Obama Care

Nobody wants to say it directly so I will. The problem with the health care law is that its founding principle is to cover people it is not profitable to cover. The insurance companies are for profit companies and forcing them to cover a segment of the population that it is not profitable to cover is an incongruent proposition.   Covering people with pre-existing conditions and having no caps are not good business for insurance companies. I am not saying that this is not a noble undertaking, I’m just saying it complicates matters.

Senator Cochran came closest to saying what I just said. I think a more realistic law would have focused on preventive care and the young or the law should have gone whole hog and the government should have taken over health care. I know that the federal government will not take over health care and I understand that health care is needed by many who can’t afford it. Let’s hope that the ACA survives my pessimism and in the future universal health care will become the norm in America.