GOP Wants CHOICE in health care. It's seductive... but what are the best agruments against "Choice"?

[Ms. Toad]

2. Their "Choice" argument is a strawman.

People have choice now - at least as much as they had before the ACA.

Virtually all insurance plans (ACA or not) have in-network and out-of-network doctors and drug formularies. They have since at least the 80s. If you want to see a doctor out-of-network, you pay more (or perhaps all). Same thing for drugs. I've had to switch doctors when my employer changed insurance companies because my old doctor was not in-network for the new plan. I've had to either switch drugs - or go through lengthy appeal processes to obtain the drug that worked.

This is not new under the ACA - but people who haven't had insurance before haven't necessarily had enough exposure to insurance plans to know how it works.