If you couldn't access gov't or public healthcare coverage and had to choose from private options?

[CreekDog]

(assuming you did not get and/or could not get health insurance through your employer)

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	I would choose a private healthcare plan through the Affordable Care Act Exchanges, conforming to those standards
	1 (50%)
	I would choose a private healthcare plan outside the Affordable Care Act Exchanges, even if it doesn't conform to ACA standards
	0 (0%)
	I would go without private healthcare coverage at all, even if I could afford it
	1 (50%)
	0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[B2G]

1. What is the correct answer? nt

[CreekDog]

2. i don't expect us to agree on that

[B2G]

3. Well I have no idea how to answer your poll

I would need to research costs, doctors in each network, forumlary restrictions, etc.

It might be within or external to the ACA. Too many variable to know.

[CreekDog]

5. do you think the coverage is going to be better when the insurance company can do what it wants?

or where the government requires them to cover all medically necessary conditions?

[B2G]

17. I have employer based healthcare

It's excellent. The coverage has nothing to do with where it is purchased. The ACA mandates coverage elements of private policies, as well as ACA provided and employer based.

What can be radically different is the provider network.

[leftstreet]

4. You're missing a poll option

You options for complying or not complying, even if the respondent 'can afford it'

What about those who'd like to comply but can't afford it?

Or did I miss something?

[CreekDog]

6. it's not a poll about compliance

if that was the question i wanted to ask, i would have asked that.

[leftstreet]

7. You say 'conform' I say 'comply'

Still you're leaving out the option for people who want access to ACA coverage but can't afford it

[CreekDog]

8. i didn't say anything about you or anyone else "conforming"

read it again.

[leftstreet]

9. Poll option for people who can't afford conforming policies?

where it at?

[CreekDog]

10. feel free to create your own poll with every option you can think of

[Skip Intro]

11. Now, this isn't one of your trap-polls where you do research on those who vote the "wrong" way

is it?

Like people have talked about:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4758521

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024744231#post67

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2165643

And even you admitted:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2165837

and nevermind that my thread was about a poster who voted in my gungeon poll where nobody should have voted for the first option --and one of the few that did, had NOT A SINGLE DU POST.

so i asked.

and if someone takes wingnut position in my poll (though this poll doesn't have a wingnut position) i just might talk about it.

[CreekDog]

14. nobody's trapping you here at Democratic Underground

[Skip Intro]

15. Non-answer = it is, then? n/t

[wandy]

12. Other: Yes this involves a tax increase BUT............................

You get sick. You go to a doctor.

[PowerToThePeople]

13. Unless my employer subsidized, I would go without. n/t

[hobbit709]

16. I've got over a year before Medicare kicks in

$952/mo SS don't go that far with a pre-existing condition.
If I didn't have VA I'd have been dead years ago.

[B2G]

18. This entire poll is invalid because

All plans must meet ACA standards, whether or not they are purchased through healthcare.gov.

So the only benefit in going through healthcare.gov is if you qualify for a subsidy or if the plan offers the same coverage but is less expensive (which it's too soon to tell yet). It's pretty much been proven that the network is narrower.