The ACA gets worse each year

[SHRED]

We have been in the Covered California exchange for 5 years now.
The steady decline in what is covered coupled with the steady increase in out-of-pocket cost has been profound.

The sabotage of Obamacare (ACA) by Republicans has damaged the health and well being of millions.

We must vote these jackals out!

[democratisphere]

1. The rethugs are all about the Military Industrial Complex and Large Corporations.

The rethugs don't give a damn about the citizens of America; healthcare, access to nutritional food or even a person's overall well being.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

2. They've stabbed at the ACA since it was signed into law...

and have the audacity to complain that it's bleeding all over the carpet.

[SHRED]

3. Great analogy

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

4. Thanks!

[grantcart]

5. Not for me. Premium for my wife and me $ 5 a month.

[JCMach1]

21. I pay $4 for my silver plan and pay

0 to see a Primary Care Dr. And 0 for most prescriptions

Family of 3

[IronLionZion]

6. They will do the same to any single payer solution

I support a single payer plan like Medicare for all. But you best believe these jackals will stab Medicare and bleed it out til it dies or they are removed from office, whichever comes first.

[watoos]

9. Maybe better Google the Sequester,

from 2013 to 2022 I think, the Sequester cuts 2% in reimbursements to Medicare doctors, every year.

Guess who proposed the Sequester because Republicans wouldn't raise the debt ceiling because they cared about our national debt when a Democrat was president.

[IronLionZion]

14. I was furloughed that year during the shutdown

Yes, the Obama administration proposed the sequestration, but we all know the Republican house controls the budget and is the root cause of that problem.

[OhNo-Really]

11. My Medicare Physical Therapy is $40 a session.

I need 6-8 weeks of treatment, possibly more.

AARP United Health Care, Optimum 2. The lady waiting with me pays $50 a session, SelectMed Medicare

How many older people can afford an extra few hundred dollars a month for needed ohysical therapy.

So MEDICARE FOR ALL just sound wonderful enough for today's struggling families.

[SunSeeker]

7. The GOP striking out the mandate guarantees a slow death to the ACA.

The system is unsustainable if people are not required to carry insurance. Only the sick will buy on the exchanges, making coverage too expensive.

[Wounded Bear]

8. This...

It only works if everybody has to pay into the system.

Eventually, we'll be back to the old system where only the wealthy can afford health care.

[SHRED]

10. And also Rubio decimating the "risk corridor" funding

[yaesu]

12. Its like that all over the country, a slow decay caused by the plague called capitalism .nt

[djacq]

13. Making Matters Worse.

Virginia Resident and Retired Military.

2018, able to afford Blue Cross and Tricare. Blue Cross was practically free via my employer.

2019, have to pay monthly into Blue Cross and economically had to drop Tricare.

[sarabelle]

15. We need to do much more to inform the public about WHY the ACA is not as good as it should be.

We need to explain how the GOP is killing the ACA with a thousand cuts and that they do not care how many suffer. They just want it to fail because they want everything that Obama had anything to do with to fail. They are hateful.

[ToxMarz]

16. It seems to be different everywhere

My premiums have gone down the last 2 years in a row. This year my drug copay went from $15 to $30 for each refill (total increase = $60 /year). Much less than my premium went down. I only have one prescription though and it is available in generic. But I keep fearing each year I will get bad news or complete loss of insurance if the Repugs have their way.

[BigmanPigman]

17. I had to switch to a HMO instead of a PPO

and it screwed up my doctors and procedures (I have two painful diseases so that is NOT cool). I shouldn't complain since I had to pay $15,000 a year for insur before the ACA! And that was only because I was able to get it through a former employer who didn't pay any of it (school district). Now I wouldn't be able to get that "great deal" if the GOP insist on bankrupting and killing me.

Oh well, at least I will be like my dad who suddenly died on Fri (I am in shock and a basket case...worst thing I have ever experienced). He was 100% Dem, union and raised me to have real values...good man and great dad.

[Pepsidog]

18. I'm on wife's cobra and cost $2,390 a month family plan. Gotta change

[ffr]

19. A better title: GOP making the ACA worse every year.

With Russia's help, the Russians, I mean republicans are masters at making the no work.

Then again, what would you expect from a party who dedicates their whole existence on undermining the common good of government, in favor of making government an arm of greedy donors.

[MurrayDelph]

20. Four years ago

my wife and I had Bariatric surgery, while there was one insurer that would cover it under the ACA. A few months later, Marco Rubio successfully drove that non-profit insurer out of business.

Two years ago, my wife started developing problems that were finally determined to be complications of her surgery. The upshot is she needs another surgery to fix the complications (We're not talking some cheapo quack factory here; we're talking OHSU) that keep her from being able to eat consistently (Sometimes, she's fine. Sometimes it comes back painfully, even if it was the same food as the previous meal).

But since it's Bariatric, the insurance company won't cover it, even though we had chosen that company because they led us to believe they would cover it.

But no, despite the fact that we are paying over $1400/month for he insurance, we have to find $25k for her surgery (Which means mortgaging the house).

The additional pisser: if it had been me, it would have been covered, as I'm on Medicare (which she won't get for another 29 months)

[area51]

22. I'm so sorry.

We desperately need comprehensive Medicare for All.