Why Obamacare is a Failure

Other groups have come up with similar estimates for the uninsured. This year, the Urban Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation published a report projecting that 24 million additional people by 2021 would have lost coverage or be unable to find it. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a group that seeks to lower the federal deficit, projected that the number would be 23 million.

Meanwhile, a 2016 study by the Commonwealth Fund and the Rand Corp. calculated that even the most successful replacement scenario produced an increase in 15.6 million uninsured people, while the most pessimistic would lead to an additional 25.1 million uninsured Americans.

As a percentage of GDP, the UK spent less on healthcare than USA, Japan, France and Germany and a similar percentage to Canada. The USA spent the most on healthcare (out of the G7) as a percentage of GDP at 16.6%.

What's the alternative?

So, how do you suggest the insurance companies offer coverage? Should I be able to deduct a certain amount of money because I won't ever need prostate surgery.

Also, I think breast augmentation is a 'want' not a 'need' so I can deduct that, because I shouldn't be forced to pay for it.

Also, should I check a box that includes coverage for rickets, tuberculous, or some rare form of cancer of the toenails? The insurance will only cover the conditions I checked, anything falling outside would be just too bad?

As it stands right now, I do pay for others prostate health because my policy doesn't have separate pay scales for men and women. My company also covers vasectomies, reverse vasectomies and viagra..........damn, your right Baldy, I'm getting screwed.

If I were you I wouldn't worry about compulsory 6 month doctor check-ups. The point is to offer access to people, not force people to see a doctor. Let me put it another way, If you break out in boils you won't be denied care for lack of insurance BUT if you don't break out in boils, the health police won't show up and cart off you kicking and screaming to be treated for boils.

You apparently know next to zilch about women's health. Your girlfriend won't bear any more children, and likely won't need a Pap smear (depending on what remained following surgery) but there are other conditions she might need help with that make regular visits to a gyn prudent.

I was also happy to hear that as women age they need less health care, did you write that with a straight face?

I hate to burst your bubble, and frankly I hope you and your girlfriend age without health issues, but you truly are woefully uneducated about risks to your health.

God bless baldy, you can roll the dice if you like, it's a free country.

I have seldom talked to anyone with such a limited view on health care. We already have too high a count of infant mortality because of poor pre-natal care. Sadly, too many women still die in childbirth or from complications shortly there after. But since your sons can only be the fathers of babies (assuming that fits their lifestyle) all you are risking is the loss of daughter-in-laws and potential grand children. It not like you have daughters, or anything equally useless. You sound like an interesting soul.......I guess.

If your girlfriend is your age or younger, that's young for that type of surgery. I hope for the best for her. I will tell you that my friends whose moms underwent those procedures in their 30's and 40's had problems with incontenence by the time they were in their 60's or 70's. Of course not all of them, but too often the bladder drops due to the absence of the uterus and if it gets serious enough sometimes surgery is required. There are such things as prolapse, which of course you know because you are an expert on female reproductive equipment.

I sincerely hope your girlfriend doesn't navigate her health care by your hairbrained understanding. It benefits all of us if you two stay healthy. No one benefits (especially you) if you become so ill you need disability.

Well, that's about all I care to share, and although it's been really great to listen to your 'truths', I'm going to beg off. Frankly, it saddens me when I encounter people like you. I don't think you're smart enough to get out of your own way. Smart might not be the best word, maybe 'too ridgedly devoted to a notion' of absolute right. Good luck to you Baldy, and good luck for the health of any potential grandchildren.

trouble is, the GOP has NO idea what it wants in either. They are wedded to "repeal Obqmcare". I think they missed the entire boat by not saying
"Obamacare has got some good things but a lot of dumb ones, were gonna fix it "

NOOOO, politics is bloodsport so **** em.

Government should be involved in health care. The health of the populace is important to our country. It limits the spread of disease and other illnesses. The good health of our children is important for the future of this country.

Your fake feelings don't really mean much to me. You can't have an honest conversation about health insurance without playing some pity game with my loved ones, it's ******* pathetic.