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The Cost of Repealing 'Obamacare'
Posted by Big Eddie | Wednesday, September 12, 2012

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Mitt Romney continues to waffle back and forth on the Affordable Care Act, saying he would repeal it entirely on a radio show Monday, even though on Sunday he said he would keep certain provisions of the health care law.

Watch as Ed talks to Karrie Turner, whose little boy, Travis, was thrown off the family insurance plan after he got sick. Mitt Romney's potential policies have real life implications for the Turner family.

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linda, virginia
9/13/2012 12:52:38 PM
It is reasons like this, that we can't let Romney win.
Harold3225
9/12/2012 7:12:16 PM
The GOP is only pro life for the Christian right votes. They aren't really pro-life. They could care less about any poor or middle class person's life. Their GOD is money and people who have it.

What Obamacare really does for people that the Pubes hate so much is it caps insurance company profits at a reasonable rate. Republicans want every type of business to be in the free market system. They use the argument that business should not be regulated because we are a free society. That doesn't mean we should allow business to take advantage of us. Many types of business are not suited to free market because of the nature of the product or service. Think about water service. It is a natural resource that we all collectively own, but the service is labor that we pay for. People labor to maintain equipment such as pumps and filters that clean and process our water and pump it into our homes. Water is also a matter of life or death. We are all entitled to a share of the water. Isn't that the same case for a national right to affordable Healthcare?

Healthcare isn't a natural resource. It is a man made resource, but we all paid for it. Health reasearch is paid for by all our tax dollars. The collective information that has been discovered since medical research began has come from government grants paid for by our tax dollars. We own the medical information we are being treated with. What we pay our doctors for is their labor just like with water service. Doctors go to school, they study hard, they graduate and work supervised by older doctors, they learn to apply the principles to treat our diseases.

Doesn't that give the patient the right to say you have a right to a reasonable profit for your labor, but not a right to UNLIMITED INDUSTRY PROFITS. We've already paid for the science. When a hospital charges $150,000.00 for an operation, that cost does not represent doctors and nurses time and supplies and overhead. It is a charge based on a monopoly market for health information. They are charging you based on the fact that you are sick and have no reasonable options. You cannot operate on yourself and you cannot reasonably go to another country to get care. That is healthcare operating in the free market system. This is why the Pubes want our healthcare system to stay the way it is. Any individual doctor who is not lying or a selfish bastard will tell you the truth. US Healthcare costs are higher than any other nation because we treat our heathcare industry as a free market business. It is the selfish profit motive of the insurance industry that is driving our costs so high we aren't able to afford to cover everyone.

Most doctors go to medical school because they want to help people. Of course they want to make a good living and they deserve it. They are smarter than the average person and that is the way it should be, but doctors aren't GOD and the really good ones don't expect to bankrupt their sick patients.
Bob Bobonde, Minto ND.
9/12/2012 12:48:26 PM
Republican healthcare plan for the poor = go find a charity or have a bake sale!

if the GOP really was pro-life they would be pro-universal healthcare and anti-war!
sandy
9/12/2012 8:53:56 AM
I thought the Repubs were so "pro-life". I just can't understand how and why it these medical procedures exceeded a million $$$ in 3 months. It seems that everything here in the US is based on profit and greed. I'd like these people to meet with Romney, Ryan and Santorum, who has a special needs child, and ask them how they'll care for their child once they repeal the ACA. It's nothing more than Repub ideology that wants to keep corporate America in control of our lives.
SlawDogg
9/12/2012 7:04:06 AM
This family was blessed by timing. Had Romney been elected, and this law repealed by special interests, this boy would have died. Period.

Romneys repeal and replace logic is total BS. He would repeal if he had the chance, however there is NOTHING to replace it with in the Republican camp.

Romney lacks compassion and understanding of the rest of us. He really doesn't have a clue.


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