So...we all know what happened today, and we all know that no matter where you stood on the healthcare issue, this Supreme Court ruling will be one of the most significant in our lifetime.
Which is why you cared so much. Which is why you fought so hard. I get it. I know exactly what it feels like to care so much about an issue that is literally life and death and to come up on the losing side. I have felt the pain and frustration that you feel today. Which is why I'd like to take this opportunity, on this historic day, when the wounds of such a decisive policy battle are still fresh, to reach out and........
KICK YOU WHEN YOU'RE DOWN!!!!!!!!! KICK KICK KICK KICK!!!!!! HOW'S IT FEEL????? TELL ME WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSE MOTHA FUCKAS!!!!!
In addittion.....
BWWWWWWAAAAAAAHAHHHAAAAHAHHAAAHHAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE PLAN THAT ORIGINATED WITH YOUR PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE WAS CONFIRMED AS CONSTITUTIONAL!!! DON'T LIKE IT? YOUR GUY STARTED IT!!!!!! BBBBBBWWWWWAAAAAHHHHAAAHHHHAAHHHHAAAAHHHAAAA!!!!!!!!!
Let's see.... where was I? Oh yes.....some crap about us both caring about our country and good people with good intentions on both sides of the issue.....blah blah blah.....
Except, when I hear you cheer for the death of the uninsured, I don't think your intentions are good.
Which makes this day just a little more special.
You lose.
Ha ha.
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Thank you. I didn't know exactly how to put it, but you really just summed it up there quite well. I hope all the conservatives on my fb see the link on my page to this and have a read.
I'm with you, DrugMonkey!!!
Though I'm not really gloating--I feel more weak with relief than anything else. I'll probably gloat tomorrow, once the blessed relief leaves me.
SWF here--grad student, Mom's a nurse, and I've been employed since I was 16 years old and financially independent since I was 19.
In my observation, a lot of people like to think of the uninsured as deadbeats or transients or leeches--or they say, like G.W.Bush, "You can just go to the emergency room!".
So, so wrong. I know that nothing will ever change their minds, but that is just so wrong.
I had to go to the ER because something got into my eye (not sure what), and my EYEBALL swelled up. It was terrifying. I looked like fucking Quasimodo. The Doc looked at me for 3 minutes, said I would be okay and there was nothing he could really do about it, and gave me some steroid eyedrops. Happily, he was right, and in due time, my eyeball returned to normal.
The cost of this ER visit..? $854. Hoboken, NJ.
I have a co-worker who is getting his Master's degree. He has two part-time jobs, pays his taxes, yadda yadda. He had to have his appendix out.
The operation had no complications and he was only in the hospital for 48 hours--maybe less. It went as well as one could hope for.
The bill...? $18,000. No, I am not shitting you.
He's trying to file for medical bankruptcy.
I wish to Christ I could afford a dentist, but I can't until I graduate and get a decent job. Now I just have to brush twice a day and floss and hope to God I'm not neglecting a problem that can be addressed before it requires a root canal.
It's really, really scary when one can't afford health care. It's also really, really scary when one requires health care, and cannot pay for it. I assure you, naysayers, it's not "free." The hospitals DO bill you. It goes on your record and credit rating. You cannot escape. The bills find you. You get calls. You can't just NOT PAY the debt. Everyone in medical debt knows this.
Why don't you ask an uninsured person with medical debt what it's like, instead of asking Rush Limbaugh or FOX news or your millionaire Republican senator..?
I will graduate and have decent health insurance and a living wage within a year (hope hope hope), but I will never forget what I have experienced and observed in my time as an American without health insurance.
Go to your local Craigslist and Google Cipro or Keflex. See the ads of the uninsured trying to get medicine because they can't afford to go to the doc for their UTIs. Some people won't want to believe it, but when I lived in the Southwest, I knew law-abiding people who went to Mexico to get ANTIBIOTICS.
I'm done...thank you, DrugMonkey.
Unless you are independently wealthy...Everyone is one medical disaster away from FINANCIAL disaster..you won't realize it until it happens..AND...it will turn mouthy "Free to be you and Me" types into raving socialists in mere minutes.
Loup Garrou
If I understand correctly, if you can't afford health care now the amount of tax/penalty is still gonna be less than paying for health care. So all the goverment is doing is getting more money. Plus, those that WILL get health insurance who don't have it now, it will really benefit the insurance companies.
Who wins? I'm retired and don't know exactly how this will effect me but I'm sure it will only be for the worse.
Ila,
The health care law won't effect you. I'm assuming you're retired and on medicare? If so, absolutely nothing will change.
The same is true with everyone else who currently has health coverage. Absolutely nothing changes for them. Change only happens for you if you currently don't have heath insurance.
If you're poor and uninsured, you'll be covered with an expansion of medicaid. Unless you live in one of the states run by pig-headed governors contemplating turning down the federal money being provided to fund this expansion. If so, you're out of luck until you can get some new people in office in your state.
If you're near poor and uninsured, you'll get help with the cost of acquiring a new policy.
If you're non-poor and uninsured, you'll be able to get a better deal on insurance because they will now be forced to compete for your business through insurance exchanges, one stop shopping places where you'll be able to see and compare policies to get the best deal.
Most people who don't have health insurance don't want to be uninsured, so the new law is much needed help in getting a piece of financial security they need.
The only people who will actually pay this tax are people who decide they really would rather go without health coverage. Almost no one. We know this plan won't be a money maker for the government based on the experience of the one place where Obamacare is now in effect. Massachusetts, where it was implemented by.....Mitt Romney. The current Republican nominee for president is responsible for the plan that became Obamacare. Don't take my word for it. Look it up.
You are right that the plan is a boon for the insurance companies. If I ran things it wouldn't be that way and we would have a single-payer for all system. I'm not the president though, and this law is a vast improvement over what we have now, which was unsustainable, so, yay...:)
Many, many folks have benefitted from the ACA for over a year now. Young adults (even if not in school) are able to stay on their parents insurance until age 26. If you are on Part D and in the donut hole, you pay 50% instead of some outrageous contract rate. By 2020, the donut hole will be gone. The penalty or "tax" is a small amount and there is no provision in the ACA to collect it. I believe this law does not go far enough. Just google "Free Clinics of America" or watch the PBS Frontline documentary about the lack of dental care in this country. Our lack of concern for the poor and uninsured in this country is shameful. These changes cannot come quickly enough.
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