In the leftie's world of unreality.... "free riders" will also include anyone that has lived their life in such a way that they reach the golden age of 60.... since TrumpCare will punish and penalize those folks for having not died (getting older is hell, but certain people are trying to make it an even bigger hell legislatively). It's one thing to charge people that have lived longer more for life insurance. It's quite another to penalize them for healthcare insurance.
One thing's for certain. The aholes that are trying to push through this BS will never ever have to suffer the consequences of it in their own lives re: not getting or affording quality care. They made sure they covered themselves first and foremost, so screw everybody else. THAT needs to be brought to an end, dammit. These people need to be made to suffer along with everyone else from what they do and have done TO Americans.
So what's your solution? Bitching and moaning doesn't cut it. How would you provide for affordable health insurance? Don't wing it with slogans - I'd like to hear your specific ideas for providing health insurance to those with pre-existing conditions. ObamaCare was one way - but it forced the young and healthy to subsidize the old and sick. You okay with that? Single payer's another way - are you comfortable with the government supplanting the private insurance system? The ACHA approach - let private markets flourish with refundable tax credits to assist the old and poor, and latitude given to insurance companies to punish free riders with higher premiums - represent another.
But easy talk-radio stuff like tort reform and "selling policies across state lines" won't cut it either, because the hard-nut issue is what to do with folks who are already sick (pre-existing conditions).
I'm been proposing ideas for weeks now and get labeled an godless commie for my efforts. The GOP leadership in Congress has been crafting an incremental fix for the worst aspects of ObamaCare, and the nihilist conservatives are trying to sabotage it, and hand the Dems a crushing political victory.
Go ahead, XenaLee - can the easy rhetoric of envy and resentment, show your policy chops and start proposing real solutions that might work in the real world.