• DrunkOldMan
    +5

    I feel the more Obamacare is enacted this scene will play out more and more, people barely making it but now forced to buy insurance will be paying more out of pocket for services and items that would of been 50 times cheaper out of pocket with no insurance at all. Very sad!!!

    • idlethreat
      +11

      I like to think (and perhaps i'm just bizarrely optimistic here) that the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare) did break the healthcare system in a very specific way. Sort of like notching a tree, just to make sure that it will fall in the direction that you want it to. The provisions set will (eventually) help slide the US into a Single Payer healthcare system.

      The man had a lot of extremely smart people put this thing together. Provisions set today will reverberate across the healthcare system for quite a while. Some provisions (like forcing insurance companies to pay out 80% of their income by law) have been a long time coming.

      I don't know if we'll be around to see Single Payer in the States. I hope we do and celebrate the death to horror stories like this one.