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Old 12-02-2017, 11:45 AM
 
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if people want health insurance they can go buy it, nobody stopping them and plenty are selling it.
Most ignorant statement of the day away goes to............................ SKEDDY ! Congrats Skeddy

Sure if you work in a big company you are good. Rest of the people can go to hell..right Skeddy? After all "I GOT MINE" right?
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Old 12-02-2017, 11:47 AM
 
Location: London
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if people want health insurance they can go buy it, nobody stopping them and plenty are selling it.
And nobody will be able to stop the insurance from happily accepting premiums payments, and then when the person really needs to use the insurance, thank them for their loyal business and promptly deny/drop them.

Competition? Not if all the insurance companies act that way, which they will. They've got profits to make.
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Old 12-02-2017, 11:53 AM
 
Location: Minnesota
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I am ready to go back to the days where tens of millions have no health Insurance,
Tens of millions have no coverage now. ACA didn't solve the problem 100%.
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Old 12-02-2017, 11:58 AM
 
Location: San Francisco, CA
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Tens of millions have no coverage now. ACA didn't solve the problem 100%.
It reduced it to a far greater extent than anything Republicans ever offered.
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Old 12-02-2017, 12:05 PM
 
Location: Berwick, Penna.
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It reduced it to a far greater extent than anything Republicans ever offered.
And increased it for young, mostly-conservative working families still trying to play by the rules.
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Old 12-02-2017, 12:30 PM
 
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It reduced it to a far greater extent than anything Republicans ever offered.
That's setting the bar pretty low.
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Old 12-02-2017, 12:34 PM
 
Location: Brackenwood
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We've talked about this. GOP couldn't come up with a healthcare plan that didn't devastate coverage for millions (because the Democrats beat them to it by blowing up and pricing millions out of the health insurance market)
FIFY. Abc.
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Old 12-02-2017, 12:38 PM
 
Location: San Francisco, CA
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That's setting the bar pretty low.
Show me a viable "100%" solution to damn near anything.

The closest to 100% solution would be mandatory universal health insurance like they have in other first-world nation's with superior healthcare systems to ours, but that will never happen here.

By the way, even the Repub proposals had a penalty for not participating, it's just they put it in the hands of the insurers who get to price discriminate against you into perpetuity if your coverage lapses due to financial hardship. Tell me that wont be even worse punishment than the annual tax you paid under O-Care. At least that one wouldn't jack your rates up 20% over market for years.
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Old 12-02-2017, 12:44 PM
 
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Show me a viable "100%" solution to damn near anything.
The bar was set to barely clear the status quo. We should demand and expect better.

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The 100% solution would be mandatory universal health insurance like they have in other first-world nation's with superior healthcare systems to ours, but that will never happen here.
Because people either make excuses or refuse to vote for it.
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Old 12-02-2017, 12:44 PM
 
Location: NC
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This won’t get rid of Obamacare. The only thing they will accomplish by this is raising premiums. Brilliant move.
ACA caused my premium to go up almost 200% the last few years. NO, the rate of increase did not slow down
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