[robomartin]

> The healthcare industry needs a lot more transparency.

OK, yes. What it really needs is to be an open market both for care and insurance. Competition has amazing ways to both improve quality and affordability. This has been proven time and time again across a myriad of fields both within and well outside of medicine. Nothing beats open market competition. When providers and insurance companies truly have to compete for your business things change.

The ACA (Obamacare) is a disaster full of typical government-driven unintended consequences. We are just starting to see the tip of the iceberg. Funny that the very people who passed it will not have to live within this monstrous framework. And now the very unions who helped push it forward had an "oh-shit!" moment. They learned just how fucked it's going to be and want out.

I say, we are all on the same boat or shred the damn thing. If we are going to have socialized medicine the only equitable approach is that everyone, without exceptions, has to use it. All exceptions granted by POTUS need to be rescinded.

[tzs]

> Funny that the very people who passed it will not have to live within this monstrous framework.

It applies to Congress.

[sp332]

Thanks to political one-upmanship, confusing language, and uncertain policy, that wasn't clear for a while. http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2013/04/25/is-congress...