The Problem With the Problems With Obamacare

By Scott Coulter That's not a typo you read. I want to talk about the problem with how we talk about the problems with Obamacare. I know this is a topic not directly tied to diabetes, but health insurance, and our rather precarious health-care system, certainly has a LARGE impact on all of us living with this preexisting condition. And so the debate on Obamacare, or the Affordable Care Act as it's actually called, is something I've tried my best to follow. Here's the issue: It seems like we are almost incapable of addressing the problems in any way that can lead to anything constructive. It seems to me that what we have is two bitterly entrenched "sides," full of people who have minds ALREADY MADE UP long before encountering any of the facts. And so each side finds the facts, the statistics, the stories, that back up THEIR view of the situation, and they go to war against each other. And the biggest casualties of this war? US! You see, when ideology trumps reason, trumps evidence, and prevents either side from taking an honest, unbiased look at the situation on the ground, there can be no real progress toward a solution. What we have is two sides more intent on WINNING AN ARGUMENT than on finding a reasonable solution to what nearly everyone agreed was a broken system. Remember the 2008 elections? There was broad consensus that our health-care system as it stood didn't work for the people. We were tired of health insurance companies denying care to deathly ill patients. We we...
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