17 Million Of The Poorest People Won't Be Covered By Obamacare

[robby]

The monolithic program, that will cost society 1.5 trillion dollars. doesn't cover the poorest in society. Obama wanted to have the states cover them under Medicaid (edit), but many states can't afford to, and now the Supreme Court has ruled the states can't be obligated.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/30/us/politics/some-states-reluctant-over-medicaid-expansion.html?_r=1&hp

Comments

[robby.livejournal.com]

So the point of imposing a staggering, unprecedented middle-class tax was social engineering? A more elegant solution would be a means to provide low-cost health care for those presently uninsured. A plan that would address the ridiculous cost of health care.

[mallorys-camera.livejournal.com]

I totally agree! I've never understood why "health care reform" addressed insurance and not the actual delivery of health care. Seems to me you could lower health care costs dramatically and immediately merely by empowering Physicians' Assistants and Nurse Practitioners to take over many physician functions pertaining to general health.

Implementations like that have never even been part of the discussion.

The AMA is a very powerful labor union.

[robby.livejournal.com]

My Dad had the finest health insurance imaginable, but received very poor medical care, care that cost his insurer about a half million dollars. At the end, his hospice nurse was shocked at the medical malpractice, but I was too exhausted to file complaints. I was getting still recieving copies of invoices for delayed charges, three months after he died.

[mallorys-camera.livejournal.com]

A very common story, unfortunately. Doctors and hospital look on that last six months as the gravy train. And when you're beaten down with grief, you just can't fight the good fight against them.

[a1icey.livejournal.com]

i really agree with this. there are nurses i've met that i'd like to book appointments with. but they do not stand alone. so when i had my blood drawn last december i couldn't go back to the nurse who had done it the first time without hurting me, and ended up fainting and vomiting.