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Uh, there was a huge health crisis and America had one of the worst health coverage statistics in the Western world, with millions of people who couldn't afford any sort of health care. Hence why both democrats and republicans acknowledged the need for a healthcare reform.
I wouldn't be able to see my physician without Obamacare! People like you would just make me go to the ER for everything, not be able to take my medication and get hit with $700-$1,000 bills for every visit! That's how I lived before Obamacare gave me health insurance! Step into reality, man!
No, they had laudnum for a painkiller, which is alcohol and opium, carbolic to kill any infection, bandages, and the body takes care of the rest.
Or maybe millions of Americans didn't think the health insurance was worth the price so the government stepped in and forced them to pay for it.
I'm curious to hear what percentage of Obamacare supporters you feel actually fall into that category. A lot of people that support are people who wouldn't have insurance otherwise.
Yes and if they don't have the money for it they also get taxed for not buying it. The plans at the bottom of the ladder are horrible with high deductible and little to no coverage.
No? Are you actually denying heroine, cocaine, and morphine were widely used for just about everything, even being available OTC?
Any plans are better than no plans. The mid range plans are affordable as well. The private insurance companies are price gouging people to cover their 'pre-existing conditions' mandate. If you have a $5k deductible, that's better than paying $20k for a basic procedure.
Not on the show Rawhide, though there was an episode where the words Opium Den were written on the side of a wagon and Barbara Eden did an exotic belly dance.
So? We also used to use mercury for medicine, bloodlet, and shock people for just about everything. Just because we used something back then doesn't actually mean it was sound, wise, or healthy.
No, i believe carbolic and laudnum were very sound medicine.
Can you show me that most people preferred not having insurance? Once again, the mandate was a Republican idea because a public option or subsidized plan would need money to function and a not mandate version would cripple any attempt to change what was a severe problem in the US. And, just like if you're a walker you still must pay for roads, recognizing Healthcare as a community issue was so paramount that, I repeat, Obamacare was a Republican bill via Romney.
Just because you believe it doesn't make it true. Carbolic is a mild antiseptic--hence its common use in soap--and laudnum is basically diluted opium tincture, and available still via prescription--but we can't use it for everything because opium has a very high risk of dependency and abuse and it can cause much destruction, pain, and suffering for the user and friends, family, coworkers, and anyone else close.
That the government needed to mandate health insurance proves that people chose not to carry insurance at the current pricing. But rather than lower prices the healthcare industry, with the help of the government, forced anyone they could to purchase health insurance to cover the high costs of healthcare. Road funding could be as corrupt and wrong as mandatory healthcare, they try to tell us gas taxes go towards roads but it seems like money never goes to what it was intended for. So what is your answer? To make more of what already doesn't work so well.
Yeah right, or it could help put medical freedom into the hands of Americans and undermine the Heath industry Milch cow. Milch Cow is another term you'd learn from watching Rawhide.
So, you are saying purchase the plan, pay your premiums and hope you don't have a minor problem because you can't afford a $5k medical bill. OK; however the majority of people do not have medical expenses that reach the deductible therefore they are paying out of their own pocket for their medical bills to pay for those that have major medical bills but still can't afford the deductibles.
No, it shows that people chose not to (or had no choice but to not have) insurance at the previous pricing. Many people including some on this thread can attest to being unable to afford insurance prior to ACA but could after ACA, and wanted insurance but couldn't afford it previously.
Yes I'm sure the debt has to do with Healthcare and roads, which we as a country spend comparatively tiny amounts on, rather than things like bloated defense spending.