Illustrating the Success of Health Care Reform

Wondering how health care reform works, and why it's so important? In this animated video, Jonathan Gruber, MIT economist and former special advisor to the President on health care, explains the benefits of reform and why the individual mandate is necessary.

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[beerandbanjo]

All you people crying that the ACA is making your ins worse: False. Your insurance is worse because your insurers are greedy. Same thing happened to me BEFORE the crash. Every year they covered a little less, made more exceptions, and raised deductibles. What you're seeing is just them being greedy because they know they are at the end of the rope. There is less and less money to steal because we are broke.

[cAndyPandy95]

oh, silly americans!

we europeans laugh at your silliness.

Go Obama and ACA!

[khiben]

What a bunch of B as in B and S as in S

[doodlstudio]

But the good news is that the few doctors left will still give priority to those willing/able to pay cash. See link to prove that this is already happening.

arkansasmatters*dot*com/fullte­xt?nxd_id=638872

[doodlstudio]

The sad thing is, once it becomes undeniably obvious that this will only make things worse, it will be like the Social Security system and the poorest will be so dependent that it will be very difficult to remove, good doctors will become scarce though retirement and lack of new interest in medical professions, wait lines will become intolerable because you get more of anything you subsidize - in this case patients.

[Quiksilver385]

Well if i got cancer, i wouldn't pay a cent to get poisoned (chemotherapy) by a man with a white coat that looses his license if he actually cured people, anyways. Wake up Sarah, the government does not care about your health at all! Its scary, but you have to be your own doctor.

[Sarah Wind]

I hope you don't get cancer and need expensive treatment. What if you were told, "If you don't have $200,000. for your cancer you can't get treated!" That would be sad.

[hipchickfitness]

Many have been affected by the unavailability of healthcare and the rising cost, the reform in healthcare maybe a good solution

[Freezer1414]

Wow what propaganda...

[Quiksilver385]

Yes. The price of ALL medicine has to come down under a free-market; basic supply and demand. Also if you don't have enough money to buy a house than you cant have one, its that simple. Today nobody buys anything, they borrow it.

Its hard to imagine a world without insurances and government intervention because its been there all our lives. Nobody should be entitled to anything at the expense of somebody else.

[Evan Eaks]

i believe i saw john gruber on a date with your mom last night.  they were making out on a park bench in front of god and everybody! she must run a little hot.