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In reply to the discussion: News About Obamacare Has Been Bad Lately. How Bad? [View all]Dems to Win
(2,161 posts)36. The Democrats passed an ACA that does nothing for the working poor
I'm voting for Bernie in hope that my brother, a WalMart employee, can finally get health care. WalMart now gives him a 'health insurance' policy with a $5500 deductible -- for a $10/hr employee! He still can't afford to go to the doctor when he gets sick.
The ACA was passed solely by Democrats, not a single Repub vote. So why did the Dems pass a Republican plan? Nancy Pelosi bragged that the ACA included 200 Republican amendments.
I'm furious that Democrats passed a 'health care reform' that leaves out the working poor. If the ACA is the best we can expect from incremental Dems, then the hell with them. We need drastic change.
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Or ... the ACA is the mostest worstest disasterousest thing ever! because, Obama.
pampango
Apr 2016
#2
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
Hell, people just above the expanded medicaid cutoff will get squeezed, too.
strategery blunder
Apr 2016
#5
Medicare for All, including dental, optical, hearing aids and mental health services.
Scuba
Apr 2016
#7
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
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
It's a cluster $%^%. According to every healthcare provider I have talked to. nt
clarice
Apr 2016
#40