This fiasco called “Obamacare” was providing either minimal coverage, or in some instances, no coverage at all, due to only a limited menu of covered procedures, and compulsory coverage of many other procedures or drugs that were of no use to large parts of the population that was supposedly being “given” this benefit, or the co-pays were so high that effectively all the health care was being paid out of pocket.
Whatever was the pretext under which this law was passed, has almost completely disappeared, like the snow in the spring rains, and we are hit with the deluge.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is very possibly the most absurdly misnamed legislation ever passed. The proper name for it would be the Patient Abandonment and Unaffordable Don’t Give a Damn Act. Many people now are in the absurd position of having health insurance in name only. Add up the monthly premiums for one year, add in the deductibles, the co-pays etc. that must be met before the insurance pays anything, coupled with the low coverage, often only seventy percent of hospital costs, after the insurance finally starts paying and they would be much better off to have no insurance. At least they would save the costs of the premiums and could use that to meet out of pocket costs. Of course then they would have to pay the damned fine for not having the worthless “insurance”. Nancy Pelosi and the rest who are responsible for pushing this mess through should have their every dime taken and used to pay the medical bills of people who have become victims of this abomination. Then she should be locked up and given nothing for entertainment but a copy of the whole two thousand pages or however many pages it is now and every five minutes a guard should stop at her cell and scream, “HAVE YOU FIGURED OUT WHAT’S IN IT YET PELOSI!!!!”