Posted on 08/20/2016 10:29:09 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Health care will be on Rebecca Esparza’s mind in the voting booth this fall.
The two-time cancer survivor from Corpus Christi, Texas, says repealing the Affordable Care Act could make her uninsurable. The health law protects people with pre-existing medical conditions from being denied coverage. …
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Tying insurance to employment arrangements was a crude way of managing a risk pool, but at least it did.
It was figured, correctly, that if you could work, you were well enough off that it was a feasible risk to cover both you and yours, with some mild restrictions and delays.
Obamacare has brought an “atomization bomb” to the picture. This is just like so many soi-disant “liberals” — to incentivize the fracturing of effort, the fracturing of society.
I don’t think anyone forgot.
I hope nobody forgets that Paul Ryno and the rest of the Uniparty is helping fund this, too.
The supreme court ruled that no one can be denied emergency care.
Medicaid also pays for the medical care of those who can’t afford it.
The issue here is those who CAN pay for their own medical care, but don’t want to spend their money on it.
They sure are layin’ it on THICK these days...as 0bamacare swirls down the bowl...
Donald should too... like the toilet cleaner that clings until it has done its job.
Just so doctors and hospital executives and drug company executives and shareholders can get extraordinarily rich, a typical family of four in the USA will be out $18,000/year [mainly via their employer(s)] for health coverage instead of about $5,000/year.
This sob story and lots of others only will continue to cost a typical family of four about a $13,000/year fleecing.
Do these people even know what insurance is? It’s not something you buy after the fact. You can’t buy discounted taxpayer subsidized car insurance to pay for an accident you already had. It doesn’t work that way.
It would seem, are failing to block or rescind this appropriation?
Don’t forget gummit droids who need a raison d’etre. Lots of droids. They put even private fatcats to shame.
You’re forcing others to pay your medical bills.
What about people who paid for insurance their entire working life but lose their employer-provided insurance, for whatever reason?
Prior to the ACA unless they got another job with an employer who offered health insurance they were unable to get a new policy if they had a pre-existing condition, regardless of their willingness to keep paying.
In a capitalist model, that’s what it is.
In a secular socialist model, it’s the name given to a secular sinecure.
COBRA was supposed to be a way of limiting this.
So sorry to hear about all the health issues your family has been dealing with. Puts a lot of this stuff in perspective.
The way we've provided health insurance has caused many distortions, both economic and societal.
COBRA, though usually expensive, works great for 18 months. After that...
A healthier economy will mitigate problems associated with lack of employment.
When arranging for safety nets, one always has to avoid the desire to craft them into hammocks.
Not necessarily. You had to prove that you were uninsured for at least 6 months before you could apply for most state high risk pools.
You could easily be denied coverage by every insurer in a state yet be ineligible for any state-owned program.
Is that what this person did?
Painful, flawed, but also no other real way to assure that the programs were being used as intended.
There are always going to be compromises in a state that is not an utterly nanny state.
When I could buy COBRA for $57.21/month back in 1987, COBRA worked great.
I haven’t had health insurance for about 23 years now.
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