Kari posted:Caribny, when will you offer an analysis of the ills of Obamacare and suggest solutions? .
My solution is that they have to focus on containing cost increases. It is for those involved in healthcare delivery to figure out what exactly they ought to do. It is they and not a bunch of lawyers and politicians who should be leading this effort.
With due respect to Barack Obama he is one of those lawyers. So we have a plan that will collapse unless they deal with the high cost of delivering health care in the USA.
The weaknesses of Obamacare is because it was left in the hands of lawyers and politicians who didn't know what the hell they were talking about.
1. The promise that "you will keep your doctors". How when the only way that the insurance companies could have reduced their costs was by reducing their administrative expenses? So they reduced their networks and eliminated many of the highest cost (and often better) providers.
One good aspect of Obamacare is that the premiums that insurance companies charge is tied to the cost of reimbursing healthcare, so they are forced to maintain profits by cost containment, and not by excessive premiums. They however cannot reduce their costs if healthcare providers and suppliers don't.
2. The promise that "you will get cheap and high quality health insurance on the exchanges". How when the cost of healthcare delivery is high and if insurances companies don't charge enough they go bankrupt. Go and research Health Republic and see if they still exist in NYS. No because they tried to provide cheap insurance and collapsed. Next to go will go Oscar.
I hope that Hillary locks up the doctors, the hospitals, the pharmaceutical companies and those who make medical devices in a room, and tells them to fix the problem.