I'm sure Trump/GOP will blame the shadow government of Barack Hussein Obama for not being able to repeal the ACA

maybe the whole point of the GOP was to make a bill that would never get past, knowing any bill would be just as bad as the ACA if not worse...and then have the excuse to say, we tried...and then move on, leaving us with ACA?

Two things:

I won't say I agree 100% but the ability to profit off of innovation (such as from new drugs that are expensive to develop and obtain approval for) is sort of a bedrock of our western brand of capitalism. Profit that is earned is perhaps not such a bad thing?

Second, not sure what you are referring to with your last sentence, but I think it's overly simplistic to point to one era or one scapegoat as being the cause of runaway healthcare costs. If you are talking about our lack of a single payer system, over the last century various politically influential parties, including the AMA and organized labor and senior citizen groups, have taken sides in opposition to attempts to provide various legislation meant to create universal or single payer health care.

Dude, if you can't find your nuts I am NOT joining the search party!

What we need to do is take the PROFIT margin out of healthcare period.  Keeping people healthy and fixing them when they are sick should be a nonprofit business.  We all have Nixon and his buddies to thank for that mess.

Wait, is our agreeing a sign of the impending apocalypse?

(Feel free to respond with a snarky riposte about blind squirrels finding nuts). 

 aflanigan wrote:
This is the shortcoming in both the Republican plan and Obamacare: they're basically a revamping of insurance regulations and what little they have to do with actual healthcare they mostly got wrong.

We need to address why healthcare costs so damned much in the first place rather than just rearranging the pieces of the machinery we use to pay for it. This will not be a single bill nor anything that can get done in the first hundred days of an incompetent administration. It will require solving problems that aren't directly related to insurance or healthcare but have a huge influence on costs.

There is no magic technological bullet. We have lots of technology in healthcare, more and better all the time. It will be part of the solution no doubt...assuming we ever solve the problem.

Remember that these are the folks who voted MORE THAN SIXTY TIMES to repeal the ACA.

They've had seven years that they've publicly talked about 1) how bad ACA is and 2) they're going to repeal it and 3) replace it.

And, now that they've been handed the steering wheel and every ability to live up to their promises...

 

Safe for the moment.