Affordable Care Act in jeopardy?
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Anonymous
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http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/healthcare/latest-sign-obamacare-exchanges-arent-working-in-many-markets/ar-BBw0HPg
This is alarming, especially now that I am about to buy health insurance on the exchange. How worried should I be about this continuing to be an option, and not costing a fortune? I live in DC, and I don't have any other viable insurance options due to self employment. |
Anonymous
| We need single payer health care in this country. People are repeatedly raped and abused by health insurance companies but yet defend them. I do not get it! |
Anonymous
NP here. +1 |
Anonymous
Y'all need to learn that a single payer system does. For instance, Medicare. Which is oft mentioned. Widely accepted, fair benefits with more first dollar out of hospital than most insurance plans but also no cap on out of pocket expenses. |
Anonymous
+1 also self employed. I thought the repub. party was the party friendly to small businesses. In this case, they sure do make it harder to become self employed. |
Anonymous
I wonder how much time anyone who advocates for single-payer has spent trying to navigate the Medicare system. It's such a nightmare, just as opaque as private insurance when it comes to figuring out what something will actually cost you and comparing plans. And even with your best efforts, you can still end up paying a fortune out of pocket if you have a major medical event. And then what happens to the medical providers? Will they be forced to either work for the government or give up the profession, or will they be allowed to accept private payment outside of the single-payer system? The latter seems a bit problematic from a personal liberty and/or equitable standpoint, but the latter basically ensures that medical care will continue to be rationed based on your ability to pay. |
Anonymous
I don’t understand how you can blame the Republican party for the demise of ACA. It was destined to fail from the beginning, and that is what many of us Republicans have been saying all along. With all its mandates, its pay structure, its taxes, and frankly, lack of choice, it is inevitable. I will remind you that NOT ONE Republican member of Congress voted yes for this legislation. Not one. We need to scrap the whole thing and start new - tort reform, selling across state lines, and more choice with no mandates. And, something needs to be done about the actual costs of treatment.... Obama promised that ACA would do that, but it didn’t. |
Anonymous
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This was ALWAYS the plan with the ACA. It was supposed to be a half-step, botched compromised that was designed to change the conversation.
The GOP mistakenly thought that by making people miserable while on the ACA, they would clamor for the previous system....but that's not how it's working out in reality. All it did was swing the conversation to 60%+ of American wanting universal coverage because the ACA is so miserably bad. |
Anonymous
PP here. I say this as a former Republican. The Repubs have done *NOTHING* since HRC tried to institute universal health care several years ago when she was First Lady. The repubs did *NOTHING* other than tried to block ACA when Obama started talking about universal healthcare. Why didn't they try to come up with their own version? But, no, they just wasted time and effort trying to kill ACA. ACA is obviously not perfect, but it enabled self employed people like me to get healthcare and not be afraid to venture out on our own because of the possibility that one major illness could bankrupt me. |
Anonymous
| I hope the ACA gets shut down. My premiums have been continuously rising to pay for all the subsidized people that are using it. Meanwhile I went for a yearly physical exam and my premiums have more than doubled in the past year. Thankfully this was my last month using a plan on the exchange. |
Anonymous
If they can come up with a viable alternative, fine. Otherwise, you may personally benefit from going back to what we had, but millions of others won't, including me. |
Anonymous
| Like the pp above, I sincerely wish the Republicans had participated in the development of the ACA. I never thought it was the right solution, but something had to change. I think a better solution could have been achieved if the Republicans had been willing to be part of the discussion instead of just trying to shut the whole thing down. The system as it existed (and frankly as it is today) is broken. ACA fixed some things and broke some others. Change is needed. Major change. |
Anonymous
I had private insurance for a long time before ACA. My premiums went up by a lot every year. It got so bad I had to switch to a high deductible plan. At least with ACA, they are now forced to spend x% on healthcare. |
Anonymous
+ a million. Eight years, largely wasted. |
Anonymous
I will take this argument seriously when the Republicans make anything that remotely resembles a serious attempt at their own version of healthcare reform. "Repeal and replace" doesn't work unless you actually have a plan for "replace." |