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Replacing Obamacare the Difficulty

The American People are extremely stupid. They still believe The Affordable Care Act is about healthcare.

Who wrote the Affordable Care Act? Was it Obama? Was it a group of citizens? How about bunch of lawmakers? No one knows exactly who wrote the bill. We do know that citizens and their representatives had nothing to do with it. The bill was written by lobbyists who wanted to create a feeding frenzy for their clients. To be specific, organized crime hired the lobbyists and they bought the cooperation of both Republican and Democratic lawmakers.

How is this possible? It takes a huge level of stupidity on the part of the general population. The public still believes Obamacare has something to do with healthcare. It doesn’t. It is a bill requiring the purchase of insurance. Obamacare provides ways for the mob to extract for themselves  a portion of every dollar spent on healthcare. It also makes certain that everyone pays, rich and poor. Senators and congressmen are in a pickle because the mob has purchased their allegiance. These kinds of deals are hard to back away from.

The difficulty in replacing this bill is that all it really amounts to is theft. How do you replace a bill that thieves wrote with another bill where the same amount can be stolen and make it easier on the victims at the same time? I am not sure it can be done.

The only reason to replace Obamacare is to avoid confrontations with organized crime, which pretty much owns government. The country is better off without any law of this kind. It could take Americans years to figure out that that Obamacare has nothing to do with healthcare.

Americans Deserve Obamacare

Most Americans either don’t know the difference between healthcare and health insurance or they are too mentally lazy to make the distinction. A population this ignorant is not going to get a good deal because they are so easy to exploit the temptation smart people have to take advantage of their ignorance is just too great.
Merriam Webster provides this definition for healthcare.
“efforts made to maintain or restore health especially by trained and licensed professionals”

Merriam Webester defines health insurance this way, “insurance against loss through illness of the insured; especially : insurance providing compensation for medical expenses”

A bill like the Affordable Care Act does not expand healthcare. It expands health insurance coverage. It does that by forcing consumers to buy what they might not buy otherwise.

Ask a room full of doctors why they practice medicine and you will get some of the most selfless, noble reasons the brain can some up with. But, what do we know about doctors? They are human beings and like everyone else, nature provides them with one basic incentive, self interest. Whatever reasons are given, just know that doctors will try to make as much money as they can in the shortest period of time.

In a system of free market medicine, goodwill is optimized.  Don’t count on that because as soon as another system, replaces the free market, goodwill starts to disappear rapidly. Healthcare was far from perfect before Obamacare became law. Costs are now skyrocketing and good care, for the most part is unavailable now that the law is in effect.

To the degree that government is involved in healthcare, there will always be less that costs more. Repealing Obamacare is a great move, but replacing it is worse than leaving it the way it is.  Republicans cannot replace Obamacare with anything better. Repealing Obamacare and then walking away is a better choice.

 

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