Watching last minute signups on the news, one guy with his little girl said he was doing it for his child (getting insurance). Very moving.
Some people can gripe about the choice of having vs not as ones personal choice.
But how about the kids? Do they not deserve healthcare?
And again people... the ER is NOT healthcare.
Healthcare is when that little girl needs ongoing treatment and or medications.
Something that the un-insured WILL NOT and CAN NOT get thru the ER on an ongoing basis.
As I tried to explain to my sister who has no insurance after her husband suddenly died a year ago, and their employer insurance also ended that same day, I tell my sister Obamacare in itself IS NOT healthcare insurance.
Obama did not nor has not created his own branded insurance company.
Sorry Fox News...
Obamacare is like a book where Obamacare being the cover on that book.
Insurance providers are the meat of the story between the front and back cover.
The cover is not the story. What is inside between the cover would be the story.
Obamacare is simply the cover. Healthcare is the story inside.
Exchanges are insurance companies that have opted into a pool, of groups, where customers get insurance from the company just like before we had Obamacare.
The difference now is that Obamacare simply directs or points the customer to the possible insurance company provider options.
Some larger states have many providers included in those options.
Other smaller states may have only a few or maybe only one provider as a choice.
Then you have some republican controlled states where their ass-hole republican governors deny their citizens healthcare altogether. Simply because ass-hole is the republican way.
Again, Obamacare simply points the consumer to the pooled providers.
Obamacare in itself is not an insurance company.
Other than grouping providers into the pool of providers, Obamacare's only other function was to change some of the rules to eliminate the bad practices of insurance for profit i.e. the preexisting exclusion, the lifetime cap limit, and change how money is spent by providers i.e. providing actual healthcare vs money spent on advertisement.
THAT is Obamacare plain and simple.
Not exactly earth shattering considering we still live in this "healthcare for profit" system.
Obamacare simply pooled providers together as offering choice to the non-insured needing insurance, and those insured under junk policies with massive amounts of fine print that cover very little. And will drop the insured like a hot potato if and when serious illness should occur.
Thats all...
So again, why are republicans so hell bent against THAT?
And why are the billionaire's spending their billions to deceive those seeking insurance?
And why does Fox News contribute to this deception?
And why would anyone believe an individual would prefer NOT to have health insurance vs having insurance?
That thinking is not logical.
Try as republicans will, to deceive those non-insured that it is better to be un-insured than insured.
The real proof Obamacare was needed and is working are those jamming the website to sign up, and all the millions that have signed up, and the millions who have seen thru all the highly funded republican bull shit.
And millions have realized exactly that, seeing thru all the republican billion dollar funded BULL SHIT.
Now, lets just hope those millions of voters turn out this November to vote every one of them damn republicans back to that bullshit land they devolved from.
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