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McConnell is going to be a pivotal cog in the shadow government. Trump had better watch out.
 
KENNETH R. OSTBERG, Winston-Salem

Time to fix Obamacare

The United States is the only industrialized country without universal health care, delivered to citizens as a human right. And none of those systems (except in Great Britain) are “socialized medicine.”

“Obamacare” was passed in 2010 with no Republican votes. However, the program was developed in the open, with more than a year’s worth of committee meetings, hearings, expert testimony, etc. Republicans had infinite opportunity to help shape the bill but instead boycotted the effort. Subsequently many Republican controlled states, including North Carolina, in efforts to undermine the law, refused to expand Medicaid or establish state exchanges.

Everybody acknowledges Obamacare has flaws and problems, but Republicans have consistently refused to entertain modifications to fix the problems. Instead, they voted more than 50 times to repeal the law that 20 million Americans now rely on for health insurance. They know, but apparently don’t care, that this would result in thousands of unnecessary and premature deaths.

In states that did expand Medicaid and establish health-care exchanges, as Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, reported, Obamacare is working pretty well. It’s not “collapsing.” It’s having difficulties only in states where Republicans have actively worked to undermine it.

It’s time now for both parties to sit together in open collaboration and expand Obamacare into what it should have been from the beginning: universal coverage with a “Medicare for all” option to compete with private insurers.

Health care should be a human right in America, just as it is everywhere else in the industrialized world.
 


"And politicians have spent decades arguing over how to pay the bill, instead of asking why is the bill so high."
This board has been suckered into the same debate.

Solution is to have ACA pay x% over what Medicare pays.
Create medical usury laws to prevent price gouging. Enforce them.
 
Love that show.
 
We're the two people who watch TruTV after March.
 
Thanks for the heads up although that segment is always a bit awkward.
 
Any idea why it didn't come on tonight? Same with You Can Do Better? Impractical Jokers came on instead.
 
http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20170826/NEWS/170829906

"In what may be the first strike in a battle over what healthcare services should be provided in a hospital, Blues giant Anthem will no longer pay for MRIs and CT scans performed on an outpatient basis in hospitals across the country...The service boosts hospitals' income, with some health systems collecting more than half of their profit from imaging services..."
 
I recorded it as well. And it was Impractical Jokers. Weird.
 
This bipartisan health care plan could stabilize markets, two governors say

Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a Republican, and Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, a Democrat, shared their plan in a letter to congressional leaders Thursday. They acknowledge retaining the mandate may be a difficult sell for Congress, which has failed so far to pass a replacement health care bill.

“The current mandate is unpopular, but for the time being it is perhaps the most important incentive for healthy people to enroll in coverage,” they wrote to House and Senate leaders of both parties. Experts concur that keeping younger, healthier people in the insurance pool protects against costs ballooning out of control.

The letter was signed by the governors of Alaska, Louisiana, Montana, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
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