“Maybe not the government but we spend more on healthcare than any other nation.”

Before Obama care when people said that they said it insultingly, forgetting one thing.
We got more out of our health care system than any other nation. Because we paid for it and demanded it.
Granted our prices did go up every year for various reasons, not the least of which were legal problems, unions, unregulated education systems, and not the least of which were patients ever increasing expectations of the medical system.

Granted ours could have done with a huge amount of fixing to make things better for the masses but in the end the ACA addressed none of the real problems and instead is just hoping that if everyone pays the problems will go away.

“The incompetent (or worse) Congress has created a Frankenstein’s Monster of a law (Obama’s Monster), and now it is out of control, destroying our livelihoods, liberties, and happiness.”

The Chief Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States Of America disagrees vehemently with you.

How can that be? How can what should be a reasonable and highly educated Chief Justice disagree with what is plain to see?

Rates used to climb because you were getting older, regulations were making healthcare cost more, and various smaller reasons, such as an increased number of people skipping out on their emergency room debts and filing bankruptcy over expensive life-saving procedures.

Now the rates are climbing because of overregulation, requirements that almost all doctor-visits and procedures be covered rather than just catastrophic coverage (which I used to have, because it was less expensive and I didn’t sweat the small stuff), and even less participation by the relatively healthy as they increasingly realize that it is less expensive to go self-insured than to pay the skyrocketing premiums.

The irony is that the ACA was written because about 400,000 households were selling their houses or filing for bankruptcy due to expensive life-saving procedures, but now these households are still not able to afford the even more unaffordable premiums, meaning that they continue to lose their houses and credit ratings. The law failed to do good, which is one reason that the SCOTUS thought that they should “fix” it.

Meanwhile, the rest of society, including our work ethic, our incomes, our savings, our liberties and constitutional rights, the American Dream, and a pack of other American cultures and traditions are being eroded or destroyed by this heinous law.

The incompetent (or worse) Congress has created a Frankenstein’s Monster of a law (Obama’s Monster), and now it is out of control, destroying our livelihoods, liberties, and happiness.

exchanges have been tried before, and eventually collapse because they can’t find enough healthy people to help spread the costs out.

If you have kids those are typically the only ones you can cover through the exchange. the top earner level is so low, working adults have to find a bronze plan elsewhere. Assurant here in Wisconsin was great, but they are closing shop all together (>1000 ppl out of work) so expect there to be only two insurers.
For the record, I love Blue Cross Blue Shield, but I doubt they are going to be around for any length of time any more. The sickening feeling that the HMO model for health insurance will be the last man standing should give us all pause.

Like him or loath him, because of things like this posted below that he says the PEOPLE of America are hearing him and they agree with him. Both Democrat and Republican leadership, professional politicians all, trade individual Americans freedoms and our country’s sovereignty away for their own short term gains. And that is not acceptable and like it or not this is the one man that is calling them out for what they are, ball-less political tools.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/07/06/trump-on-criminal-illegals-both-sides-need-to-grow-up-and-put-americas-interests-first/

At the least he will drive a very useful and politically uncomfortable conversation leading up to the 2016 election, and at the max? Who knows, just let him serve a purpose.

Politicians will blame greedy insurance companies but just remember that no rate hikes take place without government approval.

Same goes for utilities here.

Don’t need to go through an Obamacare exchange to do that unless you want subsidies.

“But its not costing the Government as much as a full on total socialized system would.”

Maybe not the government but we spend more on healthcare than any other nation.

“Sort of like a tax but not a tax.”

It is only constitutional as a tax and that is how it got through SCOTUS despite the administration arguing that it wasn’t a tax.

Granted the people are still paying more than ever and being forced to do it to boot. Sort of like a tax but not a tax.