Obamacare failed for many reasons. It lacked choice and flexibility. Welcome to Medicare/Tricare Life...dictatorshipcare, where every facet is government controlled. With no right of appeal.

Obamacare was merely the "I'll be gone, you'll be gone" first step on the road to single payer and a lot of other socialistic projects. It was designed to fail and lead to a crisis that wouldn't be allowed to go waste. Benvenido a Venezuela!

Since you have no idea what "TrumpCare" is, since it is still being crafted, you are nothing more than a drone spouting dishonest talking points. If you are interested in solutions, rather than the political agendas of your handlers, perhaps you could explain what, in its current form, you have a concern with?

Simple: My concern is that government is involved. As such, regardless of what else may be done, the system is destined to be an abject failure just the same as are all of the other systems in which government has assigned itself a role. Can you spell F. U. B. A. R.?

There are only two choices available by law now. The ACA or vote 8 Democratic Senators out of office. You cannot do what should be done - a total repeal of Obamacare - without getting 60 votes in the Senate. It's that simple.

Baloney. There's free market options out there right now, has been since before ocare. I've had my same doctor for over 10 years. And a program through a Christian organization (http://www.chministries.org/) for major stuff. Neither accepts insurance. Neither are ocare. Both are exempt for the ocare fine. Both combined cost a grand total of $345 per mo with a $500 deductible and $1 million dollars worth of coverage. Leftards don't know about this because most are atheists.

My doctor uses the Direct Medical Practice: a unique and growing model of healthcare where
the consumer pays the physician a direct monthly fee. This billing
process reduces paperwork as well as the labor and waste involved in
billing and rebilling insurance carriers. We are a full-service family
care, primary care and geriatric care clinic. We strive to get to know
our patients well and provide personal services such as house calls,
physician phone and email visits.

I now return you to your regularly scheduled uninformed scab picking...

I like that! I've heard others speak well of Christian ministries too.
Direct Medical Practice sounds great, too.

It is great, it's how doctor patient/care was 50 years ago. If I get blood work done *my* doctor calls me and explains in layman's term what the results mean, what the options are, and what she thinks we should do. I decide. No insurance or governmental bureaucrat in the middle, just me and my doc... as it should be.

By the way, Obamacare was a Republican program before Obama made it his own.

Republicans are still for it.

The fake republicans oppose it.

So you don't know how this works either. The bill that passed in the House is step 1 of at least 5 and then is has to be be signed by President Trump. Step 2 is the Senate gets to play with it and who knows WTF it'll look like after that. Step 3 is a joint House/Senate reconciliation committee where it goes back for more surgery. Steps 4&5 are full floor votes in the House and Senate with amendments. If passed in both it goes to President Trump. The chances that it'll look anything like it does now are about zero.

Anyone arguing about this bill now are akin to being armchair quarterbacks for the trench systems dug during the battle of Verdun in WW I. Too deep. Not deep enough. Blah, blah, blah.

Are you really so stupid that you don't realize that before a bill becomes law, it must be voted on in both the House and Senate (and there is a "reconciliation process" that must occur between the two) and then be signed into law by the President? Or are you just another lying, pajama-boy liberal douchecanoe who wants to run around being a c**k-holster for your pederast hero Harry Reid (thanks to S. Colbert for making it permissable to use the term "c**k-holster)?

and is still a bill, it is not law. Stop saying the sky is falling because a bill passed one chamber of congress. You'd have us all believe that it is currently the law of the land and therefore in the fall when premiums go up again, you'll blame it on something that still isn't law.

The current "Law of the Land" is so great that the complainers want to keep it. sheesh.

Its just a first step, it still has to go through the Senate.....

Well thanks for your insight into this complex legislation. It would have helped if you had said something intelligent.

Jimmy, are you still drunk from the weekend? Get some fluids and move around. You will start feeling better.

James, unfortunately we did not get where we are overnight, and we will not reverse what has been done overnight, either.

A bit less whining would be in order.

Well said.

A typically idiotic statement from a typical idiot leftist.

