For people too young for actual retirement, the old system was a setup for eventual failure.
We continue to ship ever-more jobs to Asia, and so ever-more Americans are losing their jobs.
Every time that happens, if you are on an existing coverage program, if you end up out of the existing coverage go-forward for something you get treated by the existing coverer for, if you end up losing your job, you would LOSE COVERAGE FOR THAT THING.
Not because you stopped being covered. Because you changed insurers.
That is completely unfair, and that is what Obamacare covered for the first time.
Lots and lots of people ran aside of their existing coverage for this.
That was fixed, by Obamacare.
So while I believe Obamacare needs to be fixed, we should not go back to the mess we had before. It was even worse.
So to gain “portability,” which is a good thing, we have to take the $hit sandwich which is the rest of OCare is that it? Portability isn’t of any value if your premiums and deductibles are so high that you end up paying for everything yourself! I guess we were lucky. I always had employer-provided HC insurance until I retired, and we never had one problem with any of it. So as I see it, Obolacare isn’t a plus in any way, and I feel sorry for all those who have to contend with it. Fewer doctors, fewer available types of care and all that goes with it.
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