opelmanta1900 wrote:I personally have only seen one thing about obamacare that i hate, the insurance requirement/ penalty... i know so little about healthcare it's ridiculous, but as soon as the government is allowed to force citizens to buy something, I'm out...
This was a requirement in MA for Romneycare before Obamacare.
There is no single solution, but you're correct: when it's government mandated it's bad.
And having a government insurance is a joke. You can't be the insurer AND the regulator of an industry.
People are furious that President Trump has business ventures in foreign countries while sitting POTUS.
Yet they applaud Obamacare and it has a much more direct conflict of interests. (worded poorly, but you get the point).
Health Insurance only works if the healthy are forced to buy in.
My wife and I get Blue Cross through her work. We pay into it, but it's a good plan. She just got a $300 gift card for being healthy. Because private insurers know it benefits them long term.
Government insurers can't do this. It wouldn't fit the government idea of being "inclusive".
I mean, what if mostly white upper class people earned the gift card??
It's a joke, and Obamacare is doomed to fail. Not because it's poorly designed, but because it's an impossible and misguided concept.