Repealing Obamacare

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Jacoby,

I'd like to see the details of that.

Fact is, everyone feels entitled to expensive life saving cancer therapies, even if they never see a doctor and wait until it gets really expensive to treat. Lots of people find excuses not to get colonoscopies, even if their health plan covers it.

This is one of the things I had a problem with about Obama. I was okay with this because I thought it was a one time thing and then you had full coverage but was very upset when I found out this would be a monthly thing and there still wouldn't be full coverage, I felt so ripped off and pissed and lied to. Then I was having anxiety because of my money anxiety and saying how unfair this all is and my mom was like this is so okay what he is doing so I told her it's making people poorer because they can't all afford it. This is a rip off, this is bull. I understand now this is the best he could do to make it affordable for many people but he didn't seem to think about the poor but he did form a plan where it would be free for low income people but some people fall in between the cracks. I still wish for full coverage and have taxes pay for it like they do in Canada and the UK but the republicans won't allow it which is why I am not very fond of them. My mom is like the insurance companies still need to get their money somehow so where are they going to get their money from to pay for your healthcare and I said "Do it the way Canada does it and the UK, taxes" and then she would say "The Republicans won't allow it so this is the best he can do." Okay fair enough but I am still not fond of the plan because of what it does for people who fall in between the cracks.

I really hate the snipping of posts, I don't understand why people do it other than the fact that they don't want to address all the points or to try be flippant and quipy. There's more to the sentence, I said that perhaps maybe insurance companies shouldn't cover people with chronic pre-existing conditions(obviously would need to re regulated) and not be in the private market at all. The government subsidizes healthcare already so to spell it out, the federal government can pay for healthcare directly instead of going thru.

I think what we need are more healthcare professionals in this country as there is a chronic shortage; you can't expand coverage and lower costs while maintaining the same quality of care with millions of new people seeking healthcare unless there isn't an equivalent increase in healthcare professionals which something that can I think can be addressed through education policy and perhaps highly skilled immigration. Maybe instead of giving out federally guaranteed loans for useless humanities degrees and pushing all kids into college, the government only pays for useful majors like healthcare and STEM, does any body really need to pay 6 figures for a degree in women's studies? I don't think so. It might be a fascinating topic and worth learning but do it on your own time, we don't need to be building ivory castles for these people to educate people in something that has no job prospects. I think you should leave high school knowing a trade or some useful vocational skill, the kids leaving high school now have very little to show for it and it's not fair to force everybody to go to college when the reality is that is something that isn't realistic for a lot of Americans besides the most privileged. I think a reallocation of funds can fix a lot of things, we spend a lot of money on stupid things. We can do better, we do not need to settle, I am willing to experiment. Now these are my ideas not Trump's, you'd have to go interrogate him to find out his because all I can do is dance around edges of what he's said in the past but I think Trump is reciprocal to people that listen and are respectful of him. If I were you I would call your Democratic representative or whoever and instruct them to work with Trump to their greatest ability instead of obstructing because that is how you lose your seat at the table. The GOP very easily can use reconciliation to repeal the entire law if that is what they want, I don't think you want a bill passed by one party so participation and engagement is key. Like it or not, Trump is president for at least the next 4 years and Democrats have to work with him.

Some people don't even know they're sick and when they do go to a doctor, they get written off as having something else or being told to just go home and that it will go away. My uncle died because of it because he was having pain all the time and he did go to doctors but none of them did s**t about it and then by the time they knew, it was too late because the cancer had spread through his whole body and he died four days later.

Then there was my mother and the only reason why they knew is because she had a big lump on her thigh and it hurt and it turns out she was already sick long before but it would have been passed of as from her being stressed out from work so that is why she is tired all the time because of her age and she has been working too hard. And she did have good health insurance from her work so that was why she was able to afford everything and they paid for all of it but the only thing they lost was my Dad's retirement because they had to use it to live off of.

So they would be put on a government-run plan then, maybe something like Medicaid or Medicare. Am I right?

Something like that, I'd like to take a syncretic approach to it. I think more exposure to market forces would be perfect for some aspects of healthcare but other parts it obviously does not work the same way as is the case chronic per-existing conditions I don't think anybody is arguing that things were perfect before Obamacare but I do think there were different and better ways it could of been addressed. The main things I like to see covered in a replacement would be some option for those that would be denied healthcare, lowering the inflated costs of basic and preventative healthcare as well as prescription drugs by opening up the markets which would also preserve the freedom and choice Americans have come to be accustomed to, a 'surge' of additional new healthcare workers, and to hopefully eventually move back to a system where people simply able to pay for unexpected high cost healthcare with low cost catastrophic insurance coverage rather than to be so depend on insurance for all our healthcare needs. The costs have become so inflated, it's not a sustainable system in my opinion and I think their are a lot of middlemen that can be cut out. Perhaps something can be worked out with education where the government could pay for the education of these people if they agree to be 'drafted' to work and to provide a public service where needed for a few years, I believe they already do something like with certain things.

Yeah, this sounds pretty good, something that can help people in need while appealing to Republicans.