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6. The uninsured rate matters little if you still can't afford healthcare
Thu Apr 14, 2016, 06:37 AM
Apr 2016

If a person can't afford the deductible then what you have is a government forcing millions of people to spend thousands of dollars each for a service they still cannot use.

For far too many lower middle class people, the ACA has just been a giveaway to insurance companies. It's one of the reasons Trump's brand of rhetoric is so popular.

oh, c'mon. the ACA is the mostest wonderfullest progressive thing ever! KG Apr 2016 #1
Or ... the ACA is the mostest worstest disasterousest thing ever! because, Obama. pampango Apr 2016 #2
Avoid binary thinking. cf. Posts #1 and #2 Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2016 #3
The uninsured rate matters little if you still can't afford healthcare Android3.14 Apr 2016 #6
Add a public option. Adrahil Apr 2016 #9
Unless we get the landscape of Congress changed I don't see either happening. Amimnoch Apr 2016 #14
Incrementalism is the answer, says Hillary... Human101948 Apr 2016 #15
Perhaps you can provide a theoretical roll call vote? Amimnoch Apr 2016 #18
I just donated to Tim Canova... Human101948 Apr 2016 #24
Some it's just $1 to help their numbers. Amimnoch Apr 2016 #29
Okay, so we're on the same page... Human101948 Apr 2016 #31
That thinking... scscholar Apr 2016 #26
EXACTLY! SammyWinstonJack Apr 2016 #10
My daughter has it Demsrule86 Apr 2016 #23
100% EdwardBernays Apr 2016 #28
After the Cadillac tax, we'll... scscholar Apr 2016 #33
This year I'll pay 600 in premium Skink Apr 2016 #34
Insurance is not Healthcare magical thyme Apr 2016 #11
The sun rises in the East. Gravity sucks. Water is wet. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2016 #13
A vacuum sucks. Gravity just is. nt magical thyme Apr 2016 #20
A vacuum doesn't suck; the air behind pushes. Gravity is not "just is"; it requires presence of mass Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2016 #21
You have the wrong longhair as your avatar... Human101948 Apr 2016 #25
my vacuum sucks dirt into it. nt magical thyme Apr 2016 #37
The false zero is a deadly sin of data presentation. N.T. Donald Ian Rankin Apr 2016 #44
Market solutions will never be satisfactory except to the profit takers. Enthusiast Apr 2016 #4
absolutely, Mbrow Apr 2016 #8
Hell, people just above the expanded medicaid cutoff will get squeezed, too. strategery blunder Apr 2016 #5
And in just a couple of years, the subsidies start getting cut. Yo_Mama Apr 2016 #22
Medicare for All, including dental, optical, hearing aids and mental health services. Scuba Apr 2016 #7
This, and do it before I go stage 4 Umbral18 Apr 2016 #16
Then stop at my garage sale. i may have something that'll fit. Scuba Apr 2016 #17
You are correct yourpaljoey Apr 2016 #27
Perhaps we should consider a national public insurance system funded through taxes Warren Stupidity Apr 2016 #12
The affordable care act also included provisions that have led to tests for other models for paying karynnj Apr 2016 #19
All it is is mandatory health insurance WDIM Apr 2016 #30
The "affordable" care act has done nothing to make care more affordable tularetom Apr 2016 #32
This has already happened to us & will indeed be the demise of the whole house of cards that is ACA Kip Humphrey Apr 2016 #35
why do you think the subsidies will disappear? hfojvt Apr 2016 #41
I could be wrong but I thought it was written into the law tularetom Apr 2016 #42
I don't find that in a search hfojvt Apr 2016 #43
The Democrats passed an ACA that does nothing for the working poor Dems to Win Apr 2016 #36
oh he can too afford to goto a doctor hfojvt Apr 2016 #39
No, you don't understand the concept of a deductible Dems to Win Apr 2016 #45
"Every time I write a story ..." hfojvt Apr 2016 #38
Don't get expensively sick n/t eridani Apr 2016 #46
It's a cluster $%^%. According to every healthcare provider I have talked to. nt clarice Apr 2016 #40
Single Payer NOW! Dont call me Shirley Apr 2016 #47
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