Quote:1. You don't need health insurance? Are you superman? Come on man, it sounds like you got co-opted by the propaganda... everyone will eventually need insurance. Healthy people who shirk the buy in increase rates for the entire population. That's how health insurance works. It's also why a public option makes the most sense.

 

Never said that I don't need health insurance.  What I don't need is maternity coverage since my wife and I have stopped having children many years ago.  We don't need birth control coverage either.  Neither one of us uses drugs so we don't need that type of coverage either, yet it has to be included in a "government approved" policy.  It's also discouraged to do things the way that we have always done, that being paying cash for "routine" medical services out of a tax-free medical spending account and carrying a higher deductible policy for emergency cases.


2. While I'm sorry that your rates went up, there are other folks less fortunate than you whose rates went down. There are even other folks that finally have insurance that didn't before. My wife's parents, for instance.

 

Yet I have seen cases where the "less fortunate" around me are stuck paying for insurance that they can't afford.  I have also seen their hours cut at work because of the provisions of Obamacare.  Also the "insurance" that many of these people have is not accepted at many doctor's offices.  Many of the "less fortunate" people that I know are pretty much using medicaid.  Find doctors and/or dentists that accept that at their practice.  The reality is, they don't.




3. Prior to the aca, my insurance rates were increasing yearly at a large rate, and my coverage was decreasing. The aca has slowed down that, and my coverage has actually gone up.

 

Prior to Obamacare my insurance rates were fairly steady with only modest increases.  Since this dreadful law was passed, my rates have gone up way higher than they used to be.  I am by no means "wealthy" and consider myself middle class.




I don't think you're looking at the big picture.

 

Looking at the "big picture" for me is looking at how much more money that I have to put out because of a "government mandate".  Has Obamacare helped certain people?  Perhaps, but at this point I don't see it.




I still think Medicare for all, or a true public option is the best bet for the future. But unless you just woke up in 2010, prior to the aca, you'll remember how out of control the health care situation was. Both parties recognized that reform was needed.

 

Medicare for all or a public option.  That's a good one.  Perhaps it will be run much like the VA.  How has that worked out?  Who pays for this "medicare for all" or "public option"?




And let's not forget the aca was the solution first put forth by the heritage foundation...

 

Link please?