CBO Fires Another Torpedo At Obamacare

[fskimospy]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
I hope he doesn't bend. If he doesn't, I wonder if he'll need a new job soon.

You're dreaming. Obama's health care plan is extremely likely to pass, and even if it doesn't I have a hard time imagining a situation where he doesn't win re-election in 2012.

 

[quest55720]

Originally posted by: eskimospy

Originally posted by: Skoorb
I hope he doesn't bend. If he doesn't, I wonder if he'll need a new job soon.

You're dreaming. Obama's health care plan is extremely likely to pass, and even if it doesn't I have a hard time imagining a situation where he doesn't win re-election in 2012.

You mean Nancy Pelosi's health care plan right? Obama turned it over to the congress to do. Now if you think Obama will step up to the plate with a bill that is based on what he campaigned on then sure it will pass.

 

[fskimospy]

Originally posted by: quest55720

Originally posted by: eskimospy

Originally posted by: Skoorb
I hope he doesn't bend. If he doesn't, I wonder if he'll need a new job soon.

You're dreaming. Obama's health care plan is extremely likely to pass, and even if it doesn't I have a hard time imagining a situation where he doesn't win re-election in 2012.

You mean Nancy Pelosi's health care plan right? Obama turned it over to the congress to do. Now if you think Obama will step up to the plate with a bill that is based on what he campaigned on then sure it will pass.

No, I don't mean Nancy Pelosi's health care plan.

 

[ebaycj]

Originally posted by: senseamp

Originally posted by: Doc Savage Fan

Originally posted by: JayhaVVKU
Burn it down, hit the reset button, start from scratch, and insert any similar cliche here.

The problems with health care will not be fixed by slapping a band-aid on it. The problem is with health care is a social problem. People still see it as a commodity to be paid for like electricity, gas, and rent.

Health care should be a right. Eliminate the profit aspects. Give doctor's quality wages and great incentives to be doctors. Fund it with taxpayer money at a fraction of what individuals pay for current health premiums. Get rid of the pharma stranglehold on pricing. Regulate it.

Presto!

Sounds great! Where do I sign? /s

Probably will have to wait for current system to collapse for this type of single payer plan to happen. The healthcare industry is not going to take a 40% pay cut without a fight. These are people accustomed to taking 18% cut of GDP, eager to expand it to 20%, they won't settle for 10% like other countries.

So, if we are the only ones stupid enough to pay 18%, and we go ahead and regulate it down to 10% so it is in-line with other countries, where else will the healthcare industry go to get their 20%?

They won't be able to go anywhere else, because nobody else would even think of paying them that much. Seems to me they'd just have to take their 10% and like it.