According to our doctor, there is a new law related to Obamacare - they must drug-test you

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76. the point is that it is open to interpretation

typical corporate approach that allows multiple interpretations which can be pulled out of a hat as convenient.

If you read further downthread, it looks like as currently written ACA specifically allows insurance companies to require drug tests to determine rates. I doubt that was an accident and I doubt it will be removed. I understand it; certain activities do increase risk and drug/alcohol use are one of them.

Personally, I don't care. I hate ACA and there is nothing anybody can say to me that will change that. The insurance companies left me to die decades ago, so after paying into the so-called best HMO around, I ended up saving my life out of pocket anyway.

Insurance companies don't contribute one goddam anything to health care and I resent being forced to pay them money in exchange for nothing. They left me to die before; they will do it again. They employ legions of people who spend their lives poring through the fine print looking for excuses to not pay costs. As a single, past middle-aged woman, I am totally expendible and worthless in American society. That has been made abundantly clear to me since I turned 50. Nothing in this legislation changes that. It just will make me poorer and with less access to health care than before, since now I'll be forced to pay them and won't even be able to afford out of pocket care.

Furthermore, ACA has put my Med Lab Tech job at risk, as hospitals seek to squeeze even more out of everything. If/when they close our sister hospital, our work will dwindle further.

Words can't express how sorry I am I drank the Obama koolaid. I went back to school, ran my ass into the ground and ruined my self financially for this fucking degree based on the hope that things would change for the better. Instead, the 100% employment of MLT's promotion was a blatant lie, the starting salary was a blatant lie, and now I have no way to pay back the student loans, no way to pay for the insurance I don't want, and my expectation is a lifetime of debt and the ruination of my last chance to follow my dream, after working and sacrificing for it for a lifetime, at least a little tiny bit.

I will be paying the penalty to buy myself a couple more years. And frankly, if crazy eyes Bachman or Sarah Nanook of the North ran on a platform of ended ACA, they would get my vote at this point. That is how much I resent it.