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the_rowan posted...

meingott posted...

The millions of people who were either paying hundreds a month for shitty coverage or paying thousands a year in fines due to being self-employed won't mind the change.

Those millions of people would immediately go bankrupt if they actually had a major medical expense without Obamacare, you realize. The whole fucking point of insurance is that you're paying for protection against an unpredicted occurrence. The ACA established maximum out-of-pocket costs and removed lifetime benefit caps. Before, even if you had insurance, you were still probably fucked if you actually had a major medical expense.

Most of those people won't have a major medical expense, though, and that doesn't justify bankrupting them slowly over a period of years out of fear of a major medical expense. Insurance is not health care. It never was and it never will be. Democrats conflated the two because they were being ignorant. Now they're trying to save face with arguments like these, all while the middle class is becoming the lower class thanks to health insurance costs that are damn near a mortgage payment.
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meingott