Indiana GOP request for ObamaCare horror stories goes wrong

[TygrBright]

Indiana GOP request for ObamaCare ‘horror stories’ goes wrong

Many of the people respondents, however, flooded them with stories about how the healthcare system positively affected their lives.

"My sister finally has access to affordable quality care and treatment for her diabetes," one person wrote, according to the news outlet.

"My father's small business was able to insure its employees for the first time ever. #thanksObama," another said.

Another person claimed that "the only horror in the story is that Republicans might take it away."

Gotta love it when their breathtaking stupidity submarines their own agenda.

amusedly,
Bright

[gratuitous]

1. The Affordable Care Act doesn't work perfectly

There are folks who are caught between competing eligibility and subsidy rates, but since the problems with the ACA have manifested themselves (and a lot of it is the refusal by Republican-controlled states to take the Medicaid expansion, which Republicans went all the way to the Supreme Court to make optional instead of mandatory), the Republicans who control Congress have refused to do anything.

But for people for whom the ACA works, it's saved their lives. Republicans fishing for horror stories should know that they're the Stephen King of these stories.

[FakeNoose]

2. I hope those stories can be published so everyone can see

No names or hometowns, of course, so as to preserve people's privacy.

But it would be good to illustrate the regular Americans who have been HELPED by the ACA program.
People need to understand this - it could be any of us in the same boat.
Sooner or later it will be us, if the program is allowed to continue.

Let's all work hard to save the ACA!

[ailsagirl]

3. "the only horror in the story is that Republicans might take it away."

Spot-on

[Astraea]

4. It's easy to cherry pick horror stories

in any system. They always pull this shit when it comes to national health systems. They never decry the horrors of the private insurance system or what it's like to not have any insurance at all.