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Donald Trump Still Wants to Kill Obamacare. Why?
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Obamacare does suck. It's a shitty half measure that leaves thousands to die from lack of health insurance every year and costs us a ton of money that goes straight to middle men that provide no health care.
It's better than what we had before. But we need universal healthcare.
Sure, but everyone needs to be reminded that Trump wants to make it exponentially worse
We need healthcare reform. Trump is not equipped for this job, however.
Also he is not capable of appointing someone to work for him who is equipped for this job.
Agreed.
Medical billing is a pachinko game that provides no health benefits. I've overseen things and had things like medicaid/medicare billing mapped out and it's terrifyingly stupid. It makes our tax laws look rather simple.
We can't even trust cost plus models because of the for profit games like:
Hey we need 1000 bandaids at the hospital. Ok, how about 1000 for $100 bulk? Uh...no we need special ones. Um okay how about 1000 individually packaged bandaids hand prepared atop Mt Olympus by golden haired virgins during intense thunderstorms for 1000 bucks each? Perfect!
Because they have to defend only making cost plus a fixed percentage of profit so better to make 15k than 15 bucks. Jackassery
I'm not against financial rewards for superior products but there's nothing like that in healthcare here. Financial incentives for better outcomes might be good, but instead every incentive begs for bad things.
Trump promised a plan, teased it constantly, never released one. No plan except getting rid of Obamacare.
What about Jared Kushner??!