Curious what everyone thinks on Obama care being mandated next year, what are your feelings on it?
Varying, really. Most first world countries have very similar plans in place and (for the most part) work decently. The problem is is the other countries made there reforms in more stable financial times and we're doing ours in unstable times. It was said that our premiums would go down, but I expect them to go up. I have privatized health insurance and it's gone from 190 to 220 in the last year alone. And I was interested to see someone else saying the same thing earlier in this thread.
Here's the thing though-
if you think healthcare was working fine before the AHCA was introduced, you're completely naive (or ignorant) to why it hasn't been for a long time. Very few people who were being treated by doctors and going to the ER were paying their bills-- either because they couldn't or they just bailed on it because they knew they wouldn't be turned away. Trips to these are ludicrously expensive for people who are uninsured. Why did it cost 2000$+ for a doctor to do 10-15 seconds of work to pop my shoulder back into place? Why did it cost me 700$+ to wait 2 hours in the ER to talk to a doctor about a neck problem for less than 5 minutes? These are no exhaggerations! I couldn't get health insurance at the time due to a pre-existing condition, so when I was injured, I had no other choice. Imagine what would happen if I had a 5 or 6 digit bill! The system is laughably ridiculous. Something needed to be done about that.
At this point I just hope some good comes out of it. I do not want what happened to me to happen to others. It's completely unfair to pay that much, so if the reform can pillow me from that crap as well as others, I'm fine with it.
News flash for both of you. America IS bankrupt, and has been for some time. Financial collapse is imminent, and planned. Simple truth. You had best be prepared for the chaos that is inevitable once it happens, and it will, because as I said, it has been planned this way for a long time. Wake up. If you aren't storing food, supplies, and weapons, and developing a plan to deal with it, to include escaping into hiding, then you are a damn fool, period. Obama will be our last president, I guarantee it. War is coming to the states, and the enemy is right here at home. Truth!
You make it seem like Obama will be the cause of the Mad Max-style post apocalyptic world. And if everyone thought like you, I'm sure it would happen! Fortunately most of us aren't fearmongering survivalists, so you may go back to your fallout shelter and lock the vault door. We'll continue watching the future unfold out here with a little optimism.