http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/08/05/obamacare-successful-when-states-care-more-for-citizens-than-ideology/
States that, thus far, have decided to implement both their own healthcare exchanges and the Obamacare expansion of Medicaid, have shown better pricing and cost savings than expected.
These states have acknowledged that there is a severe healthcare problem in the United States and that the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is the only program since the inception of this country to attempt to provide universal healthcare insurance to the vast majority of its citizens.It is neither perfect nor necessarily the best option, but it was the only politically viable solution given the moneyed interests controlling America’s politics.From President Theodore Roosevelt through George W. Bush, presidents have attempted to materially improve and make America’s healthcare system more humane. A few had successes in making the system incrementally better, but they all failed in creating a comprehensive national program to provide universal healthcare.President Obama has been criticized by most for the compromises he made to achieve these goals. Anyone following the history of all the attempts must conclude that the success in achieving the Affordable Care Act was genius.
but the republicans said it was an abomination that would kill the economy, if they leave any economy to kill, your cost are going up, doctors will flee, lines like the republicans created this election cycle, you'll be stuck with strange doctors, so MR. Beohner is it genius or abomination, never understood how making sue millions who other wise couldn't afford it and lessen premiums for existing and no more preexisting gets to be an abomination do you?
it took this Pres. to get Bin Laden, health care, fair pay these were things that were never accomplished until this PRES. AND THE BIGGIE HE DID IT WITHOUT RIGHT WING SUPPORT WHICH REALLY POKES THEM IN THE EYE.
The genius in achieving the passage of Obamacare is immediately evident after reading the transcribed talk titled “A Brief History: Universal Health Care Efforts in the US” given by Karen S. Palmer MPH, MS, at the Physicians For A National Health Program (PNHP) meeting in San Francisco in 1999. The talk revealed the headwinds that have blown over every president attempting to pass some form of universal healthcare. Doctor associations, insurance industry, unions, and other groups have always created opposition in some combination that guaranteed failure. She described the reason for failure as follows.“Political naiveté on the part of the reformers in failing to deal with the interest group opposition, ideology, historical experience, and the overall political context all played a key role in shaping how these groups identified and expressed their interests.”In effect, the very compromises President Obama has been knocked for are the compromises that allowed the passage of the Affordable Care Act. It was a running start that will need modification, but the president is cognizant of this fact and stated that much in the State Of The Union Speech on January 25th, 2011:“Now, I have heard rumors that a few of you still have concerns about our new health care law. (Laughter.) So let me be the first to say that anything can be improved. If you have ideas about how to improve this law by making care better or more affordable, I am eager to work with you. We can start right now by correcting a flaw in the legislation that has placed an unnecessary bookkeeping burden on small businesses. (Applause.)“What I’m not willing to do — what I’m not willing to do is go back to the days when insurance companies could deny someone coverage because of a preexisting condition. (Applause.)
as much as they try to deny him his props the greater it makes him look as he did it without them, that must hurt to know you are insignificant and not really needed. try as they might they won't take away his bona fides they'll just show themselves to be republicans.
