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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts) Thu Mar 13, 2014, 01:13 PM Mar 2014

Are you invincible? Find out

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Are you invincible? Find out (Original Post) Playinghardball Mar 2014 OP

Two intelligent independents who I offered to help sign up for the ACA did not Zorra Mar 2014 #1

Zorra

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1. Two intelligent independents who I offered to help sign up for the ACA did not

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Thu Mar 13, 2014, 01:35 PM

Mar 2014

want to sign up, ostensibly because they could not afford it. I told them that they could call me anytime, and I would help them sign up.

In the past two months, both individuals suffered injuries for which they had to go to the ER, and are now undergoing subsequent expensive, relatively long term ongoing treatment for their injuries.

A) We need universal public healthcare. That is set in stone.

B) If you have a choice between buying a new car you can't afford, and getting health insurance, take the getting the health insurance option.

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