Only two more years and we will have government-run health care!!!!!
Personally, I do not believe allowing our government, who has us almost sixteen trillion in the hole, running our health care industry is remotely a good idea.
Then again, I am for less government, not more.
This is a huge victory for most Democrats who want more government.
Personally I would have preferred the government to fix the problem as opposed to shoving everyone aside and going hands-on by now running the health care system. And that problem lies with the health insurance companies.
You see, the free market works best when you have many companies competing against one another. When that occurs, products and services are cheaper and of higher quality. When there are only a handful of competitors, those said products and services have a tendency to suffer from poor quality and be more expensive.
Enter the health insurance industry.
In our current health insurance industry, there are very few competitors, and one of the major reasons the health care industry is in such shambles. Because of a lack of competition, they are allowed to get away with charging outrageous prices and engage in other slimy and shady practices.
And because the insurance companies charge so much, they end up making health insurance difficult for citizens and small businesses to afford. So you wind up having many people uninsured. But those uninsured still get sick and need to occasionally go to the hospital. What happens then? We treat them and send them home with a bill they will never be able to repay. And in turn, this causes the price of health insurance to climb higher and higher, which in turn causes fewer and fewer people to afford health insurance.
It is a vicious cycle that only intensifies and gradually becomes worse.
So what does Obama do? Does he fix the specific problem? Does he find a way to stop insurance companies from charging rates and fees most Americans cannot afford?
Nope. He merely decides the best course of action is for the government, who is about as responsible as Lindsay Lohan on a weekend bender, to run our nation's health care system.
This is bad, bad, bad, ladies and gentlemen. Especially in our current medical climate where there are a shortage of doctors in many fields in this country. With the number of insured citizens suddenly skyrocketing, they will be swamped beyond belief. You will also find this will make the patient/doctor relationship far more distant and strained, as well as create a nightmare waiting list for simple operations and procedures. One thing you will see is many of the doctors will simply leave for the private sector to get away with the chaos of the government running the health care show. You see this quite a bit in Britain. Many of the doctors there merely deal in private as opposed to dealing with the nightmare of the dreaded government/insurance company duo.
I am highly disappointed in Obama for choosing to have the government take over and run the health care industry as opposed to fixing the actual problem, which is the insurance companies.
One thing is for certain; this may wind up helping Romney. The vast majority of people in this country were not in favor of the Supreme Court ruling and do not want Obamacare to see the light of day. Romney has already jumped on this bandwagon and promised to repeal it if he becomes president. I am sure many independents and moderates who oppose Obamacare will vote for Romney in hopes he does indeed repeal the ACA. I just hope those people realize Romney cannot repeal Obamacare if he does not have a Republican-majority Senate.
