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They’re having fits about the entire thing. Some are posting their policies then showing how much they’re going up. The deductibles are going way up and they are losing their plans because they don’t include all sorts of things like maternity care, etc. To be an “approved” plan you have to buy coverage for these things even if you will never use them.

I didn't know you would be forced to buy maternity and pediatric care when you are a male and have no kids. Mental health, additional prescription, pediatric and maternity, etc.

Single female, age 47, make too much for subsidies, the "Anthem Bronze" individual plan would be $230/mo for me (not bad but) .... a $6,000 deductible and a 60% co-pay. There's no way in HELL I am buying this, since, short of getting hit by a bus & having a heart attack, a coma and organ failure all at the same time, I'm never going to come near that deductible. Oh, and I don't need maternity or pediatric dental, either.

You either have to go to the exchange or get a better policy that will cover things you will never need.

They are saying Obama lied when he said if you like your plan you can keep it. So far, nobody qualifies for a subsidy or the subsidy will not offset the huge increases.

Im out of work due to needing a surgery, and dont have insurance. And since my income is too LOW to qualify for subsidies, I dont get shit. I get to hold my breath and wait to see if my state expands medicaid, which it has not done.

Some are trying to defend it.

We're supposed to be liberal Democrats on this site. The selfishness on a Democratic site is disheartening. This is part and parcel of living in a society where we have some sense of responsibility for others outside of ourselves. No man is an island, etc. etc. I am a senior whose children are grown and in their 40's and I don't whine and moan about paying taxes for public schools. Someone paid taxes for my children to go to school. When I was younger I didn't whine and moan about paying Medicare and Social Security taxes when my senior years were far off in the distance. It's part of the social contract that we pool our resources to help each other out, and I always thought that Democrats valued that. I've read so many posts both here and on Facebook that start with, "But this doesn't help me any." Then we complain about the "me" society.

Also, some of the liberals had no idea that a mandate meant that they had to purchase health insurance. Some other liberals explained it to them and they are not too happy knowing that they have to purchase it.