Well, of course your set point is to give this a chance.
Markets, businessmen and others who are reading about the changes they must be making are well ahead of you, and they are already realizing what they will be required to do. . . . cut full-time employees, replace them with part-timers they will not need to take responsibility for, and cut the pay package for the rest because of their increased costs under Obamacare.
We were told, when this bill was being debated that it would reduce costs. Instead, across the board it is increasing costs, and people are facing reduced disposable income. Even the poor, who already do get health care if they cast a shadow on a hospital or clinic under Federal rules, are forking out larger out-of-pocket co-pays for care and prescriptions. Their care was rolled into operating costs by caregivers, raising the price for paying users of healthcare or insured users. . . . but the increased costs are forcing price increases across the board for everyone. The poor who do work and have any income or bank accounts will pay thousands of dollars of taxes if they are not covered.
That includes all the people being part-timed out of full-time jobs.
Anybody who actually cares about what is good for people can already see the handwriting on the wall and realize we just need to repeal Obamacare and learn from it's mistakes, now, and until you can devise a government program that will not increase costs the fact is we were better off before the ACA. For starters we could just stay with that.
My wife is a nurse, and we are always in contact with doctors. Besides that, we have been heavily involved in getting medical care for the past year and a half. I can understand people's frustrations with the way things were, and I do see that the ACA is not actually going to help.
Let me explain to you as succinctly as I can why exactly we deserve this stupid law. Conservatives for 30 years refused to have a conversation about the issues with our healthcare system, and pushed a "do nothing" attitude to the breaking point. Had they come to grips with reality and done something about the all the things they hate then they could have COMPROMISED in an actual debate, and probably gotten a pretty darn good system. Instead, they crossed their arms and ignored the problem as long as possible. That attitude deserves to get pissed on with a law "crammed down are throats".
Here's how a conversation with an ideologically conservative goes:
Moderate: I hate how we have to pay thousands of dollars to treat people in hospitals who could have kicked the strep throat for a $40 office visit and penicillin script.
Con: Oh, I know, I hate that. Congress has to go. We need to through them all out, both sides.
M: I don't see what that has to do with the healthcare discussion, but I guess so. I also don't like how I can pay 30 years for premiums, like a good conservative, and then get laid off for 6-months and denied new insurance for a pre-existing condition even though I had been doing the right thing.
Con: Yeah, that's total b.s. You know what we need is term limits and campaign finance reform. That's the problem with this country.
M: Huh? Okay, back to health care. You know how many people can't afford cancer treatment for their husband or wife because they're gainfully employed, so they go on unemployment and we pay the full amount of their treatment costs plus their unemployment benefits? That's madness.
Con: Yeah, the system is really screwed up. We should put congress in a line and shoot them all dead and start with a clean slate.
And for that, we deserve Obamacare.
BTW, read through this thread and you'll see exactly what I'm talking about. The cons are so fixated with broken congress rhetoric that they've become the root cause of exactly what they bitch endlessly about.
