Poll: Is Obamacare good or bad for Americans?

[Ricter]

Quote from Scataphagos:

Stated another way, "You are lucky enough to live in a country where SOME OTHER CITIZEN IS FORCED TO PAY FOR YOUR HEALTH CARE..."

That doesn't make your country's health care system good for everybody or generally good.

Look at is from the other side. Presently, some other citizens' property are confiscated to pay for your health care. What if it were the other way around? What if YOUR property were confiscated to pay for somebody else's health care? Would you still fell "lucky"??

Why do you assume he's not paying into his country's health insurance?

 

[BSAM]

It's good for the USA because it will help us to declare bankruptcy sooner (we're already bankrupt), so that we can print new currency (if it isn't already printed and being stored) and get on the gold standard.

 

[BSAM]

It could be, though, that Obama might implement some cost cutting measures such that our declared bankruptcy could be delayed.

Like for example, he might declare that anyone over 50 will be refused treatment at medical facilities inside the USA.

Of course, his family, congress and staffers and their families will be exempted.

 

[BSAM]

Don't laugh, he changes Obamacare as he sees fit.
Constitutionally, he can do that.

I'm talking about the Obama version of the constitution.

 

[RedDuke]

All pure speculation now. Let's see how it works over next 5 years at least.

 

[HeSaidSheSaid]

Quote from vicirek:

It depends which Americans you are talking about. Obamacare as all socialist agendas is about politics and not health care. It will empower their political base, their supporters and their friends and will hurt those who potentially might support their political enemies. The answer is simple. Obamacare is bad for economy and for health care. In general the idea of better access and less costly access to health care services is not so bad but it is implemented by dishonest and corrupt people for reasons other then improving health care of the nation.

yet people in the Obama's political base don't realize Obamacare would make them poorer. though Mr. Obama is going around country to tell American people that he's bringing the good thing to them, but in reality, Obamacare brings burden to Americans and businesses.

1) it imposes financial burden and fines on businesses. it would make it more expensive to run business in the US.

2) it also impedes on growth of many businesses (the 40-45 workers requirement). As you know how important small businesses is to the US economy.

2) At personal level, If you don't comply with Obamacare, you’ll be hit with new tax penalties and possibly, jail time.

if one doesn't have the need for something, government shouldn't force him or her to buy it.... Self-reliance and discipline will make America strong as a nation!

if you have time, drop Mr. Obama a line to tell him how you feel about the Obamacare.

http://www.whitehouse.gov

 

[Lucrum]

Quote from RedDuke:

All pure speculation now. Let's see how it works over next 5 years at least.

You have reason to believe it will/can work out better than all the other federally <s>managed</s> fucked up programs?

 

[LEAPup]

Quote from RedDuke:

All pure speculation now. Let's see how it works over next 5 years at least.

Why should be we want to give 5 minutes, no less 5 years to an UNCONSTITUTIONAL, government created law, forcing us to buy a product from a third party, when the democrat who wrote the law calls it a train wreck?

 

[Mercor]

Quote from futurecurrents:

It's too soon to tell, and anyone who says otherwise is smoking crack.....or is a Republican. Same thing.

It is certainly good for people with pre-existing conditions and for people under 26 and for people who get very very sick, as they now don't have to go bankrupt because of bad luck.

It's also good for the insurance industry who wouldn't be needed with a single payer system. But the asshole Republicans won't allow that.

Why do we need to upend the whole system for 650,000 people with preexisting conditions.
I am sure there is a simpler way to do this.
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Another Democratic analysis, released last fall by Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.), then the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said that between 2007 and 2009, the nation's four largest private health insurers denied coverage to about 650,000 people based on their medical history.
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[Scataphagos]

Quote from Mercor:

Why do we need to upend the whole system for 650,000 people with preexisting conditions.
I am sure there is a simpler way to do this.
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Another Democratic analysis, released last fall by Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.), then the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said that between 2007 and 2009, the nation's four largest private health insurers denied coverage to about 650,000 people based on their medical history.
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650,000 is about 0.2% of the population. Hosing everybody is not the solution.