Affordable Care
There were many issues with health insurance prior to Obamacare.  Obamacare did not fix very many of these things, and broke a great deal of other things.<p>Sure, it&#x27;s nice that pre-existing conditions are covered better and 26 and under people can get insurance with their parents, but those kinds of benefits could have been covered by a one or two page bill.  What&#x27;s in the rest of it?  Special deals for corporations such as AARP.<p>The law does nothing about making malpractice insurance more affordable, or making the malpractice lawsuit environment more rational.  Why is that?<p>Why is my employer still involved in my health insurance?  Why not move the tax benefits from my employer (it&#x27;s a company, and cannot get sick) to me?  My employer doesn&#x27;t need the insurance.  I do.<p>Why can&#x27;t I buy insurance across state lines like other insurances?<p>Why are there separate &#x27;risk pools&#x27;?  The US is a single market - there should only be one risk pool.  This would put maximal pressure on the insurance companies in terms of cost as they would have to compete for my business instead of negotiating cozy deals with companies (and companies don&#x27;t get sick).<p>Why does the gov&#x27;t get to tell me what&#x27;s in my plan?  If I&#x27;m a single male, why do I need to buy a plan that covers ObGyn?  Why can&#x27;t I buy a high deductable plan anymore?<p>Why does Obamacare think its wrong for doctors to own medical facilities?<p>If controlling cost is so important, why is it practically impossible to find out the cost of anything ahead of time?  This makes making decisions based on cost impossible.  Why is the price one person pays radically different than what another person pays?  Why does cost have no relationship to quality?  I can get an MRI with a brand new machine or with a 15 year old machine that produces crap images, and the crap will cost more.  Why not require publication of prices?<p>Why is it that my dad, a wounded combat veteran, cannot get decent health care at the VA in a major metropolitan area?  The VA is completely controlled by the gov&#x27;t.  It is the gov&#x27;t.  And yet, if he goes to a private hospital to get decent care, he gets penalized.