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NightWatcher

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8. So will insurance companies start dropping sick people on Day 1?

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Mon Jan 2, 2017, 04:03 PM

Jan 2017

And what happens to those of us who have conditions?

Are we all going to be dumped, never to get coverage again?

Or will they keep the mandate, raise rates, AND refuse to cover sick people?

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Repealing Obamacare affects everyone [View all] SHRED Jan 2017 OP

All the more reason why they are going to kill it. Eliot Rosewater Jan 2017 #1

And then what? SHRED Jan 2017 #2

No, but it will be too late then and none of their voters will ever vote for a democrat. Eliot Rosewater Jan 2017 #3

Agree. Unfortunately, there were a lot of Democrats who bashed Obamacare too. Hoyt Jan 2017 #4

Including Bill Clinton LiberalLovinLug Jan 2017 #12

It definitely has problems, but seems to look a whole lot better to Democratic critics now. Hoyt Jan 2017 #15

After the repeal older employees can get fired if they are using too much medical care kimbutgar Jan 2017 #5

I'm in California SHRED Jan 2017 #7

I live in California also. kimbutgar Jan 2017 #9

Yes they are. SHRED Jan 2017 #10

Premium increases were not popular bucolic_frolic Jan 2017 #6

So will insurance companies start dropping sick people on Day 1? NightWatcher Jan 2017 #8

was just reading Repealing Obamacare on twitter Takket Jan 2017 #11

So long as minorities and other "undeserving" get hit hardest, GeoWilliam750 Jan 2017 #13

there is so much good and so much bad in Obamacare - maybe the good stays.... covadcalifornia Jan 2017 #14

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