To put it simply (there are a few things I disagree on policy-wise), my largest trepidation is quite simple: Obamacare.

I'm currently in college to go to medical school and be a doctor, and the regulations make it harder for me to be the best doctor possible and give the highest quality care.

But that's a conversation for a different thread.

EDIT:

Uhhh, yeah, so this whole thing started in another thread and then people kept asking me and we got way off topic

So, like, I guess if you want to discuss it you can come here...I kinda assumed the convo would fizzle out.

Universal Healthcare is the best system though.

no honey you're thinking with your bank.

1. Obamacare =/= universal healthcare (it would do you well to read about what the Affordable Care Act actually is before commenting.

2. Both of my aunt's parents ended up dying of cancer due to the waiting lines for simple procedures and surgeries needed to save their lives due to this "best system" of universal health care. I don't buy it.

I really don't want to get too off topic here, though.

I've read a lot of insensitive, ignorant and plain stupid comments on this site over the past two years, but this has GOT to take the cake.

You can read my ten-page research paper on the subject if you'd like. Just shoot me a PM if you're interested! Again, though, I'd prefer to keep this conversation off this thread to avoid going off-topic!

And what about the people who go get huge surgeries (like me) then go home to see a $60k bill plus $20k for anesthesia because I have no healthcare?

Or the people that don't get any care at all. I really don't get why America is so scared of Universal Healthcare. It's not going to make them communist like so many of them believe.

No system is perfect. Our current system isn't perfect. The problem with the expansion as proposed in this bill is that there are going to be untold millions of new patients in a system that has no provision for expansion. I want to be a doctor, which means that I have to go through 8 years of school and 3 years of specialized training called residency. The problem with residency is that it is essentially when a hospital pays you 20,000 dollars a year in wages for doing 20 hours work days. The problem is that these residencies are required by law as of now (and that will not and should not change in the future to make sure we have good doctors!), but are founded upon the presumption that a hospital is willing to open up that residency spot. Every year right now, there are hundreds of perfectly competent medical graduates who don't get these residencies because the government has done nothing to encourage hospitals to increase their incentive to provide residencies.

Does Obamacare provide new residencies for more doctors to practice? No.

Does it add 16 million new patients to the medical system? Yes.

What does that mean for you and your surgery? You have to wait months and possibly years for it to even happen. The problem is that Obamacare is not tackling the core aspects of our medical system that need to be considered (provisions that, ironically, were able to take place in Massachusetts) before we can tackle the extremely necessary problem of reforming our healthcare system.

If you want to keep discussing this (trust me, I love it!) write on my wall or something.

My friend is doing premed, and she's also against "Obamacare" for the same reasons.

Obamacare has really discouraged me from going into my dream profession for this and other reasons. I can't stand both at this point so it's hard for me to choose who I'm going to vote for.

I couldn't have said it better myself. Now I just wish the rest of the American people looked beyond the veil that is put over all these health policies.

A great explanation on Obamacare: http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikei...did_it/c530lfx

Gurl, do you even know what Obamacare is? If ya did, you wouldn't be saying it's universal health care.

I don't agree with Obamacare for the exact reasons you stated. I want to be a doctor too, but wouldn't that overstress the already stressed out doctors? The US has a lot amount of doctors in comparison to patients, and no one is doing anything about this. All the Obamacare will do is cause hospitals to be overcrowded with people not getting help because there isn't enough hands to take of them. We needs to fix our medical system first, then think about universal healthcare. All this will do is create a huge mess.

It's really revealing to read statements like this from other people besides myself...like, I thought that I was the only person on this forum aware of this issue. I guess when you want to work in the system that's being affected, though, it makes you pay a lot closer attention to the nitty-gritty of it.

The problem with universal health care is that it's really damn expensive and the US isn't socialist enough to be able to pull it off. But I do think Obamacare is better than the current system. The supply of health care being insufficient for the whole population is a problem on its own and essentially unrelated to Obamacare. Now the whole nation will be burdened by this problem and not just poor people. That's only fair. I hope that during Obama's second term steps will be taken to try and increase the health care supply.

Wouldn't it make a hell of a lot more sense to try and fix the supply of a product before you try to distribute it to people?

Wouldn't this kind of healthcare be able to support more patients who could afford it, thus leading to more doctors being implemented into hospitals? I know it it isn't as easy as ot sounds though, but it sounds good.

If not, halp me understand this.

Would Rep Op