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In reply to the discussion: Obamacare ends corporate invasion of privacy. [View all]Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)8. They don't care as much as you think because they get to way overcharge for covering such people.
And they still haven't even begun to get their hired politicians to start the process of weakening what restrictions there are to slightly impede their vampirific imperative to suck as much wealth as possible by playing the completely unnecessary role of in-between whose largest divisions still seek ways to deny actual care as often as possible or to simply place care at a deductible price that struggling workers do not have the cash to meet.
Choosing them to be in charge of our health rather than doctors makes as much sense as placing a nosferatu between your arm and your phlebotomist and paying him to dine on half the blood.
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Why? None of that would matter because preexisting conditions can't be excluded anymore.n/t
pnwmom
Sep 2013
#2
Because of the ACA customers who get screwed can switch to a competetor who covers it.
tridim
Sep 2013
#5
They don't care as much as you think because they get to way overcharge for covering such people.
Dragonfli
Sep 2013
#8
I apologize, for some reason I thought we all went into a special risk pool, I guess I was mistaken.
Dragonfli
Sep 2013
#15
The unnecessary and vampirific nature of the very existence of insurance middle men
Dragonfli
Sep 2013
#18
I didn't say higher costs would be confined to patients with pre-existing condition
Nuclear Unicorn
Sep 2013
#53
"By pulling more people into the system through the individual mandate"
Nuclear Unicorn
Sep 2013
#56
I am very sorry about what happened to your wife. The ACA was written to try to prevent
pnwmom
Sep 2013
#32
You appear to be missing the point, we were well insured, Insurance care is very expensive to USE,
Dragonfli
Sep 2013
#43
I think you missed my point. An insurer won't be able to string a patient along for 9 months
pnwmom
Sep 2013
#45
You know I am too angry to continue here, stop pretending the evil was vanquished,
Dragonfli
Sep 2013
#50
I didn't say "evil was vanquished," I said that the ACA is trying to fix the problem.
pnwmom
Sep 2013
#52
She has been relying on insurance companies to treat two serious, life threatening illnesses
Ms. Toad
Sep 2013
#40
I do know that investigating providers for fraud is a definite cost-saving measure...
Hekate
Sep 2013
#36
Heritage claims the mandate part. But not the other key parts (expansion of Medicaid, etc.).
SunSeeker
Sep 2013
#44
Alerted on our newbie friend and got a reply faster than light: 3/3 to leave it.
Hekate
Sep 2013
#37
Ha! Apparently an alerter with more clout or a different jury took another look...
Hekate
Sep 2013
#39
Me too. Whoever alerted first got a crap jury, but MIR noticed the repeated alerts.
SunSeeker
Sep 2013
#62
The goal is free health care as a benefit for being a citizen of the richest cou,...wait a sec....
Spitfire of ATJ
Sep 2013
#38
thanks for that. We need answers as to where the work is being done and what our
antigop
Sep 2013
#51
Wondering if the internet connection is secure since most public ones are not.
uppityperson
Sep 2013
#61