By: Paul Gessing

Paul Gessing — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 21:47:15 +0000

For starters, 43 percent of the uninsured are likely uninsured by choice. You also have millions of immigrants, some of whom are here legally and some illegally. Why should American taxpayers be responsible for them? Lastly, if we restored the price function within a health care marketplace and reduced the number of unnecessary regulations and cost-shifting under Medicare and Medicaid, we'd have a large portion of our health care problem fixed. ObamaCare only exacerbates the worst aspects of our current health care system while not resolving the issue of inability to access needed health care.

By: William B Pratt, MD

William B Pratt, MD — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:05:20 +0000

Dr, Waldman explained his opposition to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), now being considered by the US Supreme Court. He writes that the USA has a critically ill health care system and the ACA will not help. “We need to start practicing good medicine on health care”, he says.
Most other commentaries, that I have read in recent years about our health care insurance situation, begin by pointing out that 40-50 million Americans have no health care insurance coverage and millions more are underinsured. Those millions of our neighbors live and work every day knowing that a serious illness or injury will bring loss of assets or bankruptcy.
In 2010 a majority of the members of the US Congress passed a wide ranging health care insurance reform bill, the ACA. The goal was to increase the number of Americans with adequate health care insurance. The ACA is a reflection of the value that members of our community should cooperate and protect one another from the financial costs of serious illness through an insurance plan to which everyone contributes.
The election of 2010 changed the composition of the US House of Representatives so that a majority of members now are opposed to the ACA. If the repeal effort is successful, millions of working Americans will remain on their own and out of luck.

Comments on: Patients Are Losers in Health Care Law

By: Paul Gessing

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