>>>>>Today I hear that last-man-standing Anthem is pulling out of the ACA market in some counties in Nevada, leaving those residents out in the cold with no Obamacare insurance options.
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>>>>>Who is to blame for this?
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>>>>That's an easy one. Barack Obama and the Democrats who voted for this horrible law.
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>>>Have to agree.
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>>>Somewhere back in the fog of history someone decided that health care = health insurance.
>>>That's insane.
>>>Insurers - private or public- add no value to the health care system and take billions out of it.
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>>>There are lots of people in this country would can't afford to pay for a doctor's visit.
>>>We should figure out a way to help those people, for sure.
>>>However, requiring someone making $100K/year to have health insurance is whacky.
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>>Exactly right!
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>>We are too rich a country to let people just die on the street for lack of care.
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>>Actually before Obamacare, nobody was dying on the street.
>>The indigent could always be treated at the ER and they did not pay for it.
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>>While that did provide last-ditch treatment - it provided it in the most expensive way possible.
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>>We can and should have a more fiscally sane way to provide care for the indigent.
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>Agreed.
>But someone has to figure out a way to stop these spiraling costs.
>Forcing people to get insurance was 180 degrees wrong in that regard.
>The first line of defense used to be the MD, but they sold out to big pharma a long time ago.
>The consumer has to step up and say "Enough!"
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..and elect representatives to fix it. Spiraling costs are a problem...but they've actually slowed down since AHA - still going up -- but going up slower. But how do we fix spiraling costs when healthcare in the country is a profit driven industry? Changing that will probably never happen as it makes up 1/6 of our economy - there are too many making too much money off it to ever do a revamp at this point - but there are directions you can lean.