After ObamaCare and it's failed promises we are now being promised a New ObamaCare with better bells and whistles. I believe we've heard of better health care, lower cost and expanded coverage. Therefore I say "how did it work out for you." More empty words on another future failure. HHS wants healthcare to work because Socialism always works. Well, just slapping another coat of paint on ObamaCare won't coverup dry rot or stop the stinking fish head who wants to control America by his visions of grandeur to ensure his legacy of HOPE.

Before Obamacare healthcare costs were quite stable, now costs are through the roof with no sign of slowing down. Adding more government to fix a government disaster is like treating cancer with more cancer.

Absolutely not! Obamacare and Medicare before it is reason enough for the govt to stay out of the health insurance business. Obamacare and all its mandates of coverage that people don't need has driven the cost of healthcare through the roof. More importantly, Obama-don't-care is NOT about healthcare, but about the insurance. Please explain to me how someone that requires a subsidy to purchase this abomination can afford the $10k deductible? Medicaid reimbursements are less than what is cost to deliver the service. Instead of spending all this money on insurance that doesn't allow one to afford being sick, they need to focus on making insurance affordable. They way to do that is to allow insurance sales across state lines and allow people to purchase the insurance they NEED. All the govt has achieved is raising the cost of insurance, reducing Medicare reimbursements to the point that one cannot even find doctors that accept Medicare anymore, and burdening people with out of pocket expenses they can't afford. I was a medical practice administrator for 30 years. I left because of Obama-don't-care. There is now more focus on the paperwork and making sure all the boxes are checked on the mandatory electronic medical record than on the patient. The entire ACA is an atrocity. The answer to the uninsured and under insured are out there. Clinics manned with providers that want/need loans to be forgiven are cheaper and more effective than the ACA. A sliding scale fee based on one's ability to pay allows for people to receive care and makes sure they have skin in the game. Anything given free will be abused. Lastly, the ACA was set up to fail to force a one payer system. Ask England how that is working for them. My dear friend died at home from the flu because there was no more money in the budget for the flu. When the transplant budget is depleted they do no more transplants. There is NOTHING in the Constitution that says anything about healthcare. Bottom line WE THE PEOPLE are responsible for ourselves. We need to make the hard choices and those that are ABLE need to get off their butts and work. There are plenty of things that can be done so we have workfare not welfare.

I agree with what Countable member SherryTX said: "Absolutely not! Obamacare and Medicare before it is reason enough for the govt to stay out of the health insurance business. Obamacare and all its mandates of coverage that people don't need has driven the cost of healthcare through the roof. More importantly, Obama-don't-care is NOT about healthcare, but about the insurance. Please explain to me how someone that requires a subsidy to purchase this abomination can afford the $10k deductible? Medicaid reimbursements are less than what is cost to deliver the service. Instead of spending all this money on insurance that doesn't allow one to afford being sick, they need to focus on making insurance affordable. They way to do that is to allow insurance sales across state lines and allow people to purchase the insurance they NEED. All the govt has achieved is raising the cost of insurance, reducing Medicare reimbursements to the point that one cannot even find doctors that accept Medicare anymore, and burdening people with out of pocket expenses they can't afford. I was a medical practice administrator for 30 years. I left because of Obama-don't-care. There is now more focus on the paperwork and making sure all the boxes are checked on the mandatory electronic medical record than on the patient. The entire ACA is an atrocity. The answer to the uninsured and under insured are out there. Clinics manned with providers that want/need loans to be forgiven are cheaper and more effective than the ACA. A sliding scale fee based on one's ability to pay allows for people to receive care and makes sure they have skin in the game. Anything given free will be abused. Lastly, the ACA was set up to fail to force a one payer system. Ask England how that is working for them. My dear friend died at home from the flu because there was no more money in the budget for the flu. When the transplant budget is depleted they do no more transplants. There is NOTHING in the Constitution that says anything about healthcare. Bottom line WE THE PEOPLE are responsible for ourselves. We need to make the hard choices and those that are ABLE need to get off their butts and work. There are plenty of things that can be done so we have workfare not welfare."

Obama care made my private insurance expensive enough, no thank you

Public options undercut private competition. This inevitably leads to very expensive private options which only the rich can afford. Everyone else will be forced to have health insurance through the public option. This will inevitably lead to total control of the health industry by the government. Health care is an important industry and it needs to stay privatized in order to continue to develop and stay affordable.

Inside friends of politicians will never have the same desire to cut costs as business owners with their necks on the line.

The government needs to not try add more bureaucracy to what is already a struggling healthcare system.

Make healthcare a true free market where people can shop around for the best care at a price they can afford. Stop subsidies of all health insurance providers, open the competition to cross state providers, list all cost of all procedures, and make not only healthcare providers, but insurance providers show transparency of cost. Let the people decide what they can afford and allow the costs to come down to a real affordable level.

My employer provided free health insurance for his employees before obamacare changed the rules, now my employer, who cares very deeply for those who work for him can no longer afford to provide insurance, the government can not be trusted with this task, you can keep your doctor, and assorted other lies along with the price increases that came with the obamacare fiasco should be ample evidence that the government doesn't have our interest at heart.

As someone who works in healthcare, believe me when I say health insurers are not raking in the wealth like their detractors would have you believe. It is a very difficult business. The government would absolutely fail at it. The program would be a money pit. It would be the most expensive plan in the country - not to its users, but to all the rest of the taxpayers who are funding it without partaking. What's more, it would bankrupt almost every hospital in the country. How do I know? Medicare. Medicare pays doctors and hospitals and clinics and centers about 70-80% of the actual cost of care in most cases. Providers lose money on just about everything they do for every Medicare patient. The only reason health care provider organizations stay afloat at all is that commercial insurers pay providers a lot better and the private organizations literally subsidize the government. If those commercially-insured patients were replaced by more government-insured patients, hospitals would collapse. They're not raking in the wealth either. Their margins are usually razor thin. This is a terrible idea. Government needs to get out of health care. They have "helped" enough already, and if they "help" any more we may all suffer greatly.