Healthcare Hackathon

As this semester I took the course of Professor Gruber, I finally understood how dangerous it is to talk about revolutionize the American Healthcare.

Soon after WWII, the American government covered the veterans healthcare. And then in times of Regan, the government gradually added up MediCAID for those below low incomes and MEDICARE for single moms. The others were covered half by government, half by private insurance.

This policiy for caring about the low incomers and minority(e.g., single mom), economically, didn’t make people striving to pretend to be single mom to get the healthcare. So it worked.

But still, at 2010, there were 12% of the Americans not covered by health insurance. They were either physically very ill, and were discriminated against by the insurance company, or they couldn’t even pay the health insurance fee.

So aside from these 12%, most of the people were content about the US health care. That’s why Obamacare faced loads of against-waves when he enacted it. It simply says, insurance companies have to charge everyone the same amount, no discrimination. That led to 100% coverage in the US.

But then Trump deactivated this Obamacare, because it is an administrative order, not law. So he can easily deactivate it.