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In reply to the discussion: Most Americans oppose health law but like provisions [View all]dflprincess
(29,336 posts)No it doesn't. It mandates that people have "coverage" it doesn't say that that coverage can't have out of pockets so high that a person still can't afford to see a doctor when they need to. Yes, the bill does cover some preventative and screening procedures but those don't do you a lot of good if you can't afford any follow up. It can cost thousands of dollars to find out the weird spot on the mammogram is benign and, if you have to pay that out of pocket you may not be able to find out just what that spot is - and if you can't afford that, you just might skip the test altogether.
The big winners are the insurance companies who have been handed millions of new victims to cheat; the credit card companies as many of American will try to cover out of pocket expenses with plastic and the bankruptcy lawyers as we remain the only country that allows medical bills to drive people to financial ruin.