OldLady
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I have long said that healthcare costs are the actual problem, that keeping people healthy and alive is a money making industry is why. Capitalism has never been big on moral or ethical restraints. If we want good, affordable healthcare for all, we have to acquiesce to a socialist government run system that is not out to get rich on my illness. There is a cost--the innovations and R&R that are so front and center in American healthcare industry will be stifled somewhat. To me, it is a fair trade in order to have cradle to grave healthcare for all, rich or poor.Nothing will be done to repair our healthcare system as long as the public does what it does now; nothing but vote and whine/post.I do seem to recall the promise of a "better" plan that would be cheaper and insure everyone. Do you remember that part of it, too? Repubs had better get cracking on that part, because once Obamacare implodes, the people won't like it if there is nothing to take its place. So far, everything the Repubs have offered insures less people (practically if not theoretically due to the major anticipated hikes in premiums for certain groups that they can't afford to pay) and costs more.They voted for Trump based on the representation that obamacare would be dismantled.