This Obamacare bill is a total joke, but it isn't funny at all. It was pushed through Congress with thousands of pages. If congress and the rest of us had had 6 months to read it, could we have figured it out? To make matters worse, the bill spawned tens of thousands of pages of administrative regulations. Why? Was the purpose of all the complication to prevent scrutiny until after is passed? Maybe it was designed to prevent scrutiny forever. Who can ever figure out such a mess?
How will medical care providers or insurance companies or employers figure out this MessAPolitico? Does it do anybody any good to have such a tangle of rules and regulations? If all of these entities need to hire high paid lawyers to interpret the bill and all of the regulations will that make medical care more accessible to folks that don't have it? No. In fact, it is more likely to make more of us likely to lose our coverage, because the effective cost of providing insurance goes up for our employers. It also makes the price go up for individuals that are trying to provide for their families.
Did you know that your doctor is now required to ask you a lot of intrusive questions when you come in for an office visit? That's Obamacare at work. The doctor is required to ask about your sexual history and preferences. If they don't, the doctor pays a fine. So much for protecting my privacy. Why is that the business of my government? I have my own insurance, and I pay the premiums. I pay the deductibles. I pay the co-payments. It's none of their business what I do in my spare time. It's none of their business what I eat or drink. Hey Michelle Obama. If I want to drink a 64 ounce Mountain Dew with my fat back sandwich, it's not your concern.
In my opinion, the government getting involved in health care precipitated the high inflation in this industry to begin with. That's right, I'm talking about Medicare and Medicaid. Before these programs were started, people could go to the doctor and get medical care on a pro bono basis. That was great. Then the government decided to step in and provide these services. The medical providers that had once been charitable suddenly started taking payouts from the government for the charity cases. Of course, the charity cases suddenly started complaining that the care they were given at no charge to them wasn't good enough. Then there was money thrown into the health care system by the government, and more people were basically paying for health care in the form of Medicare and Medicaid. The increased demand led to higher prices.
Of course, more and more people had better insurance at work. When insurance pays for almost everything, why should you shop around for affordable health care? That caused insurance companies to create HMO's and PPO's where they shopped around for providers that would take a lower price for the services.
So, what should we do? I think that Obamacare should be repealed in its entirety. All of us, Conservatives and Liberals, Republicans and Democrats, Libertarians, etc. etc. should call or write our members of Congress and tell them to repeal the bill. There should be reforms that make sense and actually reduce cost. It should eliminate regulations. Stop telling them how to provide health care. This huge, unworkable MessAPolitico should be replaced by a bunch of small, understandable bills that are based on common sense. Congress shouldn't have the choice of everything or nothing. Congress shouldn't have a bill that is so large that it can't be read and understood quickly and easily. They shouldn't be able to hide things in the bill that really aren't related to health care either.
I'm really against government intervention in health care or anything else. At this point, we have a bunch of intervention. The bill can't even be tweaked, because the House will only vote for a total repeal of Obamacare. The Senate and the President won't open the door to changes for fear of losing everything. That means that we are stuck with the whole MessAPolitico. In the end, who benefits from the "Affordable" Care Act?
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