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MadDAsHell

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36. What we most need from the is policies/practices that follow the basic rules of math.

Thu Jan 5, 2017, 01:14 PM

Jan 2017

For all the good things the law does, it clearly fails to acknowledge basic addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication that we all should have learned forever ago.

You cannot adequately price an insurance product with no restrictions, no maximums and absolutely no available information about the likely claims of the person you're insuring. You just cannot. That isn't a Republican talking point.

THAT'S BASIC MATH.

It's a joke that we tried to make all these dramatic changes to how insurance works, and yet tried to do them within the private insurance model.

The "public option" promise became just the opposite; A DOUBLING DOWN of the private insurance status quo.

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Let's Make it REAL SIMPLE for the Deplorables, okay? [View all] TygrBright Jan 2017 OP

To idiots, "repeal Obamacare" means "repeal Obama." Warpy Jan 2017 #1

I say "You broke it, we're all stuck with it, asshole." n/t TygrBright Jan 2017 #3

Many of them want OBAMACARE repealed, but want to keep their ACA insurance. pangaia Jan 2017 #34

The stupid. It burns. progressoid Jan 2017 #37

Recommemnded. These one sentence reasons are great for letters to the Eeditor also. guillaumeb Jan 2017 #2

Thanks. It has to be E-for-easy to grasp. In a single click/glance. n/t TygrBright Jan 2017 #5

How about the GOP wants to take away your health care and let you die? DemocratSinceBirth Jan 2017 #4

To them, that's just more "Librul scaremongering." They won't believe it. TygrBright Jan 2017 #6

They will be happy as a fresh shit jimlup Jan 2017 #7

It can't be any plainer than that. But I think GOPers mainly want to disassociate Health Care from Hoyt Jan 2017 #8

Actually, vouchers are way different and are very bad. lark Jan 2017 #38

Vouchers are a subsidy for premiums. Have nothing to do with contractual adjustment to inflated Hoyt Jan 2017 #39

This is great info. Mind if I use it? brush Jan 2017 #9

Use it, use it! That's what it's for. Reorder it as you wish! n/t TygrBright Jan 2017 #10

My short answer gratuitous Jan 2017 #11

here is what I think Skittles Jan 2017 #12

+1!! 2naSalit Jan 2017 #13

TRUTH nt Maven Jan 2017 #30

Bingo! Your last line says it all. brush Jan 2017 #31

You're forgetting something. Vinca Jan 2017 #14

I swear, I just can't get over the woman whose husband needs a liver transplant & they voted for DT Hekate Jan 2017 #15

Good reminder. It won't do to underestimate the general ignorance level. n/t TygrBright Jan 2017 #16

That story killed me too. They didn't think the law could get changed. pnwmom Jan 2017 #28

Voting for a racist who vows to take away your health care is stupid. Being stupid can kill. brush Jan 2017 #32

Yeah. Sure. Simple you say. Missn-Hitch Jan 2017 #17

Well written JohnnyRingo Jan 2017 #18

"Medicare for All" ymetca Jan 2017 #19

Anyone who thinks the Septic Sphincter and/or the GOP will replace ACA with "Medicare for All"... TygrBright Jan 2017 #21

I hear ya... ymetca Jan 2017 #24

Excellent post. zentrum Jan 2017 #20

Thank you. We always want to explain too much, alas... n/t TygrBright Jan 2017 #22

And often zentrum Jan 2017 #26

This is why so many people respond to Trump's tweets radical noodle Jan 2017 #27

Here is what we should have been saying all along, world wide wally Jan 2017 #23

There is still a donut hole in Plan D Medicare radical noodle Jan 2017 #25

VERY greatly eased. n/t TygrBright Jan 2017 #29

With the ACA it's supposed to be completely closed by 2020 brush Jan 2017 #33

I fear this is still overestimating the general IQ and maturity of republicans, and here's why: lambchopp59 Jan 2017 #35

What we most need from the is policies/practices that follow the basic rules of math. MadDAsHell Jan 2017 #36