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How is it fair for someone earning $50k in a DC suburb, just getting by, to have to pay $800 a month for a craoot bronze plan when someone living in Alabama earning $45k, and living comfortably, gets the same subsidized coverage for $100 a month?

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We live in a Republic, not a Democracy. [/quote]
I sure hope you're not a Democrat, with your ridiculous non sequitur.

What does the form of our representation have to do with the fact that Obama rammed through a plan that made middle-income people pay $800 a month for a catastrophic plan worth $50 a month so that the lower-income people pay $50 or $100 for the same plan? This entire thing was just a  redistribute scheme from the straight middle class (earning $50kish) to the lower-middle class (earning $35kish) and the working class ($25k) WHEN MIDDLE CLASS PEOPLE EARNING $50K CANNOT AFFORD TO SUBSIDIZE HEALTH INSURANXE FOR THOSE WHO EARN LESS. And that's what OBamacare did.

Next thing you know is that the Dems will have the middle class subsidize the illegals' health insurance. Just watch.

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The person above is either too young or too ignorant to know of all the problems with health insurance before Obamacare. The CEO of the hospital where I worked in the late 1980's and early 1990's told the employees year after year that that the health insurance company was raising their premiums 20 to 50 % year after year and that our insurance premiums would be going up accordingly and we would have to pay more out of pocket and have less coverage. So healthcare insurance prices skyrocketing was happening long before Obamacare. What Obamacare needs is more subsidies and a public option at least. For profit health insurance is never going to be a good deal.

I just read a great article which I will have to find that most folks really do not like their private insurance. Really it is an absurd assertion that folks like their private health insurance in most cases.[/quote]

Exactly! I worked in higher ed and it was the same thing every single year. This was in the 90s! [/quote]
I've also mentioned several times now that I had private insurance pre ACA for years.  Premiums went up every year as did the deductible.  So, I kept downgrading my coverage every year. Again, this is pre ACA.  Back then, insurance companies could also kick you off if you got a pre-existing condition. Not so anymore. So yes, I'm thankful for my ACA coverage.

I'll say it again.. people who think those catastrophic plans are the way to go are living on a hope and a prayer that you won't get sick.  At 50, life has taught me that you never know what life will throw at you.   If we go back to pre ACA days, we will no longer be able to be self employed, and millions of others won't be able to get any coverage.[/quote]

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