Support for 2010 health care law reaches new high

People would not be able to directly blame the Republicans when this happens although many would find a way.

It's idiotic anyway, this is a bogus number. Losing your insurance is what happened with Obamacare, then a financial gun was placed to our collective heads forcing everyone to buy. The same CBO stayed within a decade of passage, there would be 30 million uninsured.

MSgt (Join to see) - System going broke because insurers but pre-ACA system was also broke. Why did providers quit? It wasn't because they couldn't find customers, it was because they weren't meeting the profit margins they wanted.

MAJ James Woods - Apart from the ER whose financing has always been a disaster - particularly when ambulance and ER resources are used for routine medical care for routine illnesses by people who cannot afford and/or obtain health insurance - you have to ask why hospital based medical care bills are so artificially high for the uninsured (they are charged a "nondiscounted price"), why physicians in large health care organizations are squeezed for time, and why physicians in private practice generally cannot afford to stay in business given the artificially low compensation rates by insurers. US Medicine has changed due to the adverse impacts of the insurance system - with or without "free markets" - which will not end under any third party payer system. Warmest Regards, Sandy :)

1LT Sandy Annala - Totally agree. The medical profession has changed drastically due to much of it incorporated. Just look at all the Urgent Care centers popping up around medium to large population centers. "Free market" didn't work in the past to create sufficient competition and Congress has done little to regulate insurers, drug companies, and health providers to ensure competition grows. Yep, I agree with you on this.

MAJ James Woods - I don't believe much of this has to do with merely being incorporated. We have had professional corporations for many decades - but there are far more fundamental economic changes at work here. Warmest Regards, Sandy :)

You should not be ok with that because the money you would be paying would not all be going to low income families but padding for profit insurance companies.

No, I'm not happy with as it stand now. But I'd like to see that program be stand alone, not leaning on insurance companies. If that makes sense.

I am not ok with shellinng out more so lower income families can get their insurance for free while I have to pay higher premiums and copays for lower quality care. As a member of the people in this country that work I believe people who work are worth more to society than people who do not work. Note: people who have retired from work deserve their medical covereage since they used to work. I would also cover all children. I believe that they should not be able to drop people who get sick or deny coverage based on pre existing conditions. I think it is total crap that I have to pay more for my insurance because a healthy adult who made poor life choices cannot afford theirs!

We pay insurance which not only cover costs for oneself and one's family but also contributes to coverage for others (pre-existing, low income, very sick). We pay taxes which also contributes programs like Medicaid that facilitates others to use ERs. I don't want to see my premiums go up just because people want to opt out of insurance and the insurers turn on us to make up their profit margins. I'm not at all cool about that.