PPACA is not perfect, but one good thing is that it stops the practice of people with no money and no insurance indirectly getting their care paid for by people who do have money/insurance.

Another huge good thing is that it allows people to change jobs w/o worrying about insurance. Before you had people get sick, say with cancer, and then they were afraid to change jobs b/c it might affect their treatment-- even if some better opportunity for them and an employer presented. Someone with a history of heart disease didn't want a full-time job at my shop (back when I had enough business to support a FT engineer) b/c of insurance. That wouldn't be an issue after 1/1/14.

Very good point. That is the name of the game in politics. Pull

Anybody who thinks that a program can be created - a government program - where 30,000,000 more people are going to get insurance for free, and there are going to be no limits or preexisting condition limits and you will be keeping your own doctor and to top it off everybody is going to see their insurance cost DROP $1500-2500 a year - is crazy.

It was never going to happen that way. It's like all these liberals crying for more gun control. The goal is not a better system, it's ALL about them getting more CONTROL!

Those idiot dems who pushed this abortion through congress just gave themselves 1/6th of the US economy. Why? Because their supporters are the owners of hospitals and medical centers. Warren Buffet is one of the top three owners of medical centers in this country. Hospitals, retirement centers, nursing homes, medical device makers, prosthetic devices - they make up a large majority of his holdings. Obama just paid his sugar daddy back for getting him elected.

I agree with much of what you said. It is the people that expect care and intend to pay nothing that bother me. It is not sustainable.

Again, I would love to hear some real stories from the gulch. Or better yet, some alternatives or solutions.