What an bleep you are. Plenty of good folks lost their jobs in the last recession and have been able to acquire peace of mind by the ability to obtain health coverage under the ACA.
With what? Their good looks? No money. That means Medicaid. Let me tell you something about Medicaid. Although the rules vary from state to state, here, at least you aren't eligible unless you have under 10K in assets. You're 48, worked hard all your life, have equity in your home, two cars in the garage, a little investment portfolio and lose your job. The COBRA plan payments are way beyond what you can afford, even with a trickle of unemployment, which won't last, and barely pays the bills. In order to get Medicaid, though you have to either: Divorce and let your wife get it without assets. Divest yourself of your assets (and it is a Felony to 'dump' them to a trustworthy relative to hold for you at below market value), or do without. You may even have lost your job because of the ACA. If you acquired a diagnosis of an ongoing or even 'cured' ailment, now you have no job, no insurance, a 'preexisting condition' when you go to get health insurance again (yes the ACA
created a huge pool of folks in that category now, even though they had things under control). The ACA is a huge turd that splashed down in the healthcare punch bowl and splashing around the edges isn't going to make the punch potable again. Six percent of Americans were not covered before, now it is worse.
I understand the ACA's problems, and the need to fix it fundamentally.
Horse biscuits!
But these folks are as virtuous, if not more so, than you.
What folks? The 1.3 million who mostly acquired that nasty incurable "lifestyle-related" disease that made them uninsurable? Who at present are projected to have a trillion dollar doctor bill on the way over their lifetimes? Was this a favor to the guys who hang out over by the Iwo Jima Statue late at night, or the K-street crowd? It sure didn't do anything to help the people.
http://www.lifenews.com/2013/12/31/more-people-have-lost-insurance-under-obamacare-than-signed-up-for-it/http://nypost.com/2014/01/14/another-25-million-obamacare-victims/http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/212961/13-people-lost-health-insurance-every-person-daniel-greenfieldI personally lost my insurance when my carrier quit offering health policies, period, thanks to the ACA. Some wonderful program. On the exchanges, replacing that policy with one which has nearly 3X the deductible, higher co-pays, and premiums that are over 5X what I paid before, is not only not an option, but not going to happen. Being fined for not doing so is criminal.
And for you to deride them as "welfare dependent slaves"?
It wasn't the average working stiff who benefited, so suppose you dump some demographic data as to who is benefiting? Give sources, too.
