I Voted to Make America Great Again — Why Am I Feeling Cheated?

[Luis Gonzalez]

I Voted to Make America Great Again — Why Am I Feeling Cheated?
Rising costs, vanished subsidies, and a system that now punishes work, leaving Americans to pay more for less.

An Editorial Opinion From The Last Wire

I was a Never-Trumper.

Then I voted for him.

I believed the promises.


Now?


Premiums are exploding.

Coverage is collapsing.


One man got a $1 an hour raise. He lost his ability to afford insurance.


Another opened his renewal notice. $2,400 a month.


Some hospitals now want thousands upfront before they will even schedule surgery.


This isn’t politics.

It’s happening right now.


Is this what was promised?


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[DefiantMassRINO]

This is what the Romney-esque Pirate Equity and Vulture Capitial wing of the GOP wants.

The only way to make money in health care is to deny claims and engage in fraud.

Stewart Healthcare bought Mass Hospitals with their real estate.  Stewart organized a Real Estate Investment Trust for the real estate, but maintained a different coporpate entity to run the hospital. Stewart's investors would collect rent for the REIT from the hospital.  Whether or not the hospital was profitiable, the REIT owners would still get their rent.  The bled the hospital into bankruptcy to make money for the REIT owners.  The mafia called this "busting out the joint" - maxout a business's lines of credit, then burn down the place to collect insurance.

The US Sickcare System is suffering a slow motion collapse.  The Stewart Hospital in Leominster Mass closed, so, many Leominster emergency patients had to now use a hospital on Concord, MA.  My wife spent 24+ hours in the emergency room before a bed became available.  My eldery father-in-law spent 24+ hours in the emergency room hallway before a room was available.  One of my doctors started a concierge practice because the insurance company re-imbursements were too low and taking too long to be paid.

So, if you are wealthy or have status, you get VIP healthcare.  The rest of us have to fend for ourselves.

Both Dems and Repubs (the UniParty) are responsible for this.  We are responsible for re-electing the same useless d!ld0$ to political office.

Establishment Republicans have been waging an economic war of extermination against the American middle-class, from the top down.

Establishment Dems have been waging an economic war of extermination against the American middle-class, from the bottom up.

[Smokin Joe]

When the ACA passed, I had catastrophic care insurance. I was making six figures a year, and figured I'd risk the $5000/incident deductible, and just pay the small stuff out of pocket. About six months later, I was informed that my policy would be ending, and that no renewals would be offered because the policy did not comply with ACA requirements.

Okay. Health 'care' (insurance) was supposed to be more affordable, right?

So, perusing the exchange sites for my State, and looking specifically at the most affordable option (of the two plans offered), and it would cost 28,000/year for
'insurance' with a $14,000 deductible for the family (of 4).
I did the math on how much paying cash had cost in the last 5 years, and came up with less than the premiums for one year.
(Just a semantic reminder, this was the charge proposed (had I signed on) for health INSURANCE, not for health CARE.)
I decided to risk having to pay the fine (Roberts' "Tax") for not having the insurance.

I did not have health insurance after that until I was hauling pizzas during COVID--the company I was working for got me BCBS for $80 a paycheck (160/month).
We got the paperwork straight and got the rest of the family on Tribal Health. They are members of their particular band of Chippewa, after all.
After I left there, no insurance until Medicare, and that Part G supplement has gone up $1200/year over the last 18 months.

In that time, I have had some quality health care, but it was in an ER 2000 miles from home (within 30 miles of D.C.). Here, I hear a lot of horror stories, but have been fortunate so far.

But looking back, there was a massive reallocation of taxpayer funds to insurance companies in the name of subsidies. If the Act was to actually make health CARE affordable, why didn't it? Instead, it made for fewer insurance options, and for anyone actually making a decent living, it made insurance ridiculously expensive.

How much of that actually trickled down into health CARE, I don't pretend to know.

[Hoodat]

When the ACA passed, I had catastrophic care insurance. I was making six figures a year, and .  .  .

Five years of Trump, and we still have the (Un)ACA.

[Cyber Liberty]

Five years of Trump, and we still have the (Un)ACA.

Thank John McStain.  He, more than most others (next to John Roberts).

[Luis Gonzalez]

@DefiantMassRINO @Smokin Joe thanks for the great responses. I appreciate your input.

As supporters of the President, my household supported every one of his campaigns, and support him to this day, but…

My wife can only get ACA coverage and her monthly cost more than doubled overnight. My older son’s issues are documented in Promises Kept, a while he still supports Trump, there are some serious kinks in his MAGA armor there.

Our youngest moved to Texas right before the last election to take a job with FEMA. He’s uncertain of his future and delaying starting a family.

The President needs to turn his eyes back home now.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Five years of Trump, and we still have the (Un)ACA.

Why? It’s frustrating.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Thank John McStain.  He, more than most others (next to John Roberts).

His parting middle finger to the rest of us.

[Smokin Joe]

Five years of Trump, and we still have the (Un)ACA.

Remember when the GOP Congresscritters all ran on repealing the ACA? IIRC, McCain shut that down.

We coulda been a contender...