回复 'Backcountry' 的评论 : I understand there are people who have nothing to depend on, and I don't always have job either. But I really don't understand why the issue is so complicated, or it is just made complicated; Can't the government just give $2 cash to a person who pays $1 insurance premium and regulate the max given amount based on the income reversely? :)
"就拿欧巴马医疗法来做例子吧,美国原来大约有百分之十的人没有医疗保险,本来每个有医疗保险的人再多付百分之十就可以解决这样的问题". If it were this easy, it would have been implemented 40 years ago. Your statement assumes that the medical cost is uniformly distributed. It is apparently not.
Obamacare's main concepts and the major parts of its implementations were actually first proposed by Republicans in 1989. Bill Clinton tried it, but it was too complicated an issue. A minor version of it, State Children's Health Insurance Program, was enacted, after many compromises.
G. W. Bush tried it as well. For the same reason, he didn't succeed.
Romney finally made it a reality, but only in MA, when he was its governor. It is called Romneycare. When he ran for the president for the first time in 2008, it was actually one of his primary policies he campaigned.
Obamacare is Romneycare for the most parts. If you oppose it just because it was a product of Democratic Party, you really choose the wrong one. If you think a Republican administration should let the market take care of it because 共和党主张小政府, you can read some books more serious in politics.
Etornado 发表评论于
I am truly sicken tried of what people believe that government should manage everything. Simple concept, if that works better then USSR would be still existing! Even stupid communist China realized that does not work.
Backcountry 发表评论于
I am truly sicken tried of this kind of topic. Do you really know what a smaller government means to you and what a ACA means to you? If anybody wants a smaller government, why don't you just get rid of all kinds of social security system, medicare and medicaid, which not many years ago underwent a similar hard fight as well, and now are regarded as a fundamental right for every citizen, and millions and millions of American depend on them.
Sounds like everyone of you, has a well-paid job with a nice medical coverage. Please do enjoy it when you have it, because when you lose your precious job, you will have nothing to depend on.
Don't forget everyone needs others' help at certain point in your life. You are no exception, you are one of them!