generic-user-1 said:
Egann said:
I didn't like him at first, went through a brief period of not hating him, and don't like him now.
Obamacare is the classic example of "no safety net is better than a badly thought out safety net." The discussions made me rethink healthcare being a bad idea. That said, mandating everyone buy healthcare is a very, very bad idea. I have heard two people who liked it, and they were already shelling out close to $100,000 a year in healtcare costs (so go figure what their annual income is). A doctor I know did the math; for me to get coverage using an Obamacare plan (ANY of them) that anyone not in an upper income bracket would go bankrupt.
America had the worst healthcare of the western world 8 years ago, and it has even worse healthcare now. |
dont you get medicare or aid or something like that if you dont have the money to get covered with a private plan?
|
Technically yes, except that a lot of the money to fund Obamacare was taken out of Medicare and Medicaid. The programs are very reluctant to take on new benefit-takers. The people who get this the worst are just barely above the very low income bracket, who don't get Medicaid, and who have to spend something absurd like 30% of their annual take-home pay on healthcare to see any benefits.
