptive that people feel like suddenly what they’ve known for most of their lives is thrown by the wayside.”
— Barack Obama, in an 05/07/2007 New Yorker magazine interview explaining why Americans shouldn't properly replace a criminally corrupt insurance company profit care system that chains people to their employers, and often renders even those who have "insurance" health careless.
Obama frequently repeated his "No We Can't" disrupt this sick society's legacy systems message on the campaign trail, and near 70 million maniacs apparently either weren't listening to the change disqualifying qualifications he attached to his "promises" of change (all offered with his Cheshire Cat grin), or they manically assumed he was just saying that to get elected... or Obama's maniac millions never actually wanted any change to come.
If voting for Democrats was any part of the solution we wouldn't still have The Problem... and our children wouldn't be facing certain extinction, while "progressive" Democrats seek to establish an End of Times market for Goldman Sachs to profit from bundling pollution swaps.
It could be useful for those 70 million "progressive" liberals to stop being (D) bigger part of The Problem that they've always been.
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For-profit hospitals + for-profit doctors + for-profit drug companies. All with a history of charging much more than they do in other countries. Put them all together in a program than means you can't even take your money and go elsewhere (you can't save for a year or two with a high deductible, then go to a hospital in Mexico or Japan), and it's highly likely that ObamaCare can't work for a lot of people. In Vermont, maybe it can work. In McAllen, Texas, how could it?
Can we all talk talk talk some more about it all so time goes by and they get richer while doing nothing because they know we are going to keep talking and do nothing?
Obama only says what he knows he has to say to pass the time till someone else is in office and he gets a full retirement for 8 years of "work". No one deserves a full retirement for less than twenty years of work.