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zipplewrath

(16,646 posts)
Mon Jul 22, 2019, 08:57 PM Jul 2019

The problem with the "fix ACA" argument

The problem is that the ACA was a "solution" to what is now a decade old solution at this point. They tried for the PO but it failed. Okay, but basically it's a decade later and it's time for "new" solutions. It's because the cost of health CARE has continued to escalate, as was predicted even back then. We need to get control of the cost of the underlying care, regardless of who is paying the bill. Single payer/M4A/Nationalized Healthcare, what ever we call it will ultimately need to solve the problem that the other industrialized countries have solved through centralized control. Is it an issue of "transitioning" over a period of time? Could be, but the end result, even if it is another decade, will be to get control of health care costs not just managing health insurance companies profit margins. Ultimately, and soon, we need to get control of the costs themselves.

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The problem with the "fix ACA" argument (Original Post) zipplewrath Jul 2019 OP
No they didn't try for the PO, Lieberman shut it down before it started. Let the people speak about uponit7771 Jul 2019 #1

uponit7771

(90,347 posts)
1. No they didn't try for the PO, Lieberman shut it down before it started. Let the people speak about
Mon Jul 22, 2019, 09:03 PM
Jul 2019

... the PO and then let them see Republicans shut it off.

MFA isn't smart at all ... give people the option it will be the same effect eventually.

Also, the major cost isn't in insurance payments, it's how much we people pharma, doctors and corporate hospital groups.

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