Should Courts Scrap the Affordable Health Care Act?

I don't know too much about Obamacare. So I will not speak on it. What I do know is that I lived in Germany for 14 years and they have government run healthcare with a private option. While I was there I had two major surgeries and since I played sports was at the physician numerous times with bumps and bruises and sprains. All at no cost to me. Even the medication was paid for. When my wife was pregnant with my daughter we never missed an appointment. We were able to select our own Doctor since all Doctors are included in the network. The private option had only one difference. If you had a hospital stay you got a private room. That's about it. Everything else was paid for and from what I understand many of the things that we would pay outside of the government healthcare (Cosmetic surgery) was covered in their health plan. When I came back home to the US. I needed a surgery to remove fatty tissue from the back of my neck. That was 4 years ago and I am still paying a 17,000 + dollar bill, because my insurance called it a pre-existing condition. So since I know that in at least 3 other countries that whose healthcare system is better than ours I was curious as to how Healthcare here in the US ranks with other countries., and this is what I found out.
If the government provides the same healthcare as all Federal employees ( many of the same government officials who are asking to repeal Obamacare enjoy government healthcare because of the jobs they hold. See what they would do if you asked them to discontinue their government healthcare plan and start paying for it themselves and their families.))have available to them, that is an improvement, but not the best we can do. A better solution is for the government to put us all on the same basic coverage as Medicaid, but Federally run rather than State run. The premiums for those not indigent would be lower and the defaults for emergency care of indigent would be significantly less. It would profit us in the long run by having a healthier populace but, more important to business, a healthier workforce and less overhead to figure in the cost of labor for Big Business.

This would make us far more competitive with foreign labor (with the exception of the third world countries who treat their workers and citizens as expendable resources). Real reform in healthcare will only be possible with some government control over cost. I do not believe the value of a person’s life or quality of life should be sacrificed to the bottom line.

France, Germany, and Great Britain all have nationalized health care – and they ALL spend less per capita than we do.

The following table shows where the US ranks in comparison to other countries in terms of healthcare systems and their efficiency (infant mortality, etc.). The US in 37, behind virtually every EU country and Canada.


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I don't know too much about Obamacare. So I will not speak on it. What I do know is that I lived in Germany for 14 years and they have government run healthcare with a private option. While I was there I had two major surgeries and since I played sports was at the physician numerous times with bumps and bruises and sprains. All at no cost to me. Even the medication was paid for. When my wife was pregnant with my daughter we never missed an appointment. We were able to select our own Doctor since all Doctors are included in the network. The private option had only one difference. If you had a hospital stay you got a private room. That's about it. Everything else was paid for and from what I understand many of the things that we would pay outside of the government healthcare (Cosmetic surgery) was covered in their health plan. When I came back home to the US. I needed a surgery to remove fatty tissue from the back of my neck. That was 4 years ago and I am still paying a 17,000 + dollar bill, because my insurance called it a pre-existing condition. So since I know that in at least 3 other countries that whose healthcare system is better than ours I was curious as to how Healthcare here in the US ranks with other countries., and this is what I found out.
If the government provides the same healthcare as all Federal employees ( many of the same government officials who are asking to repeal Obamacare enjoy government healthcare because of the jobs they hold. See what they would do if you asked them to discontinue their government healthcare plan and start paying for it themselves and their families.))have available to them, that is an improvement, but not the best we can do. A better solution is for the government to put us all on the same basic coverage as Medicaid, but Federally run rather than State run. The premiums for those not indigent would be lower and the defaults for emergency care of indigent would be significantly less. It would profit us in the long run by having a healthier populace but, more important to business, a healthier workforce and less overhead to figure in the cost of labor for Big Business.

This would make us far more competitive with foreign labor (with the exception of the third world countries who treat their workers and citizens as expendable resources). Real reform in healthcare will only be possible with some government control over cost. I do not believe the value of a person’s life or quality of life should be sacrificed to the bottom line.

France, Germany, and Great Britain all have nationalized health care – and they ALL spend less per capita than we do.

The following table shows where the US ranks in comparison to other countries in terms of healthcare systems and their efficiency (infant mortality, etc.). The US in 37, behind virtually every EU country and Canada.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...


http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/...


http://www.huffingtonpost.com...


http://lauraschneider.wordpre...