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In reply to the discussion: I’m freaking depressed....Poll shows Obamacare.. [View all]NM_Birder
(1,591 posts)25. First bottom line regarding the ACA in my opinion:
If the ACA is what's best for us peons, then the people who voted for it should pony up some balls and join it too.
If your answer to that is anything related to "they can afford the insurance they want", you will have the reason why people still balk at it. A lot of people could afford the insurance they wanted, but the people dropped out of their plans are statistically ignored.
If 10million people join, and 4 million people are dropped, and of that 10 million people that joined 2 million joined because of medicare/medicade the result is a solid 1/2 like it. 1/2 hate it which is basically what is being said. The political investment, the monetary investment, and the personal investment it took to 12th hour pass the ACA .......... to result in a statistical wash, with a net profit gain to the same insurance providers .............. about as inspirational and inspiring as "we don't spy on American's" turned out to be.
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No one likes to be forced to buy a product from a third party corporation.
former9thward
Aug 2014
#2
Yep. Younger Americans don't like to be forced to buy something they don't think they need.
Dawgs
Aug 2014
#3
We buy auto insurnace and many do not think we will be involved in an accident. Auto insurance is
Thinkingabout
Aug 2014
#6
You purchase liability insurance in case you are driving a vehicle in which is involved in an
Thinkingabout
Aug 2014
#15
I'm not saying I agree with them. I'm just saying that many younger people think like libertarians.
Dawgs
Aug 2014
#17
Can we count on the libertarians to pay a hospital bill they might get in the future?
Thinkingabout
Aug 2014
#22
I can't say this is an advantage,there are lots of citizens who has not and will not drive a vehicle
Thinkingabout
Aug 2014
#27
There is simply no comparison betwen auto ins and healthcare. This old meme has
sabrina 1
Aug 2014
#48
And as an insured person who is charged rates by health care facilities to cover
Thinkingabout
Aug 2014
#51
From some of the remarks about ACA from some folks since it was not a single payer system they
Thinkingabout
Aug 2014
#4
That's because the folks who already HAVE decent insurance, and who already hate Obama
SoCalDem
Aug 2014
#5
Stupid people will never know they were duped, especially by their own stupidity. They will continue
Pisces
Aug 2014
#10
Right wing nuts who think its Socialism + Far left folks pissed that its not.
JoePhilly
Aug 2014
#19
poll finds misperceptions about the ACA,persist for the ignorant. You shouldn't be 'depressed'.
Sunlei
Aug 2014
#20
The bigger problem is that is lackluster reform even as a market based strategy
TheKentuckian
Aug 2014
#29
You feel the same way about ALL laws,...... that "debate over it to be closed"
NM_Birder
Aug 2014
#30