I wish people wouldn't be so rude to those who lose out under the ACA.

[StrayKat]

191. Me too.

Although I don't share the view that we're all better off for the ACA, I think that the knee-jerk "You're lying!" reaction to everyone posting a complaint or asking for more information isn't helping anymore than the actual lying being done by a few trolls.

Universal health care is long overdue in this country, but the ACA in its current form is not what is needed. Our health care system was long busted before the ACA came into effect, and it's still broken now and will continue to be so because the ACA does more to address payment and insurance than health care which is generally very overpriced, inequitably applied, sometimes less effective than treatments elsewhere, and always a bit of a guessing game.

It's true that some people will come out winners with the new ACA scheme (insurance companies!), but generally we're all losers. We didn't get the universal health care we needed or that much of the developed world is enjoying. We're all being forced to cough up money to unscrupulous insurance companies in order to take part in a broken health care system where we have to beg and plead carriers by way of claim forms, requests for procedures, and lengthy games of phone tag just to get access to our own money. Even so, we're not guaranteed that our claims won't be denied, that our preferred doctors or providers will accept our insurance, that we can access the medications that are most effective, or that our money is being used effectively.

There are legitimate complaints out there, and anyone actually interested in making the ACA work would be heeding them with an eye toward how to resolve them and make healthcare and coverage in the US better. People really are being taken aback by policy cancellations, coverage changes, premium hikes, the confusion of possibly buying insurance for the first time in their lives, and a roll out that is inarguably not gone according to plan.