Utterly clueless. I, and many others like me are interested in fixing the COST problem, because that will ultimately address access far better than this byzantine bill, which nobody quite understands the ramifications of. You do that by increasing accountability and price transparency, fostering competition amongst insurance companies, getting rid of farm subsidies that promote cheap junk food, and getting rid of excessive tort litigation that forces cover-your-ass medicine. Not a hard concept that requires concessions from the right and the left.
What this bill does is cover a fraction of the "uninsured," the MAJORITY of whom can already afford access but elect not to have it or are aren't legal citizens to begin with. And the trojan horse nature of it will ULTIMATELY force more demand upon the government, requiring a greater subsidy, and ultimately THWARTING competition, thereby RAISING costs, in the same way that medicare has been prohibitably costly and way above projections, which is why the government keeps it "off-balance sheet."
The point about the zoo, wise guy, isn't the ZOO. It's your fellow fat-ass Americans and their choices at the zoo, because they aren't disincentivized in any way to make better choices. And that's going to get worse before it gets better. I used to work in a "wellness" clinic focused on preventative care, fully subsidized. A full 5% stuck with the program. The rest just continued on with their obesity, diabetes, stents, statins, and angioplasties. A disgusting situation. We are not fukking Europe you clowns, though we are rapidly approaching their SUSTAINED levels of double-digit unemployment, which will make demand for medicine even greater IN THIS COUNTRY, a country that already can't pay its bills, a country whose largest state economy is already in default by covenant.
What a waste of time.