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originally posted by: ~Lucidity
originally posted by: beezzer
a reply to: carewemust
The worst part of all of this?
Everyone is mandated to have coverage under penalty if you don't.
Maybe because those who don't have coverafe cost those who do have it more?
And either way, you pay....someone pays.
The worst part to me is that insurance companies are still in the mix at all making profits off what should be non-profit and cost us all even more for something that is a fundamental thing for everyone.
originally posted by: beezzer
a reply to: carewemust
The worst part of all of this?
Everyone is mandated to have coverage under penalty if you don't.
originally posted by: butcherguy
The owner of the company that I work for came into my office yesterday and asked me if I had heard him scream upstairs earlier. I told him that I hadn't.
He said that he screamed because he had received the prices for next year's health insurance at our current coverage.
He says that it was very bad news and that he doesn't know what he is going to do. I didn't get any more info from him.
I have a pretty good idea of what is going to happen though.
I will be paying more, a lot more.
End result will be that I will not be going to any doctor in order to afford the debt that taking my children to the doctor will bring me.
originally posted by: carewemust
originally posted by: StoutBroux
I can't see the merger of Aetna, Cigna Humana, whatever, being a good thing. Just another giant monopoly.
I am just so angry about this.
The Obama Administration can stop the mergers from occurring if it wants to. They're in total control of approving or denying them, until they're out of office at the end of next year.
originally posted by: Gryphon66
Yep, and that brilliant idea was straight out of the Heritage Foundation and was part-and-parcel of every Republican "Healthcare Reform" plan before ACA.
There's a lot of reasons the ACA is an abomination, but the main one is that the Democrats were dumb enough to trust the Republicans.
originally posted by: xuenchen
originally posted by: Gryphon66
Yep, and that brilliant idea was straight out of the Heritage Foundation and was part-and-parcel of every Republican "Healthcare Reform" plan before ACA.
There's a lot of reasons the ACA is an abomination, but the main one is that the Democrats were dumb enough to trust the Republicans.
Even though the Rs in the 90s dumped the idea in Committee.
Yet, I also understand that increases are not purely derivative of the ACA; what was my point.