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In reply to the discussion: Chomsky: The Majority of Today's Elected Democrats Are Moderate Republicans [View all]Gene Debs
(582 posts)stories are ending up. When you have insurance that's so affordable that you can finally afford it, 99 percent of the time the co-pays and, especially, the deductibles are so outrageously and unaffordably high that it renders the insurance unusable and therefore worthless. Obamacare was never anything more than a half-assed acknowledgment that something has to be done, but in such a way as to make sure to leave the insurance cartels running the health care system.
When I tried to get insurance through the ACA, guess what? We couldn't find a plan that i could afford. So much for affordable! So I got to pay a nice fine for being too broke to get with the plan. Luckily I was finally able to get insurance through my union. Obamacare was nothing but a nice sloppy wet kiss on the insurance industry's ass, and simply claiming that it's some kind of godsend doesn't change that.