Americans need real health care

NEEDED:  Real Health Care for Americans...

 

In the US whatever health care program we accept and provide should cover Americans COMPLETELY, no co-pays, no out of pocket expenses, no hidden costs.  Affordable Care Act, a.k.a., Obamacare, does not work for many Americans despite what is said about it.

Medicare is the closest program that works for most Americans who use it, but there are still additional costs and Medicare only pays 80% of all costs accepted by Medicare.  The remaining 20 percent must be paid by the recipient.  Yes, you could always get an additional Medicare Supplement that would pay the remaining 20 percent, but you still have to pay the premium for it.

Remember, those on Medicare still need to buy medication out of pocket or via a Medicare Rx Program.

The truth is that affordable health care is still NOT affordable.

Those who worked most of their lives have paid into the Medicare program.  Those who are Medicare recipients continue to pay a small premium and deductible each year to remain on it, yet none are completely covered.

Although I don't support him for President, like Bernie Sanders I believe a Medicare for All approach is the best option for Americans, although the health care industry would fight that to the death... our death.


We still need a real health care solution that works for most Americans.  Medicare for All is the start of that solution.

Time to heal America and to provide for American Citizens first

Both parties share the responsibility for screwing the American people regarding most of the issues, e.g., border security, 30 million illegals living in the shadows, the economy, no jobs, education, high taxes, higher debt to other nations, is there health care after Obamacare?, and many other issues...

Both parties bicker and whine at each other and blame each other for all of Society's ills.

Both parties share the responsibility for screwing the American people.

Both parties want the votes of 30 million illegals after amnesty is provided to them.

SAY "NO" TO AMNESTY!!!

Americans need leaders who know what they are doing and what they need to do to change things for the better for the American people.

Americans first, before Illegal and Legal Immigrants!  That should be common sense.  Don’t give criminal behavior a free pass.

The parties need to work together and rebuild the America we used to know and love.'

Right now we are turning into a 3rd World Nation.

Where, oh where, is our tax relief???

Obama Lullaby... or Lament

 

So, where is the tax relief for the remnants of the middle class?

... as promised and promised and promised by the Great Obama???

Where is it?

 

Did it go to Obama's new set of golf clubs?

Pelosi's face lift?

Reid's eye surgery?

Rick Perry’s brain surgery?

Where is the middle class tax relief?

I can't see it.

The IRS can't see it!

So, where is it?

Why the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a.k.a., Obamacare bites the big one!

The ACA was rammed through Congress like poop through a duck!

Many people think they like it.  Many are liberals who think it's the greatest deal in the world for poor people, so they can afford to buy health care.

I'm here to tell you that the Affordable Care Act STINKS!!!

Because:

We were told the premiums would be significantly lower and they are NOT.

We were NOT told that out-of-pocket expenses would increase dramatically.

We were NOT told that yearly deductibles would escalate absurdly from where they were around $250 per year way up to a high of $15,000 per year, depending on what sort of coverage you want and what premium you want.

We were NOT told about all the hidden costs we would have to pay for services and that we wouldn't know about them until we are billed by doctors, hospitals, et. al.

The AFA is a terrible concept and it is failing Americans on most levels.

If you want to pay a small premium for poor coverage, it is possible to get a slight deal.

We were told that insurance companies must cover preexisting conditions; however, many people are finding that their preexisting conditions are either NOT covered or they must PAY MUCH MORE to have it covered.

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IS THAT ENOUGH FOR YOU AS TO WHY THE ACA STINKS FOR MOST AMERICANS???

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Furthermore, health care providers are playing end-around games with patients and charging more for their goods and services, plus, the costs are rising every 6 months!

If Obama and Congress wanted to provide everyone with cheaper insurance they should have extended Medicare for all Americans.

People could have been charged the same amounts Medicare recipients are paying for the same Medicare benefits and affordable deductibles.

It's all a fight to pull-in the mighty dollar!

