Can someone explain the health care bill to me in simple terms?

[Hayabusa Rider]

We've talked about this a bunch before, and you know my feelings on cost and the current state of our system. Of course I want UHC because of it's cost control measures and the fact that it would cover everyone.

What we have on the table is far from perfect, but the lack of anyone to really move to make something better is going to make it the best compromise we get for a while, unfortunately. Oh well, maybe it'll open a door and in 10-15 years or so we can get a real health care system proposed for this country.

Medicaid was a compromise. It's been over 40 years, and it's gotten worse.

Here is the reality of politics. Politicians want precisely one thing and that is to get you to vote for them. The quality of any legislation is immaterial. What counts is their ability to sell it to someone.

There is only one thing that will work, and that starts with an complete evaluation of health care. NOT funding it, but people who actually do it for a living, not write bills in DC. Get consumer advocates, actuaries, legal experts who are peer appointed, not selected by the pols.

At that point we can figure out what can be done. As it is, ramming anything through is the goal. Some say "Hey it can't be any worse than what we have now".

I can tell you from a bunch of years on this planet that saying such a thing is an invitation for something worse. That's how the Universe works. It can ALWAYS get worse.

I don't fault your intent. In fact we probably have many of the same goals. Having seen how politicians really operate in the real world in a past occupation, I can't emphasize how self serving they all are.

To make an apolitical comment about politics, you will be promised the world, and if you think you are going to get it, I've got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you. If you think the Dems are honest, they aren't. If another thinks the Reps are, they aren't.

Here's the real world scoop on it all

"Any government has one primary purpose, and that is to keep itself in power. That governments are occasionally benign does not change that fact"

For "government" think party.
The overriding concern of a Democrat is to stay in office and to keep the party in power. Lest you think that's a shot at Dems, it's the same for the Reps.

Right now the idea as always is to consolidate power, or if the opposition, overthrow those in office. That's it. It's a mindless shark thing.

It is my opinion that the reason that Dems did not do as I suggest is that the possibility of the best options not aligning to strict dogma are worrisome. Politicians might not be able to take as much credit as they might. Perhaps there are good ideas which won't maximally fill the war chest.

You must assume you are being used. Tell me, if you work in an organization and one of your coworkers provides a solution to a problem yet has not performed an expert analysis on the situation you'd laugh at them, right?

Why then is the most complex interplay of systems in the world (aka US health care) treated like it's merely a matter of funding? Would you like to ride on a NASA rocket with the primary goal of design to be as cheap as possible, and that appearance is more important than good engineering practice?

Yet rocket science is child's play in comparison.

When the politicians sit down and first figure out what to do instead of doing something because something is what to do, then I'll look at what's offered.

In the mean time I won't ride a rocket to the stars built by committee, nor accept a binding legal document based on the "think system".