tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8397075136346606614.post8063564765183064057..comments2024-01-24T13:40:48.869-06:00Comments on John Young Column: Health-care realities vs. free-market fantasiesJohn Young Columnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04888491583980003895noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8397075136346606614.post-12674493912409211882014-07-10T08:55:34.914-05:002014-07-10T08:55:34.914-05:00Unfortunately, just as other libs, you convenientl...Unfortunately, just as other libs, you conveniently leave out "realities" of the ACA. Why didn't ACA allow inter-state sale of policies to address your statement about free market competition? You must include the "reality" of the numerous exclusions/delays of various ACA regulations to make citizens think the law isn't as terrible as it really is....also, remember the "if you like your Dr. you can keep your Dr."? What you libs really want is a single-payer system...there is way too much government in our lives already!!!Charlie Gnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8397075136346606614.post-90639689310175582402014-07-09T13:21:27.403-05:002014-07-09T13:21:27.403-05:00We do not have a free market in medical care becau...We do not have a free market in medical care because tax incentivised-employer owned health care is not a free market. it is corporate socialized medicine. After watching the federal government run the VAH, I am disinclined to let them run the health care system.Bert Loftmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04275820061356019450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8397075136346606614.post-8150017061366311532014-07-09T13:16:18.533-05:002014-07-09T13:16:18.533-05:00I am so glad you understand that the only way we c...I am so glad you understand that the only way we can possibly have health care justice in this country, is via a single payer, improved medicare for all system, and that the government must run it as efficiently and as well funded as is Medicare. That is to say, the government should not be looting medicare, any more than the government should loot a fully funded single payer system, with our tax money. It is a shame you save that conclusion for the end of the article, though- I would like to hear more correlations in the meat of the article, about the failings of the ACA, and what being tied to Big Insurance actually means for the US population. For example, it sounds in the beginning like you are defending the ACA, talking about the types of criticism the current obamacare program has come under, or has been accused of. you write, "Most assuredly it wouldn't include 30 million newly insured Americans not even one year on". Let me say that it is the official White House stance, that the ACA was never meant to cover 30 million Americans. Here is a link from the Congressional Budget Office on just that: <br /><br />http://cnsnews.com/news/article/cbo-obamacare-will-leave-30-million-uninsured<br /><br />Thus far, the solution for the poor is to be dumped into Medicaid, a program for the poor that doctors are not even required to respect. Doctors do not have to take medicaid patients, and virtually no specialist will take a medicaid patient. If some kind of specialized care is needed for the health of the poor person, and is available in another state but not in their state of residency, tht person would be declared UN-insured if by some miracle they were able to go for that care in another state, as medicaid only covers the person in their state of residence. Some great examples are hospitals like the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins or the Mayo Clinic- specialized places that are among the only ones in the country who deal with rare heart issues, autoimmune diseases and neurological diseases. They treat people from all over the country and the world, for rare condiditions or those in need of ground breaking procedures, like a face transplant. This ENSURES that the poor will be underserved, a problem that the US Government knows about fully, yet has done nothing to correct, as our jobs are shipped overseas, and unemployment rates are at their highest. The only solution is a single payer system, and the American people are given no choice. We are now tied to a completely unregulated health insurance industry, that has been the very reason why Americans are made to feel so desperate for health care to begin with. We are tied to an industry, where our needs are a loss to their bottom line, and THIS seems to be the BEST that the Democrats have to offer. Nationalized Romneycare.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10314535884027104315noreply@blogger.com