Insidb on 11 January 2016
| Azuren said: On topic: Obamacare made it illegal for me to not have health-care. Which means I HAVE to pay for something that I've used ONCE IN EIGHT YEARS. This was supposed to lower the cost of Healthcare since there would be a bunch of healthy schmucks like me not cashing in, but instead prices have gone up. To top it off, Obamacare's insurance rates are absolutely insulting, with some co-pays as high as $2000. So he made it illegal not to have something that only impacts me directly and that I rarely ever need, then instead of simply regulating Healthcare like he should have, he allowed the prices to become obscene. He violated my right to not be insured over something I have no choice about (being alive), and then allowed a bunch of corporations runs by total scumbags to rob me. Oh, but he legalized gay marriage. Champion of liberty, just as long as that liberty doesn't have anything to do with health insurance. |
It's real shame that the ACA morphed from a public service into a pissing contest, with the removal of the public option, constant defunding attempts, and attack ads. I got abused by insurance companies from 2011-2015 (jaw tumors, spinal surgery), so I have a lot of firsthand experience with how consumer-oriented they very much are not. When I saw the ACA, it was intially a MUCH better proposition than private offerings, but then it got hacked up, chewed up, spit out, and ratified. It never seemed fair to me that our taxes subsidized all hospital visits for the uninsured, so making them pay a tax to carry themselves was reasonable.
