I don't enjoy GD anymore

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202. I don't know what you mean by that first sentence.

But I'll give it a go.
No that's not what I meant. But it does affect people on medicare, wellness checks for free and closing up the donut hole.
My cousin has had diabetes since he was a teenager. By the time he was 35 he had gone into kidney failure. He moved up to Alaska where I'm at because he was on his last legs. He had been in a coma many times in a few year period of time and the doctors said there wasn't anymore he could do besides dyalysis. He was doing bad when we picked him up from the nursing home and i thought he was going to die. Once he got up here he finally qualified for Medicaid and Medicare, he had been denied in California several times but in Alaska he got it. Had health care reform not passed I might not have tried to apply for him again since he'd been denied before.
Six months ago he got a double organ transplant ( pancreas, kidney). He is no longer diabetic. He does need to take anti rejection drugs every day an they cost a lot. Medicare pays for them and since the donut hole is closed he doesn't have to choose whether to buy his meds or buy food.
You are right. It is health insurance reform, not health care reform.
I hope one day I'll wake up to find that all the health insurance companies have filed bankruptcy and we can just pay our health tax every year and have single payer. We do pay too much.
Our health care outcomes are poor in comparison, if we stay sick longer they get paid more.
I want single payer, but I never get what I want, when I want it. I probably never will. That doesn't mean I won't push for it. I will.