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The Unaffordable Health Care Act

Posted: Mar 17, 2017

I am now paying 3 times the amount I was paying for insurance premiums only 3 months ago. I'm making 1/3 of what I made 15 years ago. I am literally working for minimum wage. Something has to change or I'm joining the millions of people, including illegal immigrants and people who refuse to work, to get my free insurance, too (which I'm now paying for).

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Are you complaining about your employer's plan? - or your minimum wage?

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Don't understand your post.

Unaffordable.... - Pun

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All of the above AND upset that I'm working 8 (and sometimes 9 or 10) hours a day so I can afford insurance and pay for someone else's insurance who either just strolls in through the border and refuses to work or a citizen who refuses to work (for minimum wage if need be) instead of living off the government (you and me). As a very young child, my mother had to go and get government cheese and peanut butter literally shoved at her so she could feed us. It was humiliating for her. She also worked 8 hours a day on her feet waiting tables to try and make ends meet. I'm 60 years old at this point. I have found a new job in this industry and working at home so I can now take care of my mom. My beef is with the rest of those people who think they're either "too good" for minimum wage jobs or just plain want to play the system and get "stuff" for nothing that you and I are paying for. Believe me, I'm grateful for the help we received years ago, but there were no food stamps or subsidized housing or actual money handed to my mom....it was a little bit of food and that was it. There was an incentive to get off your butt and go get a job, ANY job to feed your family. They make it very easy for people to game the system now without much oversight and I'm sick of paying for other people's stuff.

Can you tell me what you are for? - sm

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1. Old system, people go to the emergency room for routine care, the very sick enter the health care system when they qualify for Medical Assistance and care is very expensive, and health insurance costs keep going up? Where people are afraid to start their own businesses or change jobs because they might have a lapse in their insurance? Where you can get cancer or have some other condition where you hit the lifetime cap where you lose your home, savings, and possibly die? And we, the people, get to pay for those high insurance company profits?

2. ObamaCare, where a basic minimum of insurance is guaranteed, more people than ever are covered under insurance and people with insurance are no longer having to declare bankruptcy. Keeping in mind that some very possible small fixes could be made (that the Republicans did away with) that would make the program even more successful? Also keeping in mind that the cost of insurance averaged over the years is less than before ObamaCare?

3. TrumpCare that would increase uninsured people by 24 million and other consequences (see consequences in #1) give huge tax cuts to the rich and increased insurance company/CEO profits, while cutting women's access to birth control and decreasing Medical Assistance for the poor and unfortunate?

4. Universal care. You are paying insurance premiums now--why not just change that to a single payer, no crazy insurance profits and no one has to worry about losing homes, savings, health, life.

Please pick one.

Congratulations - Blah, blah, blah

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Congratulations, you know the far left, socialist propaganda handbook by heart. Universal health care....are you serious? Have you ever read anything about Canada's health care system? Waiting months for an appointment for chemotherapy or surgery....I could go on. I have had cancer....I worked every single day through treatment and, call me crazy, but I never expected anyone to help pay for my situation. Life is hard. Get a job. Pay for your own stuff.

I actually have read about Canada - and other countries

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and read on many boards and most of them think we are pretty stupid for not having universal healthcare.

I do have a job and would be paying for my own health insurance with universal healthcare. My taxes would go up but so what, I would be guaranteed healthcare.

I know life is hard, I do work and I do pay for my own stuff.

I forgot option #5 - Thanks for reminding me

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5. I got mine and I do not give a hoot about you. Yes, I am a jerk.

4. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4 - Obvious answer

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Isn't it, except for those still believing the American Dream of capitalism benefitting THEM. Wake up and smell the coffee...there will be no pot if gold at this rate unless you are part of the 1%.

Not many jobs out there for 10 year olds. - You had it good

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I was 10 when my mother got cancer and died. She lay in the bedroom for almost 3 months in unbelievable pain where she could hardly move or talk. We lost our home from bankruptcy. I ended up getting a small SSI payment through my childhood and college years. The community basically came together and supported all those unmet needs when a 10-year-old girl does not have a mother who cares about her.

Since then I have spent most of my life working in occupations where I could help the poor. I know people benefit from Meals on Wheels. These are old people who can barely get to the door, but are independently living and not in the nursing home. I know of children who were helped by the WIC program whose mothers were basically juvenile delinquents on drugs, but their kids got better nutrition and had better mothers because they received some parenting education. I know of many unplanned pregnancies that did not happen because women were able to get confidential birth control counseling through Planned Parenthood programs. I know that the National Institute of Health has kept many horrible diseases from becoming epidemic and the research they do to learn more about diseases. I know that programs like Head Start and school lunch programs have helped disadvantaged kids become successful, productive and happy adults.

You need to look beyond your door into the real world.

Did you even read my post about - being a child

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and benefitting from what they used to call ADC (aid to dependent children)? My complaint isn't with 10-year-olds, obviously. I also help others who need help through my church and community. I'll try this one more time....I have a problem with people that REFUSE to work and live off the system....got it now?

Who are you to judge who is worthy and who isn't? - pfft

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Having a mother who is alive and care about you is about 100 times easier to live with than watching your mother die in pain. Have some compassion. You have no idea who is should have help and who shouldn't.

I am sorry...I can see I hit a raw nerve - Praying for you.....

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You have obviously done a good job of picking yourself up, working hard to get where you are today and doing good things for others and I applaud you for it, really. My prayers are sincere...I wish you all the best in life going forward.

Thank you. - sm

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We are all in need of prayer. I will pray your heart is softened towards others who may have obstacles that are not readily seen or understood.

Thank Obama - AGAIN for such incompetence - on every level

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Thanks Trump for starving old people and - hurting the poor

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and allowing companies to destroy our planet. Thanks for taking from the poor and giving to the rich. Thanks for proving on a daily basis how many lies you can tell.

Hahahhah - What a misrepresentation the lefties spin

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Can you prove those statements wrong? - I highly doubt it!

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Everything those statements say have happened or will be happening with him due to his ridiculous budget. He wants to build military so that he can take over the world and be emperor of all time.

Proof - Nn

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is something that isn't necessary or known how to be found by the right at all. It's unimportant to them. Why wouldn't it be, their leader just throws out little blurbs, accusations and insults and gets away with it and provides no proof of ANYTHING, so why should his followers. You know the game follow the leader, right? They all qualify for participation awards for just playing the game.

and here we have another description of Obama-bots - You nailed them!

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The IDONTCARE health plan being proposed - Will be SOO much better

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Just wait for your tax credit after you pay $20,000 in premiums. What, you say you can't afford to write that check. Well, get rid of your IPhone. Stop driving the Mercedes. Stop eating. Still can't...well work harder....for lots less in this field...what no degree, you mean you actually took this job seriously....lol...joke's on you

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