Health Care

What a mess and how sad it is that the current direction is to just further bastardize a bad system instead of making the major changes that are necessary. This is the best case of how ineffective Obama and democrats are even when they have the power to make it happen.

Having employer's buying health insurance for their workers is a ridicules system that adds no value. Not only does it waste money in administration, it makes our products more expensive on the global market. When you tax corporation's with costs that American citizens should be paying directly you essentially are passing a portion of those costs onto the world via higher product costs and we therefore become less competitive.

And isn’t it amazing that we think insurance companies are a good idea. They consume a huge portion of our health cost dollar and they deliver zero health care. A single payer (Medicare for All) solution would absolutely be the best solution, phased in over time, but we are incapable of fixing a totally broken system due to the lobbying from insurance companies to protect their turf and the policy of Republicans to block anything Obama does regardless of is merit. And the fact that Democrats also suckle on the insurance contribution teat makes change impossible.