It’s going to become like a 401k. They started as a great supplement to pensions, but replace all pensions with 401ks and suddenly most people are basically unable to retire. There was an interview recently with some of the people who originally championed 401ks and now regret it because they were never meant to be…
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What’s especially amazing about this attitude is that the state DIRECTLY BENEFITS from having healthcare as a nationalized right! As it stands now we’re hemorrhaging money because people can’t afford primary care so they let conditions get worse and worse until they hit a crisis point and have to go to an ER, which…
And those HSAs can expire! If you put your own money into your account to pay your own potential medical expenses and then nothing comes up, for a lot of these plans the money just goes to the HSA “provider” in exchange for absolutely nothing for the person who deposited it. It’s like Use or Lose leave time except…
It’s easy to be so desensitized to the plight of the average person that you’re perfectly willing to remove any protections or safety nets those people may have in exchange for currency. I’ll teach you how, in just a few simple steps!
“Republicans lack basic humanity”
I have seen examples of “lower-end” GOP voters, who wish to do away with “Obamacare” because they are already “insured under the Affordable Care Act through the exchange and it’s great.” They really have no clue that the ACA and OC are one and the same. This whole shit show is quite stunning from the bottom to the…
They’ll pray for us so it’s all good.
i think that has a lot to do with it. “good” things happen to “good” people and “bad” things happen to “bad” people. its def rooted in morality and judgement.
And they’re not the sexy kind of vampire, either! They just can’t get anything right, can they?
Exactly. I’d prefer single payer, I’d prefer it if my premium hadn’t gone up 25% this year, and I’d prefer it if I had vision and dental. BUT I’m thankful for the coverage that I do have with the ACA, it has been lifesaving.
The health insurance industry has a very effective plan in place to deal with this issue. Their plan is simple - everyone gets health insurance when they’re healthy. The minute they become unhealthy for anything except an extremely temporary thing, like say a broken arm or whatever, they kick them off insurance. …
It should be a clue to anyone that TONS of people signed up for ACA as soon as Trump won, even in states where he won.
It’s getting so hard not to call them fucking morons to their faces.
That was the GOP’s real complaint about “death panels”.
Apparently the big talk is replacing the ACA with Health Savings Plans. Health Savings Plans mean you put your own money into an account and that is what you have for healthcare. YOU paying for your healthcare. That means YOU pay for chemotherapy... YOU pay for all surgeries and hospitalization... YOU pay for all your…
I hope every single person who is happy about this bankrupts over medical bills and I hope it’s because of their children. I hope they have to decide whether to save their child or their house. I mean it.
What’s up with all of the middle of the night shenanigans?!
I’m so fucking angry. My parents were finally able to afford healthcare for the first time since we lost our house during the housing crisis. ACA obviously has problems, but the solution has never been snatching away healthcare from people who desparately need it.
The fact that it distracts from the other allegations is precisely why I think it happened.