health law and rising costs

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Danzig

obamacare is a mess, plain and simple. he said over and over that the economy was job one, and then focuses on this piece of garbage legislation. it sucks, and so does the economy. i really hope that it gets tossed by the supreme court. failing that, i hope it gets shot down in congress. it's another clue regarding how awful things are right now in d.c.
not sure which piece of crap is worse, obamacare or obamadetention.

What, specifically, do you not like about it? I'm not in love with it, but it's a vast improvement over the current situation, which is bankrupting people (in 2007, 62 percent of bankruptcies were linked to medical expenses, and 80 percent of people filing for bankruptcies had health insurance. Of those filing for bankruptcy who had health insurance, the average medical expenses were $18,000. That's what insurance wouldn't pay for. For those without insurance, $27,000).

The WHO rated France #1 in health care, with cost per person, per year of $3655 (11% of GDP). Japan was #10, $2696 pp, 8.4% GDP. Britain, #18, $2992 pp, 8.4% GDP. The USA was rated 37, with an average cost per person of $7,285 (15% of GDP). Stats are from 2007.

Clearly we're not getting our money's worth. We have to change the system. What we got now is costing us a lot of money, and not giving us the best care.