Name:   Classified - Subject:   Healthcare question Date:   10/7/2016 5:45:59 PM

Any plan administered by the government would be costly and filled with fraud, just like Social Security and Medicare are now.

The government is not as good at running healthcare like say BCBS and other companies that know how to assess and control costs.

A great example of how bad things have gotten is as follows:  A friend of mine had a heart attack, was taken to the hospital, had a stint put in to resolve the blockage, only stayed in the hospital overnight.  He was only given a local for insertion of the stint.  His part of the bill was over $25,000.  His employer told him that if this had occurred before the ACA, his part would have been around 10%, I think the estimate was $2650.

The ACA is ridiculous.  He might have been better off not having any insurance in which case Medicaid would have paid all or most of it.