I think over the next 3 years at least, the ACA plans will have a ton of issues. However, you can put me in the camp of this will eventually sort itself out…I’m all for single payer as well like 100% of the other top 20 industrialized nations or some number where it works…at least better than our crappy system now.
If top or specialized hospitals want to drop people on ACA since they are, say for profit or what not…I say let them. If the 1% or 10% can pay the higher prices, by all means, let those people do it. If you had a condition that no one else can treat, well, I’m so sorry for you that your issue is that specialized or unique.
I’d be the first to say if it cost me and my family say 5-10 million to possibly extend my life, I’d be the first to put a stop to that and sign the rest of the half of my life over. Maybe this is the downside of the ACA or Obamacare, but I think there should be cost limits for everything. Like I see people try to prolong the life of a pet and spend say 5-10k to do it when the dog has cancer, just make his/her last moments as comfortable as possible and move on. In the end, we all WILL die anyways. People die everyday as well. No reason IMO to bk your family or everyone else in America to try to save you.
My reason for the 3+ years is because the universal healthcare in Massachusetts took, I’ve heard 3 years+ before things started to work and stabilized. This one is on a much larger scale so expect more “reports” of problems, dropped coverage, death panels, etc…I’m all for it.
In the end, being a supporter of some universal health care solution (and I’m NOT a democrat or a Obama supporter), at least something is being done now.
Like many others have said, if you are anywhere familiar with shopping for health insurance yourself, if you had any pre-existing condition, you WILL be dropped or charged something so insane, you’d be bankrupt before long. The stress of even getting covered is insane as well.
Again, all his is coming from someone who has rarely, if ever used much hospital services and I have never to my knowledge stayed in a hospital neither for a day. For young (< 25) people, it sucks you have to pay more, but eventually, you'll be 35/45/55...and you will be glad you have healthcare.
In the end, if a hospital drops 80-90% of their patients, good luck trying to stay in business and I'm all for it and more power to them if they can stay in business after that.
I'd also love to see healthcare just dumped from companies since it sucks to have to stay at a job just to get the healthcare.
I think what I'm hoping to see is ACA mostly works, companies see it, decides to raise people's pay a little, dump all coverage across the board, ACA gets more funding, insurance companies can lower rates with all these younger/healthier workers...and the US has joined the rest of the world in how healthcare is done and life is good...more or less, in health care finally. 🙂
