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The majority of Americans have reported that the Affordable Care Act has had little effect on their personal situations since Gallup first asked this question in early 2012. In more recent months, after the exchange-based enrollment opened up, Americans have gradually become more likely to indicate that the law has had an effect -- both positive and negative. The current 24% who say the law has hurt them is by one percentage point the highest measured, while the 14% who say the law has helped them is also within one point of being the highest measured on that dimension. In all instances, across seven different surveys, Americans have been at least marginally more likely to say the law has hurt them and their families than to say it has helped them.
I know a few wealthy people on Medicaid now......they love it!!!
Please keep Obamacare.
We need to means test all of these government programs. That includes Social Security, so long as younger people like me are given an opt out. It'll never happen though. The politicians don't trust people to run their own finances, especially when they can use entitlements to buy votes.
I know a few wealthy people on Medicaid now......they love it!!!
They need to be careful with their assets. The government can seize them to reimburse for total Medicaid benefits received after the recipient's death.
More evidence that this monstrosity needs to be repealed. Will the tone-deaf liberals ever get the message? Doubtful - they're too pigheaded.
I don't know. I try to be fair and balance while posting. Although I am right leaning.
I believe 80% of the USA population is unaffected by the ACA (either because they are covered by employer or government health care). The real battlefield is on the individual market and medicaid expansion.
What drives me crazy is when the left tries to minimize how many millions are being hurt by the ACA. The left tries to say 10 plus million "benefit" from the ACA (whether through subsidies or medicaid expansion or keeping young adults on parents plans).
Yet they minimize that a "few" or "small amount" of people are hurt by the ACA. If they told the truth and just flat out said, "we expect 1 million who had insurance to be priced out and another 2-4 million who currently are on the individual market to pay much much more than in 2013, often times with no subsidies). I'd be fine with that and work from there.
It's just that the left refuses to acknowledge this. And even the few on these boards who do acknowledge some people are paying more, think someone making 100K a year is well off and can afford those premiums.
News flash liberals. You are asking people who already had major comprehensive individual coverage to pay COBRA type of prices that don't necessary cover things those individuals want or need.
Why do you think so many Americans who leave their jobs don't pay for COBRA? Because of the price. That's why. And you don't care or realize that the exchange insurances are essentially COBRA pricing, sometimes even more than COBRA pricing. Which is crazy.
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