My husband and I are definitely senior citizens and he is currently going through a series of treatments for cancer. And we, on a limited fixed income, are experiencing the joys of Obamacare up close and personal.
Before Obamacare we paid a reasonable copay at the doctor's office and we paid it once for the initial visit and not for any follow up visits. Our hospital copay was $200 for inpatient care and the same as the doctor's visit for outpatient care.
Now that Obamacare has kicked in, our copay has increased by 75% and we have to pay it every time we see the doctor, the hospital copay has increased 200% and now applies to outpatient procedures too, several things that were once covered are no longer covered and our monthly premiums have increased 38%.
Both he and I have lost our primary care doctors and he lost his cancer doctor as all left the system rather than deal with Obamacare.
But by golly I have maternity coverage.
Isn't it just wonderful?
BULLSHIT, Obamacare has nothing to do with seniors, seniors use medicare. Nothing has changed with MY medicare and I'm sure none of those changes happened to your medicare either.
Dear
edthecynic and
Foxfyre
Arguing about whether or not Obama care works
comes across to me like arguing whether spiritual healing as practiced in Christianity works and reduces
costs and complications of health issues (as well as curing the cause of addiction, abuse etc etc)
Ed and Fox REGARDLESS what works how,
What the Constitutional opposition objects to is
why is Govt in charge of regulating this for citizens;
similar to if Christian spiritual healing were to required by Govt for all citizens to fund.
If you can imagine that scenario,
half the people would be arguing to separate this from Govt,
while the other half would be arguing "but it still works the same"
What has CHANGED with ACA is the FORCED RELATIONSHIP.
People are now REQUIRED to either buy insurance or have a growing percentage
of salary/income taken out by federal govt and paid into this system we didn't vote on.
That will continue to be the underlying issue.
The fact requirements were added that are MANDATORY.
That issue can't be resolved by sidetracking and addressing
"whether or not things work the same, different better or worse"
The issue is the RELATIONSHIP with citizens and govt,
and whether or not these programs are VOLUNTARY.
That's always been the underlying issue.
The other issues are symptoms or projections of the root conflict that is being avoided.