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QUOTE=Jim in CT;1118793]"So with Obama you had to switch Drs. "
We were told you could keep your doctor or your plan, and we were told the average family's cost would decrease by $2500 a year. Atta boy, Columbo.
I cannot believe the GOP is thinking of implementing a plan that would take away insurance from that many. If it's true, shame on them. If it's not true, shame on the media for spreading the news.[/QUOTE]
I am not a fan of the Federal Government regulating health care. Americans have always had a soft heart for the down and out. Even during the depression. There were stories then of hobos traveling the trains across the country who would get handouts from folks along the way. My father-in-law did that. He didn't starve. America has always had a "safety net" through charity AND by local governments providing it. The most affordable care, and in some ways the best, has been through charity and local governments. And that has also been the greatest motivation for those, who were capable, to be motivated to get back on their feet and fend for themselves. What has happened with the Federal Government taking more and more control of charity is that it has become too expensive, a massive burden on the economy, a motivation for the entire health care industry along with the rest of the government charity bureaucracy to charge the unlimited pockets of the Federal Government in a never ending upward cycle of rising costs. And to encourage a large segment of our population to remain in the comfortable safety net rather than to struggle to get free of it. Health care has been a sort of finishing touch for making that personal trap of comfortable dependence to be possible. That massive centralized safety net has also been a factor for importing massive numbers of low wage and poorly educated "workers" in order to supposedly to do the work that American's supposedly would not do. Before the overgrown Federal safety net, Americans DID do the work. When the necessities of a comfortable life as well as some leisure amenities are provided at the same or better rate than getting them by working at the bottom of the scale, motivation for many to move out of the net dissipates. And the massive numbers of low wage immigrants will breed a high rate of future dependents.
If the goal was noble, the result has been destructive of an American spirit which was embarrassed to be on any kind of dole and would take any work to get out of it.
As for the Republican's health care bill, the only thing I like about there even being one is that the ACA will eventually be gone. And, if it passes and over time sheds itself of most of its Federal Government involvement, the American people may be forced to retrieve some lost personal responsibility for their own lives. Some call it freedom. But some think that is overrated. A nation that walks on its knees with its hands out is not great.
At any rate, after that rant, no-one will be having their insurance taken away under the bill. It removes the mandate, so will be voluntary. Those who will create the number who don't have insurance will be those who choose not to. But the bill is merely a first step, hopefully, of returning health care charity back to the people and their local and state governments. Who knows, politicians and the central bureaucracy being what they and it are, it may just get twisted by future politicians into an even more centralized behemoth. Our children will have their work cut out for them.
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