People need to remember that health insurance isn't the cure all for what ails the American system. In many ways it is the problem. It often isn't real insurance. People who have policies treat them like all you can eat buffets. As long as it is covered, they don't care what it costs or if unnecessary procedures and tests are done by doctors. Doctors love this. When you go into a doctors office and hand them an insurance card, they enter it into a computer and see what is covered. Do you really think that doesn't affect what they do?? If they can get away with an unnecessary and expensive test, many will do it to pad their bill.

Health insurance is, in itself is socialized medicine. It creates a huge pool of money that some will take advantage of and others will get no bang for their buck.

I know one person who had a stomach "sleeve" operation in order to lose weight. They were not obese and could have gotten into better shape by changing their diet and exercising. Their insurance covered it. I am sure they never would have done it had they had to pay for it. Now the spouse is scheduled to have it done also. It's insane.

And, if your doctor accepts Medicare, you are limited to only what Medicare covers. If there is a newer, better, safer procedure/drug/operation available but Medicare hasn't approved it...that doctor CANNOT do it or prescribe it. You can't even pay for it out-of-pocket, unless you are willing to find a doc who does not accept Medicare. Government (Medicare) decides what's best for your health...not your physician. Prior to Medicare, most health insurance companies let doctors make their own decisions regarding your medical needs; afterward, they adopted the same top-down-one-size-fits-all program with "group contracts" rather than "individual policies." The result has been less actual health care, fewer choices, and a much more expensive premium with higher deductibles.

Medicare lit a fire; Obamacare set an explosive.

My 84 yr. old father-in-law had the best insurance you can get -- was told by doctors that he'd just "fly through" open heart surgery, fixing 5 clogged arteries... with "no problem."
Well...it didn't turn out so well.....not at all.
Those doctors were greedy, they took advantage of the fact he had great insurance

Greed is the basis of capitalism and the free market.

Nothing is more greedy than the pigs in government.

Pigs are pachyderms
Elephants are pachyderms
This is the age of the pachyderms!

Uh oh....this can't be...we agree on something?

I know my pachyderms!

Elephants, hippos, pigs and rhinos are all pachyderms.

so an elephant tastes like bacon? Cool!!!

Look to Venezuela, idiot.

Venezuela has rich resources, should be very prosperous, but no... look at them today. What a disaster.
Chavez ended up a Billionaire... and the people had nothing..

Chavez ended up dead...

Greatest lie ever devised by the totalitarians. Convince people that liberty and self-determination are bad things.

Greed exists everywhere.

In capitalism, you can only satisfy your greed by doing what other people want.

In government, you can satisfy it by sheer use of force.

My point is that Healthcare is BIG BUSINESS, first & foremost, for doctors, etc.
If you're not an informed consumer of healthcare, you'll get taken to the cleaners.
If you're not directly involved in that decision process, the costs will skyrocket if its managed by 1 entity, a government agency, which has no motivation to reduce costs.
Our taxes will increase-- and there will be Nothing we can do about it.

True Christians are generous.

Fake Christians are greedy.

ALL INSURANCE works that way. Car insurance, homeowners insurance, life insurance.

And in fact, so do public safety services. I pay for policing and fire just like everyone else, but I have almost never used them.

Welcome to life.

Does your car insurance cover oil changes, tire replacements, and routine repairs?? No!! It is for accidents not maintenance!! Get a clue!!

How so? Or perhaps you're only able to spew dishonest talking points.

"Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act, which is nothing more than a failed wealth redistribution experiment." EXACTLY, that is what Obamacare is. It is a far cry from HEALTH INSURANCE...

And just another in a long line of failed social experiments. Brought to you by a fanatical fascist regime. The left are like those that are mentally deranged to belive that if they can't have what they want then they will destroy you.

The VA is a failed republican experiment.

Sorry, just another failed socialist experiment. One set up by the left. Just like SS, Medicare, etc. SO as usual you folks want to push the blame off onto the republicans. Justy like you try to do so for the Civil War, KKK, Jim Crow, etc ad nauseam.