I find it interesting that you are so against government health care reform and think it will lead to rationing.
Don't you and your wife currently get all your health care through the government because you are a veteran/older?
How are the VA and Medicare good, but government health care bad?
Let me see if I can answer this without totally losing my temper, since it seems to be the usual progressive response to those who have earned something, anything, on their own and now have no choice but to accept it in the form in which it is administered.
Yes, my wife and I are covered by Tricare and Medicare. That does not necessarily mean that I approve of Medicare as it is today because much can be done to improve it or change it.
Now, to the main difference between Veteran's care, which BTW, could be vastly improved and Obamacare. Veteran's, due to illness such as those caused by Agent Orange, wounds caused by bullets and disease caused by serving in places devoid of US health standards are entitled to medical care that was promised to them upon their enlistment to serve their country.
Obamacare will give healthcare to everyone whether they deserve it or not, including the illigals and the undeserving. I am not talking about those who cannot fend for themselves. They deserve such consideration. In my day and age it was called "charity and caring for those unable to do so themselves". Today, it has reached the poing of "gimme, gimme, gimme, because I am entitled to it since I was born". As you can readily ascertain, my viewpoint is much different from yours and SWGB's in that I think healthcare and benefits in general are something you earn, not something handed to you because you exist. I imagine your father feels much the same way from what I read in your posts.
Yes, I think many now served by our healthcare system will not be in the future. It is my firm opinion, and my wife's, who served as an RN and Utilization and Review specialist for medical insurance, that instead of raising the standard of medical care for all, we will reduce it to a level of mediocrity never before seen in medical care in the United States.
