Thankyou to NCR and to Jamie Manson for presenting this article about the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) to readers.  As a family physician, I am sad that healthcare in this country has become a for-profit business on the stock exchange, which means that any profit leaves patient care and goes to CEOs and stockholders, who have no investment in the health of patients, and yet are allowed to abuse the system and patient care in order to make profits for themselves.  Patient care does not belong on the stock exchange in my view. In not-for-profit healthcare systems, any profit goes back into patient care where it belongs.  I am grateful that President Obama cares about everyone and has designed a healthcare system that has the potential to care for everyone, since basic healthcare for all citizens needs to be a right like it is in so many other countries around the world.
Sincerely,   Dr Rosemary Eileen McHugh, MD, MBA, MSpir