What makes you think that when everyone has government mandated health insurance, that there will be more doctors, staff and locations for everyone to go and get medical treatment?
Where will the money come for to pay for all the additional doctors, staff and hospitals that it will take to take care of all those who where not gettng medical treatment before?
Lawsuits and federal regulations are the biggest expense of medical treatment. Obama Care makes it easier to sue and increased the government regulations. It will make it harder and more expensive to get treatment.
It comes as a surprise to many people that the regulating agency for medical care in the USA is not a government agency. The American Medical Association regulates medical care. The AMA is run by physicians for the benefit of physicians. What you see is the result of 100 years of letting the union run the industry. There is no doubt that opening a couple dozen more medical schools would improve competition in the medical industry, but the AMA won't allow it. We're meeting some of the demand by importing docs from other countries. You are right, American medical schools need to double the number of MDs they produce, but arguing we should continue to deny medical care to millions of Americans because the union won't let us is nonsens.
Medicines are tightly regulated by the FDA, and there is a good argument for loosening the restrictions on drug testing, but that has nothing to do with Obamacare.
Malpractice suits are a real problem and malpractice insurance is a huge expense, many times because the AMA union refuses to discipline incompetent or negligent physicians. For instance, I know of one obstetrician who finally got run out of the country. Among other things, he let labor go on for seven hours when the fetal monitor clearly showed the fetus was in distress, resulting in a brain damaged baby that will need nursing care for the rest of its life, maybe 50 years. Yeah, that was a really big malpractice suit, but they let him keep right on practicing, so his next trick was to cauterize a woman's ureters during a tubal ligation, which cost her both kidneys. By the time she found a transplant kidney she had lost years of her life. Malpractice insurance paid for that too. The State Medical Examiner revoked his right to practice medicine in Oregon, but the AMA left his license intact, so he moved to Australia where he killed a couple more people. The Aussies threw him in jail.
If you are going to limit malpractice awards, you have to figure out how to care for the people who have had their lives ruined by incompetent doctors. If you take it out of private enterprise your only other option is to socialize malpractice care. Or you could lay some serious sanctions on the AMA and make them do their job. Did you know pediatricians kill more children under the age of 5 every year than all gun fatalities in the USA?
If this is good for the country, why wont Obama run on it as an achievement?
Obama doesn't have to run at all for several months yet. We're eleven months out from the election.
If this is good for employees, why are they trying to get exemptions from having to be under it?
Why did Congress exempt themselves, their staff, their family and everybody else in government from having to be under Obama Care?
Because Congress has deluxe lifetime health care paid for by the taxpayer, and didn't think there was any reason to subject themselves to the free market.
I took a look at your first link, and it was just a mix of whining and distortion. Yes, health insurance companies will have to meet federal guidelines. One of those guidelines that they will have to rake off no more than 25% of premiums, instead of the 40% they were pocketing before Obamacare. It's no wonder they are whining. Out of $2.3 Trillion a year in health care costs, 55% is covered by private insurance, and the 15% that they have to quit skimming amounts to about $190 billion a year. If you were losing a scam like that, you would be whining too, but don't waste a lot of effort on sympathy. They don't need it.
As for putting insurance companies out of business, I think only Vermont has decided to apply for waivers to set up a government run single payer system.
The whole US medical establishment needs to be dismantled and rebuilt from the ground up, but you can see the amount of lobbying that resulted from something as simple as requiring all Americans to have medical insurance.
