Quote Originally Posted by Hydaral View Post
I thought they were just adding the government option, not forcing everyone onto it. Granted, I don't exactly know how US healthcare works, except that is apparently not that good, but here in Australia we have public and private healthcare.

One of the private companies is run by the government. Everything seems to be running OK here. I haven't heard that the private companies are complaining that it is unfair that there is a government-run private health insurer and we don't have "death panels" either.
US health care works well for those that it work for.
However if you get disconnected from it for some reason
like moving to another state, changing employers (pre-existing clause)
or get unemployed things go down hill in a hurry.

My X was a nurse working for the health care industry... she had
a major health problem and the company dumped her to a disability
status as fast as they could terminating her insurance. The hospitals
turned all her assets upside down and emptied them leaving her
dependent on the state.

All in all she is still alive which is good but "insurance"
was not the big payer in her care. It is like Vegas,
if you win too much they try to get you drunk and stupid
and if that does not work they will ask you to leave or
at least never let you play on a different table (black book).