can someone explain to me why the ACA is the devil?

[shirlene29]

I'm dead serious too


I don't understand all of it

I went looking around it yesterday and found better insurance than we currently have for less money (not a lot, like 40 bucks a month) than we're currently paying through employer ins.

 

[WoodyO]

Because people who earn more don't want to help cover the medical cost of people who have shitty insurance or no insurance.

 

[bigbassturd]

Because people who earn more don't want to help cover the medical cost of people who have shitty insurance or no insurance.

This.

It's not the responsibility of anyone else to foot the bill for your healthcare.

 

[digimon7068]

the insurance companies have no skin in the game...people using the marketplace buy their insurance for $xxx and the federal government picks up the rest of the tab...that's fucking bullshit...the recession claimed (among others) pontiac, saturn, mercury and lehman brothers (which at the time was like the oldest company in the u.s.) but, the insurance companies don't have to feel any pain from the new-world-order??? wtf sense does that make???

 

[billfred]

the insurance companies have no skin in the game...people using the marketplace buy their insurance for $xxx and the federal government picks up the rest of the tab...that's fucking bullshit...the recession claimed (among others) pontiac, saturn, mercury and lehman brothers (which at the time was like the oldest company in the u.s.) but, the insurance companies don't have to feel any pain from the new-world-order??? wtf sense does that make???

The only flaw with that logic is we are picking up their tab anyway by pay for all the uninsured medical bills. Anything they pay, is more than they have paid in the past.

 

[digimon7068]

The only flaw with that logic is we are picking up their tab anyway by pay for all the uninsured medical bills. Anything they pay, is more than they have paid in the past.

i want the friggin' insurance company to join the rest of us back down here on earth...how the hell did they become untouchable??

 

[bigbassturd]

Same way the oil companies did

 

[shirlene29]

lobbyists


I was looking at what the fed kickback was in relation to that premium (the one I dug around quotes on) and it was $324 a month
but the employer pays a little over a grand a month


theres seriously no way to have this all balance out?

the insurance was actually BETTER dental, eyecare and script coverage with a way wayyyyyy lower yrly payout max

Im pissed as hell because this is the same insurance company we had before the employer went shopping. Now we have UHC and I despise them

 

[smurf2]

Watch your mouth. I work for UHC

 

[shirlene29]

uh huh, they suck donkey balls