I had no idea the ACA had besotted groupies who tend to grow scary when anybody says anything even slightly critical of their idol.
See the comment thread here and observe the terrified and apologetic folks who provoke the ire of the groupies.
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There’s a lot of noise and not much light.
People can throw around statistics all they want, but they forget that 1) most people, even the ones who understand statistics rely on anecdata from people they know, and 2)most people aren’t going to bother with the distinctions of who is responsible for what part of Obamacare sucking and 3)dismissing part of a horror story as status-quo pre ACA is not an argument for how great the ACA is now.
People are still going to hold on to their jobs with insurance with their fingernails, because the open market is still the worst.
I think this fervid defense is “If I don’t defend this, then someone else worse will come in and make things worse, and nobody can have nice things ever.” It’s reac
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…It’s reactionary.
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Exactly. Pointing out the defects of Obamacare does not equal dismissing the need for a more accessible healthcare. I’m personally in favor of state-sponsored healthcare system for everybody, like in Canada. But this doesn’t mean I don’t welcome ACA as an improvement on what there was before.
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I won’t attempt to deceive you with a fervid defence of the NHS as compared to American health care coverage — it’s not quite all that.
Just as in the US, you still have to buy separate travel cover, and there are many things where you’re simply better off with supplemental or private health care cover. I can expect at least a three hour wait if I go to an A&E/MIU or even worse on Sundays, and you can’t get into some surgeries anymore because they’re closed to new patients.
However, the US is uniquely damaged from my perspective as being the only country in the world that forces a trebling of my monthly premiums for travel cover. (This is through a well-known global health cover provider that can insure people even in war zones, which leads me to regard America as a “health care economic war zone”.)
So from an outside view, I would think it would be difficult to defend that which is horribly broken simply based on costs alone …
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I have the best insurance plan one can have in this country, so I can’t complain. But my husband is with a private company, and his insurance is quite deficient. Even though it’s considered pretty chic by the overall standards of what’s available around the country.
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