Fellow health care workers: Do you see 'the affordable health care act'?

David Kuper: First let me say that the law is no where near perfect. But to answer your question absolutely not. The current system is absolutely unfair. Some people get to live because they have more money or work for a large corporation and some people die needlessly because they don't. The ACA has already stopped insurance companies from dropping people when they come down with an expensive illness, it has added free preventative care (this in itself will bring costs way down-it is cheaper to treat diabetes with regular testing and education than to wait until gangrene sets in their feet and they need to be amputated). 45 million people will be able to get early (read:inexpensive) care in a doctor's office not the ED. EDs were never meant to be quick care clinics and they are the most expensive place to receive care.A problem with the system is that we currently do not have enough General Practitioners to accommodate the influx of 45 million people into the system. Als! o some specialties have either too few practitioners or they are only in largely urban areas. Technology will help them reach further. PAs and NPs are being trained and med schools are recruiting. I am astounded that we have allowed the problem of lack of access to affordable care to become so massive. 45 million people are in danger of dying from a minor infection so the the rich do not have to wait to get their hangnails treated!Many people are upset about the mandate, everyone has to get insurance. The logic behind this is sound. When you look at young people as a group they use very few health services. They dilute the pool of older sicker people making the whole mass cheaper to treat, thus bringing down costs for everyone. That is not the only reason that they need insurance. When young people do end up in care it is very often for cancer or major trauma-very expensive to treat. Do we turn them away because they chose not to become insured? Or do the rest of us eat the! cost 'cause "this is 'murica and the govt can't make me do ei! ther what is best for me or my country."There have been a lot of scare tactic propaganda about this law and the country is woefully un/misinformed about the details. Many people are all worked up over something that has nothing to do with them at all. If you have insurance you can keep it. If you have Medicaid or Medicare you can keep it. And if you don't have insurance because you have been denied d/t your need for insurance (preexisting condition) or simply can not pay over half your income and also feed your kids, this is a chance to get insurance at an affordable rate....Show more