Reply #54: The "Affordable Care Act" PROMOTES [View All]

[a2liberal]

high deductible plans by putting higher taxes on more comprehensive plans. So, buy coverage you can barely afford to pay for, and then can't afford the deductibles to actually use, so you die anyway... only difference being that you also had to pay premiums for coverage you couldn't afford to use. And that still has very little regulation to prevent the insurers from coming up with bullshit reasons to not cover the treatment you need to survive even if you can afford the deductibles. Go watch Sicko for examples of all the people WITH insurance who die because of denied treatment. I still don't understand how any progressive can believe that strengthening the already corrupt insurance companies by forcing everyone to be a customer (more profits = even more lobbying power to keep the status quo) of a good idea. The whole concept of a healthcare system where some entity profits from denying people care is nonsensical. Doctors add value to the system. Hospitals add value to the system. Heck, you could even say competition among private drug companies adds value to the system. Private insurance add absolutely no value to the system, it only extracts wealth, and extracts more wealth by denying more care. And no people can't comparison shop because by the time you know your insurer sucks it's too late and you're dead.