OK, so you are against the ACA? Yes or No? (Reply #37)

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Wed Jun 25, 2014, 11:32 AM

riqster (13,986 posts)

37. OK, so you are against the ACA? Yes or No?

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165 replies	Author	Time	Post
Two years ago today, America’s Profit-Driven Health Care system killed my only son. [View all]	riqster	Jun 2014	OP
Well fuck ...	CountAllVotes	Jun 2014	#1
please consider your criticism.	Anansi1171	Jun 2014	#4
You can't directly tell someone on DU to STFU. You have to do it more	ChisolmTrailDem	Jun 2014	#7
You are correct, I was out of line. sigh-nt	Anansi1171	Jun 2014	#13
No worries. =) Many is the time it has poured from my fingertips and I've had to back up, lol. nt	ChisolmTrailDem	Jun 2014	#16
dup	Skittles	Jun 2014	#64
yes, like sending them a truck	Skittles	Jun 2014	#65
I suppose you want the blogger to also change his blog name and domain? You know, the	ChisolmTrailDem	Jun 2014	#5
I hope you never have to bury one of your children.	riqster	Jun 2014	#8
Me too.	Scarsdale	Jun 2014	#21
I am so sorry for your loss.	riqster	Jun 2014	#22
i'm so sorry for your loss.	barbtries	Jun 2014	#32
Scarsdale...	freshwest	Jun 2014	#45
So sorry for your loss. THIS is something the ACA might have helped	Doctor_J	Jun 2014	#51
It was worse than being in debt, back then they would not even have treated him without payment	classykaren	Jun 2014	#153
Same in Ohio.	riqster	Jun 2014	#162
so sorry for losing your son	riverbendviewgal	Jun 2014	#139
Wth good reason	malaise	Jun 2014	#39
Thank you.	riqster	Jun 2014	#41
Here's a movie rec for you: "The Boondock Saints."	FSogol	Jun 2014	#10
Seriously? Criticizing the overuse of fuck in an angry,frustrated rant?	Gormy Cuss	Jun 2014	#23
Right on.	easttexaslefty	Jun 2014	#71
My thoughts exactly.	Laffy Kat	Jun 2014	#136
That's your concern?	LondonReign2	Jun 2014	#26
Way to identify the crux of the issue.	Orrex	Jun 2014	#27
oh for fucks sake....	mike_c	Jun 2014	#57
if you lost your child	MFM008	Jun 2014	#60
Ah the puritan brigade misses the issue	nadinbrzezinski	Jun 2014	#76
Purity is the only issue.... n/t	xocet	Jun 2014	#78
......................	Warren DeMontague	Jun 2014	#87
Well fucking, fuck, fuck, fuck.	dballance	Jun 2014	#113
Sorry for your losses.	riqster	Jun 2014	#120
Thanks.	dballance	Jun 2014	#144
you're supposed to be counting all the votes	hfojvt	Jun 2014	#114
wow, talk about insensitive!	Duppers	Jun 2014	#115
Get back to us after one of your children is neglected to death	Warpy	Jun 2014	#134
It is difficult for me to read something when every other word is ...	CountAllVotes	Jun 2014	#160
.	BlancheSplanchnik	Jun 2014	#143
...	Mnemosyne	Jun 2014	#2
Thanks.	riqster	Jun 2014	#11
The ACA does not remove the profit motive.	alarimer	Jun 2014	#3
The ACA helped, by keeping my boy on my insurance for longer.	riqster	Jun 2014	#6
+1 The ACA entrenches the profit motive by ensuring that subsidies are paid for by taxpayers	woo me with science	Jun 2014	#19
I agree. And one of the big problems is how doctors are no longer trained in the	truedelphi	Jun 2014	#80
If you transform doctors into technicians who merely follow insurance company flowcharts for care,	woo me with science	Jun 2014	#83
The ACA helped get me an insurance plan my family and I could afford.	nomorenomore08	Jun 2014	#112
Exactly right.	riqster	Jun 2014	#121
P.S. I can't believe the poster who chastised you for using "fuck" too many times or whatever	nomorenomore08	Jun 2014	#140
That poster has been taken to the woodshed by a fair few DUers,	riqster	Jun 2014	#147
I am so sorry for your loss. =(	ChisolmTrailDem	Jun 2014	#9
Thanks. I hope that my testimony can help a tiny bit to wake people up.	riqster	Jun 2014	#14
