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In reply to the discussion: I hope the Supreme Court kills the Affordable Health Care Act. ALL of it. [View all]kenny blankenship
(15,689 posts)and more would go on dying, because the Obamacare is an INSURANCE "reform" not a healthcare reform. Having insurance doesn't mean you get healthcare. Having a "subsidy" for your premiums doesn't mean you could afford to use your insurance. Millions have been bankrupted from illnesses who had insurance, and that would not change one bit under Obamacare. We would still be the asshole of the developed world in that regard. People would still die in the USA because insurance goons refuse to authorize diagnostic tests on a timely basis, allowing their diseases to progress incorrectly diagnosed. People with preexisting conditions would still be unable to afford their coverage. There were no cost controls - the so-called Medical Loss Ratio is an incentive to collude with providers to drive prices up relentlessly, and didn't shave the insurers' profit margins even back to what they were in the Clinton era. The whole thing was a sham to cement a dysfunctional, extortionate "system" into place in perpetuity and to PREVENT modernization and reform from occurring.
People should take their anger and demand something that would actually work.