Reply #5: For starters

[Raineyb]

Medicaid is not health insurance and the government will hound you for your financial information semiannually waiting for you to make a dollar over the limit so they can demand you pay them back.

Secondly, forcing people to buy insurance but allowing outrageous co-pays and deductibles that people can't afford doesn't get them health care. It gets them broke and still not seeing a doctor.

Third of all, This bill allows the insurance companies to charge older people triple what younger people pay. There is nothing stopping the insurance companies from charging higher prices based on past conditions. In addition, there's nothing to say that they can't charge outrages prices for pre-existing conditions. Not to mention, they still allow insurance companies to rescind policies based on "fraud." What difference would it make to the insurance compares if they were forced to cover everyone, without discriminatory pricing, regardless of condition, if you forgot to mention you had acne as a 12 year old?

You can polish it all you want but it's still a turd.