Nov 14th 2012, 15:34:05
Originally posted by BobbyATA:
dex I thought the goals were admirable of Obamacare. But no I don't think it is all that great a piece of legislation, and I think it will lead to higher insurance premiums across the board and hurt low wage employees, businesses that employ low wage employees and small to medium sized businesses a great deal.
Well, Americans already spend more per capita than any other industrialized nation and it also happen to be the only industrialized OECD nation without universal care.
It's fairly compelling what is driving up costs. The healthy are uninsured and the sick shoulder all the costs. And when you are sick and dying, you'll pay $2000 for a nurse to draw blood from you for 'tests'.
That's a nice series of Republican talking points though, but it doesn't empirically prove risk pooling is the wrong way to go.
Just fluffy things Repubs like to say while people go bankrupt for getting sick.