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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Under this bill, pregnancy will cost you an extra 17K. Metastatic cancer 172K. Autism 5K. Asthma 4K. This isn't a healthcare bill.[/quote]

Neither is my health coverage real at the ridiculous sky higj premiums I am paying under Aca. Affordable my ass. They better do something or I'll kick them out of office.   There are just as many of us who have been hurt. Y this monstrosity as you who claim that it is your saving grace.  It needs a full repeal [/quote]

A full repeal means no coverage for prexisting conditions or lifetime maxes.  That's gonna cost you.  Premiums have gone up every years for the last 30 years.  This isn't the ACA it's the reality of a for-profit healthcare model.  You're directing your outrage at the ACA.  In fact, millions more have coverage under ACA AND the breadth and depth of coverage is better.  [/quote]
The "security" that comes from knowing pre-x conditions are covered is false. It's a big rallying cry of the D's, but did you realize that the ACA plans are so limited in networks that 15% of them are missing key specialists? It's a big LIE that insurers have to cover pre-x conditions, since they aren't required to have a specialist for every condition. So you could buy into an ACA plan for $10k a year, thinking you're now protected in case you develop....whatever.....a serious thyroid condition.....only to find that, when you do, your plan has no endriconoligists. [/quote]
^^^ and this isn't a hypothetical. In fall 2016, I developed a medical condition that had a 50/50 chance of requiring surgery (if lesser treatments didn't work.) Lo and behold, I found that my ACA plan did not have the specialist who did the surgery in-network, so I would have had to pay $20,000 out-of-network for the surgery and follow-up care, and that was in addition to the $10k premiums and the in-network deductible of $6,000. If I needed the surgery, my health costs that year would have been $35,000 before my ACA plan kicked in a penny. (As it was, I had to pay for the "lesser treatments" on my own for $2300, which was manageable - and successful. But I was lucky.)

And remember, people like me - who could have to pay as much as $35,000 in a year - are considered under Obamacare to be "insured." Should someone who has ACA "insurance" have to cancel a vacation and postpone a car purchase because of expensive and unforeseen medical expenses?[/quote]

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