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originally posted by: Annee
Do you support a national healthcare system?
It isn't Obamacare. It would be anything. I doubt most those who say they'd support something else would, if it actually happened. I think those who are against a national healthcare system would reject any and every plan put in front of them.
I think it's pretty much, ME, ME, ME. I think a lot depends on your own and family experience with illness and medical.
I'm old enough to remember when company insurance was really good. I had my moms, then my husbands, and my own when I was working. I mostly had Aetna, which used to be really good. Then their prices doubled and their coverage was cut, pretty much in half.
Even though I had really good insurance, it cost me a thousands out of pocket. You know that show "Medical Miracle"? Where after years and years of going to doctors the patient finally finds a doctor that correctly diagnosis them? Well, that was me. I had a birth defect that went undetected until I was 50. It caused all kinds of problems that are non-reversible. Now I have Medicare. Not great, but something.
Obamacare is not the "end all, end all", but it is something. And people need something.
Those against insurance coverage for everyone, most likely don't see the need. I see the need.
originally posted by: Annee
a reply to: Sunwolf
Yeah, well, I'm someone who's old enough to have gone from home visit doctors, to companies actually taking care of their employees before they were just a number, to HMOs, and now Medicare, with Medicare cuts, and more and more doctors refusing to take Medicare.
I still support a National Healthcare and what we have now is ACA.
Imagine how doctors might actually get on board if they weren't subjected to all the negativity and misinformation.
ALL politicians working together for positive results. What a concept.
In my life I've never before seen such childish behavior in government.
originally posted by: Annee
I still support a National Healthcare and what we have now is ACA.
originally posted by: Annee
Imagine how doctors might actually get on board if they weren't subjected to all the negativity and misinformation.
ALL politicians working together for positive results. What a concept.
In my life I've never before seen such childish behavior in government.
It isn't just the Republicans stonewalling the Democrats that is the problem. Democrats are refusing to listen to anything the Republicans say, even it if is helpful, because they've all done what you did in this thread and write them off as unhelpful.
originally posted by: Annee
a reply to: Sunwolf
Yeah, well, I'm someone who's old enough to have gone from home visit doctors, to companies actually taking care of their employees before they were just a number, to HMOs, and now Medicare, with Medicare cuts, and more and more doctors refusing to take Medicare.
I still support a National Healthcare and what we have now is ACA.
Imagine how doctors might actually get on board if they weren't subjected to all the negativity and misinformation.
ALL politicians working together for positive results. What a concept.
In my life I've never before seen such childish behavior in government.