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The bottom line is that nothing is free. Nothing. If people don't pay for their own health care, then everyone else is paying for it. Whether in our premiums or in our taxes, we're still paying for it.
And everyone needs health care. I don't care how healthy you are. You are receiving health care when you are born. You benefit from health care when everyone else goes to the doctor and gets immunizations and medications to treat their conditions so that they stay healthy and don't spread communicable diseases to you.
Thus, we all need to pay for health care. Eventually we will get to universal health care. We've been working down that path for decades now, in fits and starts. A lot of people are afraid of the term 'universal', but no matter what you call it, we've been evolving that direction since the Great Depression. All the fighting about it just means the end result will cost us more money.
You should get coverage, but at a slightly higher rate. After all, you will likely cost the pool more than the average subscriber.
Thanks to ACA and the 26 y/o rule, my daughter was able first stay on our policy, and then get sensible coverage in CA. With her pre-existing no one would touch her.
If less people want to buy health insurance, then less people will have it. Who cares. Nobody gets hysterical when Ferrari sales are down.
Where did you get the idea that "less [sic] people want to buy health insurance"?
Rolling back the Medicaid expansion will create millions of uninsured people who WANT health insurance but can't afford it. (We can presume they want it because they actively signed up for free Medicaid.)
Not only that, but since repealing Obamacare without tax credits - as conservatives want - takes us back to the good old days when individual health insurance (as opposed to employers' group[ plans) were purchased with after-tax dollars, creating a tax inequity.
That is because Trump (and Ryan) correctly proposed a plan which included tax credits. The tax credits equalize the tax treatment of individually purchased health insurance and the employer-paid insurance that Most Favored Workers enjoy.
If less people want to buy health insurance, then less people will have it. Who cares. Nobody gets hysterical when Ferrari sales are down.
"Your location" seems to fit with Trump to the tee !!!!! he only cares to privatize everything, in the continual aim to try and set the government up to be a target for privitizations, so he can match the Russian Model of Individuals and Individual Groups to take control of function current handled and operated by the government.
People lost into the Avarice Driven Lusting for Money is consume with the activities of Greed, so in such aims, nothing matters except money, so that is the only point of reference your comment can stand upon.
Thanks to ACA and the 26 y/o rule, my daughter was able first stay on our policy, and then get sensible coverage in CA. With her pre-existing no one would touch her.
No way I could get coverage in the individual marketplace. I work for a corporation. That simple.
Rolling back the Medicaid expansion will create millions of uninsured people who WANT health insurance but can't afford it. (We can presume they want it because they actively signed up for free Medicaid.)
I will take 50 lbs. of free turnips. I will find somebody who will eat them.
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