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re: What is the REAL reason we can not go back to the old healthcare system.
Posted on 7/19/17 at 9:52 am to 5thTiger
Posted on 7/19/17 at 9:52 am to 5thTiger
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The cost of medical machinery has ballooned with new technology, not unlike an iPhone.
iPhones are a bad example. they're so cheap (compared to their utility and status) that poor people buy them quite often
but to get back to your point. your argument is that costs have increased. this wasn't the argument behind implementing the ACA
the argument, primarily, was "23 million uninsured people" and the ACA itself really doesn't do anything to address costs (especially technology-based costs
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Posted on 7/19/17 at 10:00 am to SlowFlowPro
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your argument is that costs have increased. this wasn't the argument behind implementing the ACA
the argument, primarily, was "23 million uninsured people" and the ACA itself really doesn't do anything to address costs
Maybe, but you can't take one without the other. Medical costs in the 21st century have ballooned. Going back to the "90's system" without going back to 90's tech is attempting to take the best of both worlds. It would be like saying, why cant we have the same gas price they had in the 1920's with the same cars with good gas mileage today?
Fact is, you could go back I guess. But it wouldn't be like what you remember.
Posted on 7/19/17 at 10:06 am to SlowFlowPro
No, the argument was 46 million people were without health insurance and rising and the system in place was leading us to continue to pay more and more (both in healthcare share of GDP and cost per capita) while fewer and fewer people had health insurance and more and more people were bankrupted by health expenses. That rarely happens in universal systems.
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