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That's fantastic for you, but I don't see that the attitude of the doctors or nurses is related to the healthcare system. I've been in the hospital 3 times with atrial fibrilation (and hopefully no more now that I'm on the right medication). The attitude has been widly variable between the 3 hospitals.

The UK is also paying for their healthcare system in universally high taxes, and I've heard some real horror stories from it as well.

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

Americans may be able to keep their individual insurance plans for one more year, under a fix offered by President Obama on Thursday to address a controversial provision of the Affordable Care Act.

The deal is meant to mollify millions of people enraged after their insurers canceled policies that do not meet Obamacare requirements. The uproar has ensnared the White House for weeks, shining a spotlight on Obama's previous promise that people who liked their insurance plans can keep them.

"This fix won't solve every problem for every person" but it will help many, the President said at the White House. "We are going to do everything we can to help Americans who've received these cancellation notices."

But the fix, as reported earlier by CNN's Dana Bash, puts the onus of the renewals on insurers. The administration is not requiring insurers or state insurance commissioners to extend the existing plans, but instead is allowing insurers to offer an additional year of coverage.

Also, insurers must notify policyholders of the difference in benefits between their policies and the Obamacare plans available on the insurance exchanges. And the companies must inform people that additional policies are available on the exchanges and that subsidies may be available to those who qualify

In comic strips the person on the left always speaks first. - George Carlin

Can't decide if this hilarious since the administration just punted to the private sector or because it looks an awful lot like the year-long delay for the individual mandate that shut down the government last month.

In comic strips the person on the left always speaks first. - George Carlin

So then the new message is, "If you like your insurance then its not OUR fault you can't keep it."?

I was not told directly that the website would not work; otherwise, why would I have been telling everyone it's as easy as shopping on Amazon.com or your favorite app store?

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

You paid what your out of pocket would have been at the majority of hospitals in the United States, but claim this is a great victory the United Kingdom? The only thing they did differently than would have occurred in the US: keep you overnight for observation; and that difference is almost entirely the fault of the Affordable Care Act. Any exorbitant costs incurred post-ACA would come from the bifurcation of healthcare facilities (the hospital) and healthcare providers (physician and nursing subcontractors) made mandatory by the ACA, and the very real reality that your hospital's providers are not actually in your insurance network.

Incidentally, my boss's last kidney stone cost him $380 out of pocket at the Emory Research Hospital.

What bizarro world do you live in that the total bill from the hospital for an overnight stay, x-rays and IV were less than $3k+?

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

Well, the mandate will still be in effect. It's just now, when these people whose policies got canceled start complaining about not getting affordable care, the Dems will try to blame lazy insurance companies for not reinstating the policies.

I'm still trying to figure out how the President has the power to make law changes like this without Congress.

and that's okay? Cause it sure wasn't 5-13 years ago

In comic strips the person on the left always speaks first. - George Carlin

and that's okay? Cause it sure wasn't 5-13 years ago

Sure it was. Ashcroft and Gonzales under Bush selectively enforced the obscenity laws all the time to go after "vice" that they didn't like.

19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. 20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

Rynar:

No one's forgotten; the Federal Exchanges are an end-run on the state licensing and regulation schemes for the insurance industry. Of course, behind the scenes, the Obama Administration has tied Federal Medicaid/Medicare funds to ACA compliance; and they have been giving Medicaid expansion funds to those states willing to play ball with the President's schemes while withholding said expansion funds from states attempting to resist the ACA.

This is all Thug-Life (tm) Politics, and at this point, I suspect Justin Bieber could run DHHS better than Sibelius.

19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. 20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

I don't know what you earn. I wasn't attributing that last paragraph to you specifically, but you went on a rant on what "liberals" do so I felt like I could do the same.

And yes, I know conservatives who believe that hourly employment is "not a real job" because overtime acts as a disincentive for your employer to give you more than 40 hours. "Real Americans" have salaried jobs and do as much work as is necessary. They believe that working your *** off is a moral imperative and anyone that does not do so, regardless of how much they actually make per hour or how much they spend, is beneath contempt. If you're not putting in at least sixty hours a week, you're contributing to the downfall of this country, even if you're getting paid $500/hour.

I definitely agree with the in/out of your control part, but remember that what does and does not count as "out of your control" is VERY subjective and you can stretch that pretty far in either direction depending on how liberal or conservative you are.

What bizarro world do you live in that the total bill from the hospital for an overnight stay, x-rays and IV were less than $3k+?

The 501 quid was the total invoice from the hospital, not what my out of pocket was after insurance.