Reply #98: Yes, health care harms the working class when they still can't afford to use it. [View All]

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Many states will be offering little more than catastrophic health insurance because their states will allow this. Because of that, many working poor will be receiving checks (paid for by other working class people) to send to monopolies who then provide 'insurance' that covers little in the way of preventative treatment. If a doctor visit costs $150.00 and the insurance company pays half of that, it still leaves a $75.00 co-pay. Many will still not be able to see a physician except in the emergency room where the co-pay will be even higher leading to continued bankruptcies, continued write-offs and continued taxation of the working classes to pay for this. So now we get hit twice for services that still will never be used. Brilliant!