But, the health providers would throw a major fit.  They couldn't charge high premiums and deductibles; they couldn't charge elevated costs for medications; they would have to take in less profit under a Medicare for All program.

Medicare works well for most people on it; it is a proven system and they had it right in front of Obama's nose!!!

Health care was much better BEFORE Obama sold our nation a bill of goods.  It was cheaper and more affordable.

Both President Obama and his Obamacare have been a HUGE disappointment.  Interestingly, many people still don’t know it, but in time they will.

A few words of truth on the 2014-midterm elections

The 'sheeple' never learn that it doesn't really matter if the majority in House and Senate is Republican or Democrat.    The 2-party system has failed Americans and it will continue to do so.

The gaming of liberal vs. conservative doesn't translate into any victories for the American people.

Congress is still the "do-nothing" Congress that we all hate.

 - Peter Stern

Social Security and Medicare Programs

Social Security and Medicare Programs

Social Security and Medicare are good, worthwhile and even noble programs that most people pay into their entire working lives to collect benefits when they become elderly or disabled.

Naturally there is abuse in each program by people who try to milk the system, but that is a relatively small percent of the population. Every system isn't perfect, but SS and Medicare are near perfect systems.

One of the main issues with SS is that our Congress continues to permit diversion of collected SS tax dollars to other interests. That needs to stop immediately.

In addition, and I'm sorry to say this but it's true, we need to start replacing some of those deficit tax dollars by slightly increasing the SS and Medicare taxes taken out of our paychecks.  Congress should be forced to return the tax dollars it stole from the SS fund.

Medicare is a perfect example of what we should have accomplished for ALL Americans. It is a system that has been active for decades and for the most part is extremely successful for most recipients.

The Federal Government must institute quicker payments to the medical and pharmaceutical providers, but otherwise the system works.

Naturally, the health care providers don't love Medicare because they can't get paid as much under Medicare as they do under private health care or even Obamacare.

However, Medicare is used mostly by the elderly and/or disabled who have paid tax dollars into the system all of their working lives.

Both SS and Medicare have been proven successful by most standards and by making a few updates and corrections to each program, there is no reason why each cannot continue to remain successful.

The Hoopla about the Affordable Care Act

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the same thing as “Obama-care” but a lot of people still don’t know that.  Polls show that people may like the ACA but don’t like Obamacare.  Go figure.

Systems speaking, there are always glitches and problems with new systems whether in the private sector or in government. As with most new systems, for the most part we have a parallel [health care] system running until the bugs are taken out of the new system.

I was not for the ACA, but I also recognize all the finger-pointing at the new system is yet another political avenue for those against it to rally together to create unnecessary attacks in the hope to somehow eliminate "Obamacare" but it will not happen that way.

The ACA is a major law that must now be continued and fixed along the way, until it is proven to be a bad law that does not help or work for the majority of people. When that happens it will be and should be removed from law by the very people it was supposed to help --- the voters.

Republicans and Democrats need to stop the in-house fighting for every issue under the sun. People need government to work for them and not for the benefits to elected and appointed officials and their special interests. That said, government needs to get out of regulating our daily lives. At the Federal, State and Local levels, government is dictating how we should live much more than it has in the past. It needs to stop.

Extremism at either end of the political and economic spectrums is what is destroying the America we once knew and loved. Once upon a time in America we used to work together, but that was then and this is now. There doesn't seem to be much hope that it will change soon.

"Government Shutdown"

The "government shutdown" is a symptom of everything that is wrong with our Congress and government.

Both parties continue to fail Americans.  If you take sides in this absurdity you are part of the problem and not the resolution. Interesting to note that Congress still gets paid, while government employees may lose their jobs. I personally plan to vote in all new blood into the House and Senate, as a small statement that the old ways must go.  We need a new era of intelligent problem solving and not what currently serves Washington.  We need leaders to rise up and plan for the community good and not for their own special interests.  The democrats are wrong, the republicans are wrong and so is President Obama.