One in five families have trouble paying medical bills

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2. Why I hate the ACA title

The HCR act did little to nothing to make health CARE affordable to a large number of people. Health care is projected, by the White House, to inflate at around 7% per year EVEN AFTER the act is fully implimented. They get all excited at the additional 7-8% of the population that will now have health insurance, while ignoring that roughly 20% of the population ALREADY had health insurance, and couldn't afford to use it. That's only going to get WORSE as time goes forward. We decided to force people to buy health insurance (well, except for the REALLY poor but working, they are exempt. 'Course, they are also "exempt" from actually getting health CARE too.) but we did very little to ensure they could afford the under lying care. Certain diagnostic procedures are covered at 100%. Of course if they actually FIND anything, then the real costs start.

The primary result of HCR was to slow the rate of growth of health insurance to the government, mostly medicare and medicaid. For the vast majority of the rest of us, it changed little to nothing and to some extent, for some of us, just raised the cost. Yes, there was alot of INSURANCE reform in this, but much of that won't affect the cost of health CARE and won't actually affect even a plurality of us going forward. That was actually intentional too. Obama repeatedly stated that the intent of his strategy was to NOT change anything for the vast majority of people. This, in a country in which we all pay 3 - 5 times as much for our health care as the rest of the world.

And yet there are those that want to dismiss the difference between health care reform and health insurance reform as mere "semantics".