Heartbreaking. So sorry.	JaneyVee	Jun 2014	#12
Thank you.	riqster	Jun 2014	#15
Here is a typical Repube response (from elsewhere):	riqster	Jun 2014	#17
So many reasons to hate the right wingnuts.	Enthusiast	Jun 2014	#92
+1	johnnyreb	Jun 2014	#96
Thanks. Kudos to your folks.	riqster	Jun 2014	#99
I`m so sorry for your loss.	democrank	Jun 2014	#18
Thank you.	riqster	Jun 2014	#24
ACA forces everyone to purchase from these same bad actors (for profit insurers) nt	Romulox	Jun 2014	#20
Incorrect.	riqster	Jun 2014	#28
OK. But the ACA also GUARANTEES fat margins for Aetna, the company you singled out...	Romulox	Jun 2014	#29
It also requires them to spend more on care, and less on denying care.	riqster	Jun 2014	#34
Every red cent that Aetna makes, they make from denying care. That's how they work. nt	Romulox	Jun 2014	#36
OK, so you are against the ACA? Yes or No?	riqster	Jun 2014	#37
The ACA LIMITS their margins	yodermon	Jun 2014	#74
Very good point.	riqster	Jun 2014	#84
And, a big chunk of the 20% goes for administrative costs, marketing, maintaining systems, etc.	Hoyt	Jun 2014	#101
No, it restrains those margins	frazzled	Jun 2014	#111
I don't understand	FBaggins	Jun 2014	#81
The ACA forced Aetna to cover him.	riqster	Jun 2014	#85
Yeah, it took the real problem (for-profit insurers) and locked them in	Doctor_J	Jun 2014	#46
Crap. The ACA forced insurers to cover my kid.	riqster	Jun 2014	#53
I'm sorry for your loss...	Blanks	Jun 2014	#25
Thanks.	riqster	Jun 2014	#31
What a horrible ordeal	Orrex	Jun 2014	#30
Thank you.	riqster	Jun 2014	#33
100%. I don't talk about the death and disability in my family that would NOT have been if Obama	freshwest	Jun 2014	#35
Thanks. Sorry you had to deal with such an event.	riqster	Jun 2014	#38
Still crying from your post. There are no words to end the pain, but your words will save lives.	freshwest	Jun 2014	#47
I hope so. That is why I wrote them.	riqster	Jun 2014	#50
Err...no one is telling you that your kid should have died sooner	Doctor_J	Jun 2014	#48
You want an actual answer? People who would exploit this story and attempt to preach at the author	Bluenorthwest	Jun 2014	#52
People who bash the ACA after I credit it for keeping my kid alive longer	riqster	Jun 2014	#55
I'm so sorry .	cate94	Jun 2014	#40
Thank you.	riqster	Jun 2014	#42
The ACA won't help this much	Doctor_J	Jun 2014	#43
If you are going to us Bernie as avatar, you should post more accurate information	Bluenorthwest	Jun 2014	#49
I allowed for those in my post	Doctor_J	Jun 2014	#54
But it is still profit over lives based healthcare	FreakinDJ	Jun 2014	#56
That's my only point in this thread, which I will now leave	Doctor_J	Jun 2014	#61
What rot your subject line is:	riqster	Jun 2014	#58
You are exactly right	Number23	Jun 2014	#142
Nonstop complaining helps what exactly?	IronLionZion	Jun 2014	#97
A worthy rant. Thanks.	byronius	Jun 2014	#44
Thanks. I rarely drop f-bombs. Today, I am f-carpet-bombing.	riqster	Jun 2014	#67
K & R for righteous anger.	davidthegnome	Jun 2014	#59
Thank you. And yes, we need to make it better.	riqster	Jun 2014	#62
Sorry for your loss	Demsrule86	Jun 2014	#63
My condolences.	riqster	Jun 2014	#66
I don't think I've heard anything good about Aetna-	KrazyinKS	Jun 2014	#68
Oh yeah. Five of us, all in poor health ourselves, spent years hassling with those motherfuckers.	riqster	Jun 2014	#70
You can address this letter to many people on this site.	iandhr	Jun 2014	#69
S'truth.	riqster	Jun 2014	#73
No way I could read that and not rec it.	BootinUp	Jun 2014	#72
Thank you.	riqster	Jun 2014	#75
I damn well understand so well his many fuck yous-the State of Washington let my daughter die for $3	Stargazer99	Jun 2014	#77
