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Originally Posted by BFT3K
There are many things the government does wrong - there are many things the government does right. I would happily accept a government-run system over the weasels and demons that run our healthcare now.
If it weren't for Obama's changes, then you couldn't even GET healthcare if you had a pre-existing condition, and even after paying and paying outrageous amounts into your healthcare, they were still able to drop you once you got sick.
I don't LOVE the Obama plan, but it is certainly a better plan than what preceded it. Still not nearly good enough, but to go back to how it was, is the equivalent of throwing the baby out with the bath water.
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What precedes the Obama plan is a health care system corrupted by our own government. I'll take just one example... The way health care is run now it is by FAR better to acquire your healthcare through your employer. This was made possible and preferred by pre-tax purchasing of healthcare. That's all fine and dandy and seems like a great idea but think of the ramifications. You change every health care insurance providers business plan. It's no longer about selling to the individual and about appealing to their needs and offering the best service to them. It's now about offering the best service and pricing to employers. That's the wrong direction and I believe it to be responsible for quite a bit of the issues now; it certainly hasn't helped the situation.
Talking about the pre-existing condition stuff... Nobody would really change their healthcare unless they were unhappy with them... OR and from my experience this is usually the case... you change employers. If healthcare wasn't so attached to employers and was instead attached to the individuals this wouldn't be the kind of problem it is now. Once again, facilitated by government intervention. On top of that forcing a company to accept a client that is going to cost them money is just ridiculous... What if the government told you you had to accept clients that were going to cost your company $250k? Do you think that's fair? The legislation forcing health care providers to pick up people with known conditions only raises your own rates... the money has to come from SOME place.