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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	Were these questions really for me?
	Date:	11/22/2013 9:08:45 AM

CAT, didn't answer them because I assumed you were looking for someone that delusionally thinks there is something about Obamacare to like. But OK, here you go with answers to the questions you asked:

1. What was wrong with what we had, and what needed fixing?

The fact is we had the best health care system in the world with a few problems. The big ones were dealing with pre-existing conditions, providing some form of health insurance to the estimated 10-15M people that did not have it and actually wanted it and third party payer systems that increases costs and introduces distortions in the purchasing habits and the need for tort reform so doctors do not have to practice defensive medicine and charge high fees in order to pay for their malpractice insurance.

2. What is better with the new Obamacare(at this moment)?

For the vast majority of Americans (over 95%) nothing is better and many things are already worse, and in same cases much worse. Costs for health insurance have gone up dramatically since its inception and is accelerating as more of the provisions come into force. CBO recently estimated that in 10 years over 30 million will still be uninsured. Millions of people have already lost the insurance they had an liked and either are forced to buy policies with coverage they do not want or they will go without insurance because it will now cost too much. According to AEI, as many as 100 million could lose their current insurance as a result of Obamacare. Doctors and hospitals are refusing to take Obamacare insurance because of the ridiculously low reimbursement rates, the paperwork burden and the rules about doctors and hospitals getting stuck with 2 months of coverage after a patient stops paying their premium and a myriad of other problems. Most of those added via Obamacare so far have either been older people with pre-existing conditions or those signing up for Medicaid. Costs are going to spiral out of control and the government is going to be forced into subsidizing more and more of the cost which will increase deficits and drive up the cost of health care for everyone. There was no tort reform because God knows DemocRATs could never do something to thwart the lining of the pockets of the tort lawyers. I could go on and on and on with the damage this abysmal law has done to the country but what's the point? The left meant well, right?