What is ObamaCare? High-Cost Privatized Medicine That Provides Huge Profits To Insurance Industry

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57. You do understand the concept that someone somewhere has to foot the bill.

You say as though it were totally irrelevant, that it is okay for the HC insurance people to make huge profits. And you say that people who weren't insured will be. But if people have to pay sky high premiums, along iwth co-pays and deductibles, for a product that was SUPPOSED TO BE REFORMED - then what are we who are critical of this bill missing that you are seeing?

But first of all, there is no standard of care at all, for the average person entering the HC system. I worked in hospitals for many years. And since 1994, the average person in a hospital in Calif. is going to be mis-diagnosed, left with medications that conflict with one another, and that could result in their being crippled or dead, and all the while that person is paying through the nose, with huge co-pays and deductibles.

The ACA should have had health standards included as provisions of offering up the mandate to insurers. Insistence on nurses to patient ratios. Insistence on drugs, supplies, and other necessities being appropriate.

An example: So the insurer agrees that a person can have a quad by pass. Only then the insurer refuses to pay for the antibiotics to prevent an infection. How does the patient get a benefit? Do you understand what it is like for an individual and a family to go through the ordeal of bypass surgery, only to die afterwards because they aren't given the six thousand dollars of meds needed to survive?)

Do you know what it is like to work in a brand new, "modernized" hospital ward, that cost people in the community millions,only to have to call your nurse friend who is home for the day to come over with bandaids and other supplies because the hospital only has bandaids that are over six years old and no longer sterile? And this in one of the wealthiest counties in the nation?