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Barack Obama Publishes Defense of the ACA in the New England Journal of Medicine

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Re: Barack Obama Publishes Defense of the ACA in the New England Journal of Medicine

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Post by spoiledtechie »

It's a wonderful idea. Free healthcare for all. Sadly, it simply isn't sustainable financially. I think in the next 10 years alone it was supposed to cost tax payers 10 trillion and that money can't literally be printed fast enough and the debt our country holds, extremely unsustainable. If they did it cheaper or more cost effective, I would say yes, but financially, you can't.

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Post by grzm »

pcunite wrote: post #3

will likely be true with President-elect Donald Trump Is it still proper to refer to him that way?

Looks like the article was first published prior to the inauguration:

This article was published on January 6, 2017, at NEJM.org.

Admittedly it's a bit confusing, given the online article is dated January 26, and includes "SOURCE INFORMATION: Mr. Obama is the former President of the United States." Likely inconsistency when repurposing content.

Re: Barack Obama Publishes Defense of the ACA in the New England Journal of Medicine

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Post by aplummer »

spoiledtechie wrote: post #5

It's a wonderful idea. Free healthcare for all. Sadly, it simply isn't sustainable financially. I think in the next 10 years alone it was supposed to cost tax payers 10 trillion and that money can't literally be printed fast enough and the debt our country holds, extremely unsustainable. If they did it cheaper or more cost effective, I would say yes, but financially, you can't.

It's sustainable in all the other first world countries. I don't understand what is different about the United States.

Re: Barack Obama Publishes Defense of the ACA in the New England Journal of Medicine

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Post by grzm »

jbigelow76 wrote: post #2

I doubt anyone in Congress or the White House working to repeal the ACA reads the New England Journal of Medicine.

It's a pretty prestigious journal. It's likely that aides to senators and representatives in key positions, as well as it being forwarded from interested constituents will make sure that the article makes the rounds. And it's generally good political practice to keep informed on the moves made by major players. Likely people in the White House know about it as well.

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Post by hsitz »

spoiledtechie wrote: post #5

It's a wonderful idea. Free healthcare for all. Sadly, it simply isn't sustainable financially. I think in the next 10 years alone it was supposed to cost tax payers 10 trillion and that money can't literally be printed fast enough and the debt our country holds, extremely unsustainable. If they did it cheaper or more cost effective, I would say yes, but financially, you can't.

I'm not sure what you're talking about, but it's definitely not the ACA/Obamacare. The ACA has has nothing to do with "free healthcare for all", and is only tangentially related to free healthcare for anybody (by its relations to Medicaid and Medicare).

If you're talking about virtually every major country besides the U.S., though, they do have something close to free healthcare for all, and it does work, and it's actually a lot cheaper for their societies than the system we have in U.S.

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