Now, there's a decent argument that the failure of Obamacare could usher in something worse (or better, depending on your point of view - honestly, single payer scares the **** out of me). To be truthful, though, I'm not rooting for Obamacare. I didn't want it and the fact that "you could keep your insurance" had to be such a big part of getting support indicates to me, that a good many of us didn't want it and Obama knew that. Now, I don't know if it can ever fully go away, but presuming it could do you want Obamacare to fail?
Give me a minute to attach the poll.
Honestly? I'm torn.
I'm a big 10th Amendment supporter and feel that anything like the PPACA should have been left to the states like the plan that the Obama Administration keeps comparing it to in Massachusetts. Would I support a similar state plan in my state; NC? No, not now. Before the PPACA I was leaning toward supporting a MA type plan for other states. But now? After seeing how impossible it is to have a one size fits all medical system I no longer support it here.
So I don't support it for the country on a federal level either.
What scares me worse is that once the political pendulum on health care begins swinging again that it may act more like a guillotine and kill all chances of reasonableness as well as the Constitution.
I vehemently appose single payer, and I'm scared as hell that that's where this is headed. I also feel that single payer was and is the end goal of the PPACA and its shortfalls. I feel that many of the shortfalls were intentional to help force the single payer issue to the forefront.
So again, I'm torn.
If it fails, which it looks as though it will, the alternative that appears to be the next step in the evolution of the debate is worse to me than the PPACA could be.
Yet, if it stays in place, it will require many changes (as some have already been enacted by decree by Obama) and those changes have the great possibility of devastating the health care system as a whole.
As a small business owner, I've had to make painful choices due to the PPACA. As a private citizen, the PPACA has cost me a tremendous amount of money; more than I paid for the same health care before the PPACA.
The first thing they need to change is the name; it doesn't provide 'patient protection' (with only one exception / preexisting conditions) and it damn sure doesn't, hasn't and will not provide 'affordable care' since deductibles and co-pays have increased exponentially (what happened to the average $2,500.00 per person savings?).
I'm torn, but I lean toward a reset and a new debate regarding certain parts that do work (preexisting conditions) and parts that were not included, such as buying insurance across state lines, that would increase competition and have a real chance of reducing costs by increasing the insurance pools.