As it was designed to do.
"Call it the stupidity of the American voter" - Obamacare architect.
Posted on 04/03/2023 5:01:06 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The 'Affordable Care Act' has caused — and is still causing — countless avoidable American deaths.
On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed his namesake legislation, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) colloquially Obamacare, into law. On March 23, 2023, the Biden-Harris administration celebrated the ACA's thirteenth anniversary. They should be holding a funeral, not a celebration party.
The ACA has caused countless avoidable American deaths. They are due to Washington's conflation of a piece of paper (an insurance policy) with a professional service: medical care.
Xavier Becerra, the Health and Human Services secretary, astonishingly missing during the entire COVID health crisis, declared the following: "As we celebrate the anniversary of the Affordable Care Act today ... this law has lived up to its name, providing a way for Americans to access quality, affordable health coverage."
The ACA did indeed expand medical insurance to more Americans. In 2000, Medicaid enrollment was 15.6 percent of the U.S. population. In 2022, that number has nearly doubled: 27.7 percent of Americans — 92,340,585 individuals — were enrolled in the taxpayer-funded, no-charge-to-enrollees program. Thus, nearly one third of the country has medical insurance and, according to Secretary Becerra, "have the peace of mind that comes with high-quality health care."
Note the conflation of care with insurance. Washington wants you to think having the latter means you get the former, presumably when you need it. Otherwise, what good is insurance? Having insurance does not mean getting timely care. In fact, there is a seesaw effect: as the number of people with government-provided insurance increases, access to care decreases.
Before the ACA, average maximum wait time to see a primary care physician was a unconscionable: 92 days. With ACA expansion of government-provided, no-charge Medicaid insurance, maximum wait times increased to 120 days and produced death-by-queue.
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Deductibles have gone so high that most insurance is only Catastrophic coverage, but at least the premiums have only doubled.
Nevermind the results of the ACA, what’s important is how good it made those socialists feel to pass it. And it is amazing how good lining your own pockets at others expense feels to our corrupt gov’t.
My Paper mâché policy would have required ten thousand dollars out of pocket before it covered anything. It would have cost eight thousand dollars. So, I’d be eighteen thousand dollars in before I got any payback which would have been at 80/20. I decided to forgo it and I paid cash. It turns out that paying cash got me an awesome discount. During the time I was going commando I spent about eight grand total. Incidentally, I had to spend the ten grand out of pocket in the same year. Thus, if I got sick in November, I’d need to spend all ten grand before December and then spend enough to get into the part where the insurance paid eighty percent. All along there was zero drug coverage.
A friend had similar coverage but a married policy. He did spend over the limit but found his wife, who didn’t get sick also had to spend her ten grand. The hilarious part is he got the insurance to “help with the cause.” (Stung by his own libtard.)
Why hasn’t Barack Obama or other responsible parties been hauled into court on the Obamacare? Until recently I wasn’t even aware we still had the Unaffordable Care Act. It was never affordable to my knowledge, from the very first. They are going after Donald Trump because some people don’t like him, but letting this abomination stand; it makes no sense at all.
Then there’s also Medicare Advantage. It’s “insurance” which is not the same as “coverage” . We’re at a point where roughly half our Medicare eligibles have Advantage.
As I sat in a crummy little town years ago, trying to get my career back (unsuccessful, it was an impossible problem) I listened to the sales pitch.
I was the only manager that asked the question: By my calculations, I would have been out nearly $17,000 before the insurance would pay a thing.
Yeah, that Obamacare is a great thing. Not.
The problem with being at a certain age in the two-thousands is that I (we?) were in a cohort of Baby Boomers that was very large. We were always competing against ourselves and, at that time, a modestly large cohort of younger people who were undercutting many of the older people at the same time the economy was going bad. This also hit at a time when, because of our age, we were more likely to need medical services. I was lucky in that at that time I only had a few kidney stones to wrestle with.
The current age of job seekers is lucky in that there are fewer of them and the last of the Boomers are retiring now. Also, even as many of the Boomer professions are disappearing, Zoomer-only professions are appearing because they learned to code.
Yes. I have observed too that since Obamacare, the quality of healthcare have deteriorated mightily!
Just remember, 0b0malamadingdong copied R0mneycare. Remember when they poked fun at Sarah Palin when she spoke about ‘DEATH PANELS?” AND how they cheated the Minnesota Senate election to get rid of Coleman for al frankenfraud?
When my dad was diagnosed with colon cancer (stage 2) , the doctor told him “You’ve lived a good life, get your affairs in order because at your advanced age (70) there’s nothing we can do. My dad responded with a question? So you’re giving me a death sentence? the doctor said the insurance wont cover it anymore. My dad then asked if his will was up to date. The doctor looked at him confused and stated that was personal but why would he ask. My dad smiled and said ‘In prison I’ll get the care I need without insurance and could live another 10-15 years and if the doctor was giving him a death sentence, he’s oblige by giving the doctor one first.’ The doctor scheduled the surgery and chemo for the next week. My father lived several more years until he was murdered by an overdose from an unqualified person administering iv meds.
Wow
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