Everyone knows by now, how much the US healthcare system sucks and tries to funnel money from people’s pockets at every chance.
How do you think this will play out in the upcoming years? Is there anything the common person can do to end this ridiculous system? Do we even have the power to change anything by asking for it in numbers?
Let’s take politics out of the discussion since it is clear that even after years neither party did anything remarkable about fixing the broken healthcare system. I believe the people need to take these matters in their hands, otherwise nothing will change. So what do you as a person living in the US think that we can do to fix/improve the situtation?
As a regular person living in the US, I think you’d be delusional to think that you can do anything about it.
We HAVE to bring politics into it, because IT IS politics.
How exactly would people take these matters into their own hands?
That is the question I’m asking. Sure we can blame person X, but nobody who can be put in the place of X cares about the problem. So what can we do to at least get this boat going? I want to brainstorm so that we can actually get shit done instead of waiting for the “leaders” to do it for us.
Well, Trump won and Republicans took every branch… So we’re going to see deep cuts to healthcare across the board. The government decides our healthcare. I don’t know what you’re talking about with brainstorming.
You can start an insurance company.
Since the ACA was passed, Democrats have not held all three branches of the gov’t. (In fact, Mitch McConnell refused to take up Obama’s nomination of a SCOTUS justice because he thought that eight months was too close to the election. Or, that was his claim.) They haven’t had any opportunities to make significant reforms to the ACA–or pass something better–because they haven’t had the power to do so. Republicans came close to overturning it, but blew their chances in 2018. So, to be more accurate, the party that wants to fix healthcare has not had the political ability to do so.
Short of a political change, there is no way to change the system.