I get those calls too. I have refused to pay a goddamned dime.	riqster	Jun 2014	#79
rigster, are you Mr. Blunt and Cranky? nt	tblue37	Jun 2014	#82
Kick & Rec	Warren DeMontague	Jun 2014	#86
Thanks.	riqster	Jun 2014	#93
And this is why the fuck we need UNIVERSAL fucking HEALTHCARE!	RoccoR5955	Jun 2014	#88
The ACA wasn't all bad.	riqster	Jun 2014	#90
Sad fact is, if it had been Medicare, chances are Medicare would have forced discharge that	Hoyt	Jun 2014	#102
Possible. But eliminating the profit motive would still help.	riqster	Jun 2014	#148
Actually the decision to cut off hospital funding would be made by an	Hoyt	Jun 2014	#155
Rigster, I am so sorry about your loss, and you are totally correct!	LongTomH	Jun 2014	#89
Thanks. We need to get to national health care.	riqster	Jun 2014	#91
Kicked and recommended!	Enthusiast	Jun 2014	#94
That is a lot of people getting flipped off.	riqster	Jun 2014	#95
Sorry for your loss, K + R	IronLionZion	Jun 2014	#98
Thank you.	riqster	Jun 2014	#100
And here's a big "fuck you" to Squatt Wanker for denying Medicaid to tens of thousands of citizens..	Scuba	Jun 2014	#103
Yeah, and the Ohio repubes have tried their best to do the same.	riqster	Jun 2014	#122
I wish I had the right words to say but there is too much unnecessary death, I am so sorry. n/t	Jefferson23	Jun 2014	#104
Thanks.	riqster	Jun 2014	#124
We live in a capitalist society.	DeSwiss	Jun 2014	#105
True. Health and profit cannot coexist.	riqster	Jun 2014	#125
I'm so sorry	jimlup	Jun 2014	#106
Thank you.	riqster	Jun 2014	#126
riqster, I am so very very sorry.	Raine1967	Jun 2014	#107
Thank you. I have (as have others) been pushing for reform for years now.	riqster	Jun 2014	#108
Yes we will.	Raine1967	Jun 2014	#146
I am not offended by the F-bombs. I am offended by the so-called healthcare in	LoisB	Jun 2014	#109
Yeah, they are evil.	riqster	Jun 2014	#127
Well said. nt	valerief	Jun 2014	#110
Thank you.	riqster	Jun 2014	#128
Please accept my deepest condolences for your loss.	greatlaurel	Jun 2014	#116
Word up, and thanks.	riqster	Jun 2014	#130
They killed my 3 1/2 year old son too!	Dustlawyer	Jun 2014	#117
Oh my God...so sorry for your loss. You offer good advice, for us all. n/t	Jefferson23	Jun 2014	#129
Dylan Andrew, 3/19/92 - 6/25/12	riqster	Jun 2014	#131
If only the insurance companies were not allowed to kill people	Dragonfli	Jun 2014	#118
It was two years ago, so yes, some provisions hadn't kicked in yet.	riqster	Jun 2014	#132
A health-care system based purely on greed and profit is but a microcosm of America in its	indepat	Jun 2014	#119
No argument from here.	riqster	Jun 2014	#133
Sweet riqster..	Cha	Jun 2014	#123
Thanks Cha.	riqster	Jun 2014	#135
..	Cha	Jun 2014	#141
Horrific.. I am so, so very sorry. And angry. Righteous rant nt	riderinthestorm	Jun 2014	#137
Thanks.	riqster	Jun 2014	#149
My 26 year old son died in 1999	riverbendviewgal	Jun 2014	#138
Sigh. Mark Twain was right about families.	riqster	Jun 2014	#150
so sorry for your loss	Locrian	Jun 2014	#161
Sounds like yet another bit of Fox cut-and-paste bilge	riqster	Jun 2014	#163
I agree	riverbendviewgal	Jun 2014	#164
We have learned my son's death was due to gross medical negligence	Oilwellian	Jun 2014	#145
Thanks. Please accept my condolences for your loss.	riqster	Jun 2014	#151
I am so sorry just reading this tears me up.	classykaren	Jun 2014	#152
Thank you.	riqster	Jun 2014	#154
So sorry for your loss.	raouldukelives	Jun 2014	#156
It's worse than that: many people don't know that they are thus invested.	riqster	Jun 2014	#157
This is such a horrible story. I will never	cntrygrl	Jun 2014	#158
The nation has always been a bit of a contradiction	riqster	Jun 2014	#159
I agree.	cntrygrl	Jul 2014	#165

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