Every American citizen is now required to help make insurance corporations richer. Enjoy!

[Swede Atlanta]

134. Look, I would have preferred a single-payer system because

"profit" has no place in helping individuals remain healthy and treating them when they become sick.

I am not opposed to hospitals, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, etc. competing as for-profit companies. That fosters competition that SHOULD place downward pressure on cost (but rarely does) but does promote innovation and service differentiation.

But why should we have insurance companies in the middle? At least with ACA they must provide a certain minimum percentage of their revenues toward providing health care.

The ACA is the first significant advancement we have had for the general population's health care in my lifetime. Medicare, including the Rx program benefit our senior population. But this gives some hope for the rest of us.

I would still prefer to see us move toward a single-payer system that does not include broad public ownership of hospitals, clinics, etc. I don't want my doctor to have to be a public employee. But I do want single-payer.