Whats Wrong With Idaho The Reddest and Whitest of All States is all in for Obamacare

[dream2020]

The ACA is not about healthcare, it is a mandate to buy health insurance. You are not guaranteed affordable healthcare because you have insurance.

Healthcare doesn't equal being mandated to buy an insurance policy by the federal government.

[Toyman at Jewel Lake]

I guess no one noticed...Obamacare is the LAW. Idahoans tend to be responsible, law abiding people. Is it really a surprise that they complied with a law, no matter how stupid, expensive or corrupt? Perhaps the better question is why did so many blue state residents chose to ignore the law?

[wildflower82]

Originally Posted by borregokid

Idaho the Tea Party state and home to a number of miltias..A state where no one will admit to being a Democrat signed up 76,000 enrollees to the ACA. The goal for Idaho was 40,000. Idaho almost doubled their goal. This was with heavy Republican opposition at many levels. Was this a Tea Party failure in Idaho? Or did people actually need health care and they just said the @@@@ to the Tea Party.

Idaho insurance exchange enrollment nearly doubles target - Spokesman.com - April 28, 2014

From your article notice 5 Indian Tribes are signing on.........Also, members of Idaho’s five Native American tribes can enroll at any time of the year.

This ACA is a law not an option.......remember! Not sure why you think there are no Democrats living in Idaho, have you ever been?

[Stizzel]

Originally Posted by d from birmingham

Funny how most people don't have the same doctor year after year. It is a myth that people will have the same doctor over a ten year period. Even with private insurance people often had a different doctor each year.

Only psychiatrists these days are the doctors you would have each time you go back for a check up.

Indeed. Any time someone switches an employer, they risk losing seeing their PCP or specialist, regardless of whether the physician is independent practice, part of a medical group or a hospital. Even if they don't switch employers, the employer they currently work at can switch plans any time they want and boom, you potentially lose seeing your doctor.

Originally Posted by dream2020

The ACA is not about healthcare, it is a mandate to buy health insurance. You are not guaranteed affordable healthcare because you have insurance.

Healthcare doesn't equal being mandated to buy an insurance policy by the federal government.

See the above. Pre ACA and post ACA, you were never guaranteed the right to continue seeing your doctor, even if you had insurance through your employer or on the individual market. To me, this is one of the biggest failures of the ACA. I wish they would have found a way to fixed this. I hate the idea that every year, I could potentially lose seeing my doctor, because of a change in insurance plans by my employer or because I changed employers.

[mwruckman]

Originally Posted by T-310

Since this all about socialist wealth redistribution disguised as health care, I would let the market dictate rates and keep government out of it.

Health care is not a right.

Neither is LIFE a right either then.