Obamacare killed 80,000 people in 2015

American Thinker ^ | 7 May, 2017 | Karin McQuillan

[KosmicKitty]

BOcare cost my husband his job (in the healthcare support field), and we have done several stints without healthcare due to the agencies we used shutting down and $1200 a month for healthcare is out of our budget.

Stab the beast and kill it - don’t replace!!

[Engedi]

Folks on Medicaid most likely get food stamps; they buy cheap, processed food to make the food stretch. This in turn leads to being over-weight, high blood pressure, diabetes, heart issues, back and knee issues due to being over-weight, etc.

[cornfedcowboy]

Umm no. Heroin didn’t just come along because OxyContin became more difficult to acquire. Heroin has become quite cheap and readily available for those who seek it.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

“i think that all of 0bamacare should have been repealed. We should just go back to private insurance.” - MtnClimber

That’s the plan, though it will take time. IMHO the content of the House bill just passed is really not that important, nor will be the content of the Senate bill. The rubber hits the road in the reconciliation process. Then, another (or more) bill and some EO’s will be required to unwrap the tentacles of Obamacare.

ObaminationCare broke some things that it will cost money to fix. Such as existing contracts covering conditions which, to a new insurance contractor can only constitute “preexisting” conditions. If you liked your plan, you could not keep your plan - and that “fixed” some things that weren’t broken.

[jdsteel]

We'll see if the free market will actually be reintroduced into the health insurance industry or not. Time will tell if you and I will be able to choose between coverage that does or does not cover Pre-existing, is full boat or just major medical, does or do not cover maternity, etc. etc. etc.

I am not saying it WILL happen. I am just saying it COULD happen.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

“Insurance” covering preexisting conditions is not insurance. To the extent that it is sold to a person below the cost of the treatment the condition implies, it is beneficence. Welfare, if you will.

And everyone who lost coverage due to Obamination “Care” lost the coverage their previous insurance company owed them at the time they lost their plan. That insurance company owed that coverage because they bet that that condition would not occur - and lost their bet.

When the Democrats voided that existing policy they stole from the covered individual and gave to the insurance company. Not that the insurance companies seem to have profited by it, overall. Seems like the insurance companies’ best interest was to fold up shop instantly, and pocket the reserves they had accumulated against future claims. Rather than staying in a fool’s game once the rules had been corrupted.