How SPECIFICALLY is healthcare reform going to fix the problems with healthcare in America?

Question

This is about the 10th HC related question I've asked and I STILL HAVE NOT gotten a STRAIGHT answer from a Democrat outlining HOW OBAMA'S REFORM IS GOING TO FIX HEALTHCARE.

Answer 1

It's not. It's a government power grab.

Answer 2

The fundamental problems with Health care in America is that we pay too much for the results that we get because someone else pays for health care, either an employer or the government. We need to move to a system where individuals can buy health insurance on their own. To get that system and give the option of keeping what you, the House Bill was designed with that goal in mind.



Under the House Bill, the uninsured can buy an individual insurance. To offset the private insurance plans with high overhead costs, the public option is offered, but not required. Later, employers sign up on the exchange. To ensure the costs and risks are spread, there is an employer and individual mandate.

Answer 3

I'm a Democrat, but I will say I don't think it will fix health care. What it will do is provide more coverage. There is a notion that more coverage will mean fewer people will cause hospitals and doctors to lose money to uncompensated care, meaning the rates won't have to reflect this. What happened in Mass. when all citizens were mandated to get coverage was the health care system was overwhelmed by demand and costs went up. This is happening everywhere, and it will simply get worse as the current model is not sustainable.



One thing that can happen, as when Clinton threatened to get involved in health care was the insurance industry got serious about cost-cutting. The downside was the HMO was born, but due to greed, the HMO's got the ugliest reputation of any health care entity. In theory, the HMO wouldn't be a bad model, but the for-profit companies discovered it they took the monthly premiums and gave no health care to members, there was lots more money for investors and executive bonuses. I think if Obama is also serious about health care, it may get the industry to start looking to ways to operate better.



I do believe we have to act. We are starting to crash and burn in the health care sector, but people are still able to turn a blind eye to it. I have received a raise every year for the last five years, and my rise in insurance premiums took away every penny of it. This year was the first year my premiums did not go up. Instead they doubled the co-pays for everything.

Answer 4

Well, it will give everyone access to healthcare and without taking away choice. I agree with it in principal. Everyone should have healtcare but do we really need to be focusing on this now. You all need to be concentrating on two things, the economy and the deficit. If the poor can't afford health care on their own, they do have medicaid. The US has far more important things to worry about at this point. But there is a lot of scaremongering going on, like the fear that government will replace private insurance, which is false. I live in the UK and we have government and private.

Answer 5

By what do you mean "fix"? Honestly, because depending on who you ask, you will get different answers. According to Ezekial Emanuel, it will fix the cost burden of caring for the aged by simply denying them treatment or giving them end of life counsel.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/07242009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/deadly_doctors_180941.htm?page=0

Others will tell you it will "fix" the injustice of not everyone being covered-we're ALL equally screwed this way...



Ultimately, if by "fix" you mean patch up the holes we have in health care, you won't get an honest answer. Under the current system we have, there are problems, yes. BUT, since it is a privately run system, for the most part, there is always room for improvement. We pay insurance companies and hospitals. Subsequently, other insurance companies we don't select for coverage and hospitals we don't go to for treatment must provide better, faster services to gain our otherwise lost business. It's ultimately about profit, but luckily, companies improve themselves in the attempt to get greater profits, so that means BETTER medical treatment. Won't ever happen under government run health care.

Yes, not everyone has insurance, but NOBODY can be denied CARE. Period... notice how it's no longer health CARE that the bill is about, it's about INSURANCE overhaul... hmmm, maybe the government caught wind of the reality that nobody in America is turned away when they go to the ER for treatment-the world's BEST treatment.

A rose by any other name still smells as sweet and a bill by any other name is still socialism that will destroy our quality of care...

Answer 6

You haven't gotten a straight answer, you say? Well let me give it a go...



Healthcare reform will drive down health care costs drastically from thousands of dollars a month. It will insure all American citizens (NOT illegal immigrants as some claim) who are unable to obtain health care themselves. It will NEVER deny coverage on the basis of a pre-existing condition to any American, and the cost of your health care will not skyrocket simply because you get sick.



It will also offer real competition for private insurance companies and an actual reason to give more liberties to the customer.



And all the tax cuts and tort reform in the world can't do any of that.

Answer 7

well being care reform ought to be all started first with TORT reforms, provide up the attorneys from suing medical doctors and hospitals for billions of dollars employing frivolous proceedings. Senator John Edwards amassed extra effective than $a hundred million suing medical doctors and hospitals over ailments that have been genetic in nature. that is frequently achieved by getting a touch low IQ jury and then convince them that if the scientific expert or well being midsection had completed this or that it would not have occurred. as quickly as you have tort reform we'd desire to roundup and deport all unlawful immigrants. those human beings go our borders enter our hospitals to have babies or different high priced remedies and disappear leaving the charges unpaid. The hospitals can no longer have sufficient money to accomplish those centers at no fee. insurance companies basically make approximately 2% earnings yet once you talk that their gross receipts are interior the 1000's of billions 2% is loads of money (hell, i could take it basically as quickly as and no person i know could ever ought to paintings returned) until eventually now you could effectively administration scientific expenditures you ought to provide up the flaws that reason the expenditures to skyrocket. I do help reform, i do no longer help the present plan that congress is working on. everyone that makes decrease than 4 cases the poverty point is able to hold jointly government subsidies to assist pay the fee of insurance. $ cases the poverty point is $88,000 in line with 3 hundred and sixty 5 days. who is going to pay for this. the respond is that the everyday tax payer will pay. Congress is making it extra financially sound for the prosperous to tug their funds out of the flow and avert paying taxes. they're going to nonetheless be prosperous yet will have no earnings, residing on their wealth, and could pay no taxes. If each and all of the prosperous (basically a million% of the inhabitants) did this the government could lose 40% of its earnings. the alternative could be financial ruin or advance the taxes on all human beings else to make up the adaptation. i latterly (Aug 2009) had an angioplasty as an out affected person, spent one night interior the well being midsection complete fee replaced into approximately $sixty 8,seven hundred In 1973 I had 2 surgical procedures in 3 weeks, complete fee replaced into approximately $5,a hundred and that i spent a complete of 8 days interior the well being midsection. My insurance in 1973 had to pay basically approximately $3,six hundred after negotiated savings, in 2009 my insurance payed on $a million,350 after negotiated savings.

Answer 8

It works here in the UK and has done for over 70 years. We are very proud of it.

Answer 9

No one can. O'Reilly actually said something smart last night, & I agree, when they shrink the health bill down to 3 pages, all bullet points, that we can easily & clearly understand, then I'll read it. TIll then, no support.

Answer 10

After reading the thing I can't really tell you. The whole thing is a baddd idea.

Answer 11

reduced bankruptcies would reduce billions in losses to health care providers, so they aren't raising your prices to make up losses incurred by people who aren't insured.

Answer 12

We will never get the truth so why waste your time?

Answer 13

aren't you supposed to be studying your illustrated copy of "the turner diaries"?