? who voted no? (funny sentence).
It was disclosed on NPR that surveys showed a large number of people said to get rid of 'Obamacare' but don't take away their affordable healthcare. This is beyond crazy. Yes let's get rid of the term 'Obamacare' and just have 'affordable care'. Obviously words matter!

It kept me alive through chemo, radiation and bone marrow transplant for 2 years.

we need a single-payer health system in this country. We need to demand the lawmakers put this into effect as soon as possible.!!! PUBLIC DEMAND IT FROM THE LAWMAKERS!!!!

As a Canadian I pity you, healthcare is a human right, the fact that this is even a debate is absurd to me and makes my glad I don't have to live in a third world nation like you.

Funny.... we can fund via government our national defense but we can't fund our national healthcare. Very Funny!!!!!

I support Democratic Socialism, not only because I am a humanist, though because I can read the writing on the wall, and there will soon be too few jobs (due to technology) and we will enter a massive poverty crisis without smashing fascism and runaway capitalism

As long as profits are a large part of what drives healthcare, paying for it will always be a problem.

In reality the only way to fix the Health care crisis..is to take the greed and profit out of the equation...stop drug companies from direct to consumer advertising...have a pay cap on Hospital staff..implement preventive...nutritional...and natural non narcotic or chemical meds...stop looking at the medical establishment as corporation...with ceos..and stock holders...Health care should be for everyone..all insurance companies should disappear...universal health-care for all is the humane and moral thing to do...

The solution we need was the original version before the GOP watered it down. Back then, it was called Health Care REFORM. They took the REFORM out of it, thus the continued high costs.

For a US economy being the wealthiest in the world. Yet, to be ranked near the bottom of 1st world countries for health care is the worst for suffering. Just a fraction from your over crowded prisons or war budget would make America healthy and stable again.

Must be brainwashed out of their health.

Brainwashed like raked 43th in the world for freest news and media. Trump lowered it more.

Then raked 23rd as freest country in the world.

That is Nationaism for yeah, call me crazy, some do, because I am an artist.

Give me health and liberty, or death!!!

For me,health care is a right, PERIOD !!!!!

Free healthcare

We need to go further. Get the damned pharmaceutical companies out of it. In the U.S. People don't take care of themselves because of the enormous copay's. We ignore injuries and such because we can afford it. Many people go bankrupt because of these bills. Countries the have universal health care are much more happier than we are.

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I think the Affordable Care Act had a few important improvements over how things were, specifically the ability to not be denied coverage for pre-existing conditions (necessitating a mandate), minimum levels of coverage (as many people didn't realize how useless their insurance was previously), and no lifetime caps. But I don't think it goes far enough. I'd like to see single-payer healthcare that's decoupled from employment, directly taxed, without a profit motive from health insurance companies where they attempt to delay or deny coverage because their top priority — by law — is to maximize profits for their shareholders. I want to see healthcare itself regulated in a practical way, so there are no surprises when getting a bill for care, emergency or otherwise. Healthcare isn't like other services and shouldn't be treated like it's the same as any market-based business. It's more akin to a utility in terms of the vital role it plays.

Well a similar thing has been operating in Australia and the U.K. for ages now and they both have worked very well. So why is that Americans haven't jumped on the bandwagon?

I'm the one who winds up paying the subsidies for people who need help, and apparently, giant insurance companies who also need help. And then I have to pay the increased premiums for my own (non-subsidized) coverage. And I supported the ACA. I just wish it hadn't been a big money grab for pharma and for-profit health care.

No, republicans turned it into a tax.

What we really need is universal healthcare and we need to make Trump a lame duck president and then vote him out

Thank you for calling it the ACA. It is best if we don't let the racists and bigots drag more people into their pool of willful ignorance and hatred by succumbing to the trappings of the connotative meanings of their verbiages.

I need to add a new development on this. As some may know our 'government' is trying to censor certain words from the CDC and HHS. One of those terms is Affordable Healthcare. Only Obamacare is to be allowed.

I think we need a non-profit single payer universal healthcare system, where medicine is aobut preventing and curing disease, rather than out current system of "managing" disease to make greater profits.

Yes and no. It's better than nothing, but not by much. Need to eliminate those third parties whose sole purpose is to take money.

I couldn't decide between Yes and Maybe. I ended up voting Yes because - without sabotage - it had a real chance of working for quite awhile, but I do think that single payer will ultimately be better.

Yes, I support the ACA. It may not be the best, but it's the best that could get through Congress.

your insurance companies coupled with your big pharma and private hospitals are raping you daily. national health ,where there is NO PROFIT , but for the people, is the way to go. In manitoba they even have socialized car insurance where the fees are 1/3 of what we pay