Healthcare Question: If we don't force people to get coverage....Who pays if they get sick or injured??

Spot on! How are people not more pissed / concerned about these facts? For 7 years the GOP argued strongly against the ACA. But, it's now clear that they have zero ideas that are reality based to deal with our healthcare problems. I don't want to minimize the fact that the US healthcare system has some very real problems but it seems that the GOP doesn't have any real solutions. Given the amount or time and $$$$ the house GOP has wasted in arguing against the ACA--they should ALL be removed from office for incompetence.

So lemme get this straight, you spend 8 years screeching about how horrid the ACA is, but when you have The House, The Senate, and the POTUS you can't cobble together a plan to replace this "horrid" thing you have been railing against, and so now after being caught flat footed, your answer is "well nobody knew healthcare was so complicated?"

You guys are fools and charlatans. This steaming pile of dog $hit impersonating as an administration can't end soon enough.

quickndirty wrote:

TroLLminator wrote:

You forgot to include 3) Americans are fat, inactive, sick, and addicted to meds... just the way insurers and pharmas like it. This is a circular issue, but in the US the circle is just much bigger with more players.

That stuff doesn't matter. Something like the sickest 15% of the population accounts for like 85% of the costs. Those are people that need 24/7 nursing care, nursing homes, congenital conditions, etc.. You could pay for all the routine stuff, including the diseases of obesity and the pill poppers for what a few traumatic brain injuries and nursing home patients cost.

We like to think that as runners we are not just more healthy, but morally superior to those that are not active, but you can eat all the kale you want and run 100 mpw but are still going to get old and die.

Very valid points.

Paragraphs are useful things.

Agreed, Old SMTC SOB clearly needs help in framing his thoughts, his uni-paragraph is difficult to read.

The viable solution is simple. Universal health care, which is what the original idea for Obamacare was, before compromise. Stop trying to confuse the issue. Make the pool bigger and we all will win. Make the pool smaller and we all lose. It ain't that hard, because math is math.

Stop trying to make this hard.

This is really simple!!! Have Mexico pay for it.

It's simple: if you need healthcare, YOU pay for it YOURSELF.

no one can afford to pay for catastrophic health conditions that occur randomly throughout the population

GOP deep thinker wrote:

[quote]Hope this is not dumb question wrote:

What if these people don't have money to pay for their services? Is this cost factored into the Republican plan? Are there any estimates on this cost?

The solution is simple. Two words: FREE MARKET. Here's the plan....

1) US Healthcare is a mess.

2) Solution: free market!

3) ?????

4) Profit

Why does everybody think healthcare is so complicated? EVERYTHING in life is black and white, very simple, and can be fully explained in 140 characters or less.

You are so wrong. Health care is a right not a privilege. Almost every other developed country has single payer. You pay taxes and people all get healthcare. The US system is more expensive and less effective than almost any other developed country. Why does the US always think they can build a better system on their own. The rest of the world has figured it out. Kids from poor parents deserve the same health care as Trump's kids.