For most basic medical and for most people there is huge benefit from getting rid of the corporate insurance companies involvement. What we have today, and what the ACA is mandating is NOT insurance. There will be problems in the future, both real and contrived.
I personally think we would have been better off with legislation like the ACA that mandated only Major Medical, and left the basic medical decisions to the people and their doctors. This would solve the vast majority of the cost problems associated with health care in this country. For those that have difficulty affording their basic health care there are better solutions, as is shown by the original article where the doctor can work with patience who need help on costs.
I've said all along Health Insurance is not Health Care, and the for profit Health Insurance is the root of almost all the problems with Health Care in this country. It wish we could have had real Health Care reform and more support for doctors who do what Ciampi did instead of just more of the flawed and damaging culture of corporate insurance that has created all the problems.
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