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Originally Posted by ijusluvit
You have identified some of the fundamental inequalities which have been part and parcel of health care in the most prosperous nation on earth.
My glass is half full - but I do get frustrated when I read posts from folks who are certain the Affordable Care Act is not an improvement.
Give it a chance. There will be tweaking. Just today the deadline for the small business insurance mandate was extended to 2015. I want to change insurance because my health situation has changed. I'm guaranteed I can do that. I'd woud have been turned down flat by every company in the past. Coverage will be extended to millions who otherwise end up in emergency rooms we pay for. The fraud investigation rules have changed and hundreds of millions have already been saved by catching crooks before they can raid the cookie jar. Etc, etc. etc.
Give it a chance.
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Thank you; I could not agree more!!!
You make three significant points that I have emphasized, the first and third in bold and the second underscored (just to differentiate them.
1. Look at the threads about people agonizing about which type of coverage to take; the new plan will eliminate the ability of insurance companies, who now control who gets covered and who doesn't, to reject someone based on past medical history.
2. I still find it hard to believe that there are those who object to nearly 50 million of our fellow citizens having easier access to health care than flooding our hospital's emergency rooms, which we all pay for over the long haul anyway.
3. The present level of fraud, which is outrageous, did not exist before the insurance industry controlled medical care. Some, yes, I'm sure, but nothing like now. My personal disappointment with the Affordable Health Care Act is that it did NOT eliminate the insurance industry from the equation, but that's the American system of lobbying.... But this act WILL be able to eliminate (hopefully) much of the fraud that is rampant in the present system.
Yes, I agree: Give it a chance!
P.S. When you wrote "I do get frustrated when I read posts from folks who are certain the Affordable Care Act is not an improvement," I suspect--though I could be wrong--and would be happy to be wrong--that these folks who object to the Affordable Health Care Act have reasons that are not directly related to health care itself....