Obamacare = forced insurance?
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Not reading what you're saying, the title is like, DUH, but thanks for getting there.
It is DUH for you.. but not for the libtards who can't understand even the simplest concepts.
The media are playing this as if Trump is denying free healthcare coverage from 25 million people. Those people were not getting free healthcare coverage to begin with. What Trump is doing is not FORCING people to pay for coverage that they don't want.People also get the idea that when their employer is paying the healthcare premiums.. that they are getting it for free. Uh.. no. Instead of having more money going into one's paycheck, that money is being taken before the employee ever sees it, and being sent off to the government. Which by the way.. is a concept in communism.
I think you are misunderstanding what the AHCA does. While there isn't a mandate, there is a requirement that you must maintain coverage. If you don't maintain coverage and try to buy insurance later you have to pay more money for it. This will be a disaster as people will wait until they get sick to purchase insurance and then won't be able to afford it. They will be forced to go back and use the ER care which is expensive and not the right kind of care. They won't be able to afford those bills either and then the taxpayers get stuck paying those bills as well as the responsible people who have insurance. I'm sick and tired of paying for freeloaders. ObamaCare eliminated freeloaders and forced everyone to pay something even if it was just a fine.
Well, I somewhat agree with you, however, being FORCED to pay for something that many people don't want, can't afford, and don't need is worse than some freeloaders.
Worse than both of those is that instead of cutting health care costs, Obamacare resulted in premiums spiraling UP out of control. Also, a person paying out of pocket can't compete with the megabucks paid out by insurance companies. Many doctors will not even accept people as a patient paying out of pocket. They REQUIRE that someone has insurance. That is sick. People sit in emergency rooms with wounds and broken bones not receiving any care, while they shove clipboards in front of the victims face to fill out.
Basically.. regardless of the merits of Obamacare.. it FAILED to deliver on what it was supposed to do. Places like hospitals and universities are money pits. They bring in massive amounts of money and who knows how they manage to piss it away. -
The whole idea of forcing people to buy insurance is a conservative idea. It was written by conservatives during the Nixon administration and then kicked around Congress for 30 years until a Republican governor from Massachusetts (the bluest state in the country) decided to implement it in his state. Romney used to talk a lot about how "freeloaders" were destroying the healthcare system. They were forcing higher costs on everyone and bankrupting hospitals. Republicans hate freeloaders so they forced people to pay for their own care.
If the Democrats had their way they would just implement single payer and be done with it. Instead they were forced to enact a Republican plan and all the Republican snowflakes melted over it. Even Romney famously campaigned against his own healthcare plan when he ran for President. How can you vote for a guy like that? He claimed he wanted states to design their own programs and that sounds good at first but what do you think is going to happen in states like Alabama and Mississippi? It's just one more way to create inequality in this country. The biggest problem with states enacting their own programs is that sick people (who are expensive) can simply move to states with better healthcare when they get sick. I know several people who have moved to Massachusetts because nearly everyone has healthcare here. It's extremely easy to get on Medicaid and nearly every doctor accepts it. It's almost unheard of for a doctor not to accept Medicaid in this state.
