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In reply to the discussion: PSA - If you opt out of the ACA next year [View all]BlindTiresias
(1,563 posts)45. Except it won't be
As I said, as appealing as the "change it later" argument is to someone nobody I have seen make that argument has established the means by which it is possible and, furthermore, how it is possible now with a captive market for insurance entities who are going to fight it twice as hard now.
No, the ACA as it was drafted was a terrible idea and likely permanently cemented the insurance companies as a central component of the American healthcare system. They will be impossible to get rid of now.
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so I would be better off with insurance that didn't cover preexisting conditions?
CreekDog
Nov 2014
#49
UHC/Single Payer is not one of the options offered or are you suggesting i drop insurance
CreekDog
Nov 2014
#54
I am not captive! I was on unemployment WITHOUT health insurance 2 yrs before that!
VanillaRhapsody
Nov 2014
#39
I have insurance and have compassion for those struggling with it during these times
scarystuffyo
Nov 2014
#52
who is struggling....if you make under $40 grand a year....you get subsidized...
VanillaRhapsody
Nov 2014
#53
do you make more than $40,000 a year? If not you get subsidized....I WAS at 91%
VanillaRhapsody
Nov 2014
#103
Yes you are...if you are claiming hardship and your salary doesn't match...THAT is breaking the law.
VanillaRhapsody
Nov 2014
#75
thank goodness....but you are NOT reporting the truth. I on the other hand who has first hand
VanillaRhapsody
Nov 2014
#104
OR, if you have been denied Medicaid coverage in States that did not expand under ACA
JCMach1
Nov 2014
#91
Oh really? Has he considered how unaffordable a major medical catastrophe will cost him..
VanillaRhapsody
Nov 2014
#109