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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brandi" data-source="post: 2146099" data-attributes="member: 24446">This system certainly isn't looking that good but, like him or hate him, at least he tried.  The system is broken, and has been for a long time.  The Republican party do anything to fix it in their previous how many years of control? Well they did push a law through that ultimately gave more power to the insurance companies to deny claims but that was a step backwards. In the debates previous to Obama's first election the topic of healthcare was brought up every time.  At one point Mr. McCain said that, yes, the healthcare system was in serious need of overhaul but he believed the Republican party could very easily fix it if elected. To which the Democratic response was basically 'you had eight years to fix it, yet you did nothing. Why should we believe you now?'.  He had no real comeback and that was that.Whoever is president next, and I have no doubt they will be a republican, HAS to do something to fix the system.  It's not just the poor who need a better system it's everyone. Look at the statistics and the actual cases...it's not just low and medium income families being crushed by medical costs it's upper class families too. Families who make over $500k a year go into foreclosure and end up defaulting on everything because a family member was diagnosed with cancer or other serious illness or injury that requires lengthy hospital stays and expensive medications.  There's a saying that basically reads as "every American, with the exception of the 'super wealthy' (those with assets of $100 million or more) are exactly ONE major medical issue away from total financial devastation".Conservative republicans that make $100k per year or more like to exclude themselves from the category of "low income" families that are often mentioned by politicians but they ARE included by the political definition so although you consider yourself above the rest you're still part of the lower class your favorite politician talks about.I'm not arguing for Obama's program, I don't see any changes, I don't see anything different to be honest but...that doesn't mean our system doesn't need an overhaul. A few years ago while trying to find insurance for the kids because we had no company insurance at the time we called every company out there. They all quoted premiums of over $600 per month and that was for ONE child because every single company refused to cover the 14 year old girl because of a pre-existing condition.  Whoever becomes president next, regardless of affiliation, has to fix the problem instead of sticking their head in the sand and repeating "nope, there is no problem.". I'll be shocked if the democrats win the next election so it will be the GOP's chance to actually do what they say they can do instead of their last dismal performance.</blockquote>

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