The tidal wave commeth

[Charlie M.]

8 Reasons ObamaCare is an Epic Disaster

[cbelt3]

A lot of speculation and uncertainty. Reality ? NOBODY FREAKING KNOWS. Well... California does, and they're happy with their state exchange. But any state that wimped out and left exchanges to the federal government are facing the Great Unknown.

I don't recommend clicking on that bit of FUD bait.

[SteveG]

Do you support single-payer "charlie m"? Aren't you are reaching the age where single-payer Medicare kicks in?

[michaelb]

I only got to #4; the site was too slow and too stupid to click further. Are there going to be implementation issues with the ACA; sure. But it is still the most significant and most important social policy change of the last 50 years or so. So yes it is difficult and yes it will take time.

You can't even possibly imagine the complexity and disruption of implementing single payer nationally, so this is a cake walk compared to that (since that would include repealing Medicare and Medicaid and prohibiting private insurance in some fashion).

[haikuman]

One reason this post is dumber than toast *(:>*

[cbelt3]

but toast floats on a tidal wave. 'e's a witch !

[Charlie M.]

michaelb wrote:
I only got to #4; the site was too slow and too stupid to click further.

You have to go past an ad (possibly blocked in your browser) to get past reason #4. It only takes a click.

[max]

michaelb wrote:
I only got to #4; the site was too slow and too stupid to click further. Are there going to be implementation issues with the ACA; sure. But it is still the most significant and most important social policy change of the last 50 years or so. So yes it is difficult and yes it will take time.

You can't even possibly imagine the complexity and disruption of implementing single payer nationally, so this is a cake walk compared to that (since that would include repealing Medicare and Medicaid and prohibiting private insurance in some fashion).

Actually, no, the complexity would not be necessary.
Scaling up either of the two existing programs would be a much simpler solution.
Much simpler than Obama's selling out to the Big Insurance..
And much less disruption than ACA. As long as you could realize greater economic system efficiencies, the economic disruption could be quite positive, just like VoIP displacing analog telephony...

[Charlie M.]

Steve G. wrote:
Do you support single-payer "charlie m"? Aren't you are reaching the age where single-payer Medicare kicks in?

Not even close. Between now and the decades that I will be eligible for medicare, the medicare entitlement will no doubt be wiped out thanks to the generational debt the boomers are leaving us.

[Charlie M.]