Quote Originally Posted by pixelfixed View Post
I hope I live long enough to see the feds take over and control american medicine,the entire medical complex of this country,it is sub par as it is compared to alot of countrys.
Is going to get alot worse.
What does the ACA (affordable care act, ObamaCare, etc.) do that makes you think that?
Again, I'm just not familiar enough with the actual health care bill to make this kind of statement (yet).
My vague understanding of it was that it provides decent health care to the needy,
puts certain restrictions in place (such as restricting insurance companies from rejecting patients based on pre-existing conditions),
while reducing cost by maximizing the economies of scales & collective bargaining power.
There was something about the death panels, too.

It was my understanding that people could continue paying for their private insurances, as they have been, and continue to get the health care as in the past.


From a layman's point of view, it all seemed dandy as long as the administration delivers on the promise that the new health care plan was self sufficient -
i.e. the additional cost in providing health care to more Americans would be offset by the reduction of medical bureaucracy and
the inefficiency in the health care/insurance system?

What aspect of American health care is going to get worse?