Obamacare fails to address the fundamental problem, namely that HEALTH CARE COSTS TOO MUCH AND KEEPS COSTING MORE AND MORE. This has to do with economics and the way our existing system incentivises raising costs instead of cutting them.
Take a look at your own health care/health insurance bills over the last couple years. Have they gone up or down? (Mine have definitely gone up.) And even though we're paying more, are we getting better care/coverage? (I'm not.) Do these increased costs somehow make us healthier?
The fact is we don't get nearly the same bang for our buck as they do in, say, France (which has a universal system).
"The US spends more per capita on publicly funded health care than almost any other country in the developed world. And that includes countries that provide free health care to all their citizens."
- NY Times
While some of its features may help certain people, on balance Obamacare is a step in the wrong direction. We voted for change, but instead we got a marginal tweak that further entrenches the status quo.
The system was broken before and it remains broken. The republicans and democrats have BOTH failed us. It is clear that they don't work for us; they work for themselves and the monied interests that fund their campaigns.
We, the American people, gave these corrupt parties their power. We can take it back!
--Dan Colgate
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