Trump Wants Drug Makers, Insurers, & Hospitals To Disclose Prices!

[Dill]

(02-12-2019, 05:16 PM)Benton Wrote: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/08/01/set-health-record-straight-republicans-helped-craft-obamacare-ross-baker-column/523952001/

It started with a plan drafted by the GOP in the 90s. Clinton (who got a fair amount of support from Big Pharma) wasn't supportive and it got pushed aside in the whole "Contract with America" fervor. Obama and Democrats dusted it off thinking it would get Republican support. It didn't. At least, not officially. Republicans were a part of it, they just didn't want that being on the surface. You can't take a direction of "socialism is bad and all Democrats are socialists" and then support socialized medicine. They'd have lost all credibility.

It's much like the wall. Many Democrats are in favor of it, but they drew a line of 'no wall, no way.' So they can't support it on the surface. Hence the 'let's debate in private.'

Yes, Obamacare was Romneycare updated and extended to the nation.  Democrats crossing the aisle to work with Republican ideas.

But give Obama a WIN??? No way. That is how a market competition and free choice plan became "socialism."

You are old enough to remember Bill and Hillary's first go at health care back in 93.  I remember that because I had just moved from Germany, where we'd had real health insurance for 10 years, and now had to pay double the cost of insurance for minimal coverage.  My daughter, a leukemia survivor, could not be covered at all. I was baffled at how easy it was to stifle policy innovation with reference to "big government" and "socialism."