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dafremen Obamacare..the grand scam.

Why are insurance companies profitable? Simple. Because they take in more than they pay out. Why? Because after deductibles and co-pays, you end up paying for your OWN medical care AND their profits.

The average person spends less per year on medical care paid for out-of-pocket than they would on medical insurance and all of the related costs.

And now? You can be penalized by the government for not contributing to this gambling scheme.

And what a TWISTED gambling scheme it is. Basically, you're being asked to bet that you or one of your loved ones will suffer a major illness or injury. That's the ONLY way you'll ever get your money's worth in the end. The only way you'll ever get more out of the system than you put in. Nothing messed up about that.

"Yea give me 1200 a year on my son contracting leukemia please."

Basically obamacare doesn't help the poor. It screws them. It takes more money out of their pockets that they don't have to spend, or it penalizes them til they get in line and join the other gamblers. What ever happened to land of the free..and home of the brave?

Here's an example from YESTERDAY:

Tamiflu cost $129.95 for 10 pills. The inhaler cost $53 and my Tylenol 3s cost $12.95 for 30. The ambulance cost $233. The Urgent care visit cost $100. The emergency room visit another $200. Do the math: That's $728.90 for one trip. About 7.3 months of payments on the cheapest obamacare plan. And that plan has a $1000 deductible so the $728.90 would have been out of my pocket anyhow. And I would have been paying $100 a month.

So my total costs without medical insurance this year? About $1000. With medical insurance? About $2200.

Could it be any clearer that this isn't anything but insurance companies using the government as a CLUB to force people to slave away for their benefit?

Fuck obamacare.

We need a REAL national healthcare system. I walked into the General Hospital in Tijuana with severe food poisoning once. Total cost to me? $10 plus the cost of Buscapina at the pharmacy. And we call THEM the third world country. We're the savages.
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oren yup. 140104
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Grendel Single_payer nationalised system is VASTLY preferable...

ACA obamacare was the compromise solution dreamed up by the Heritage Foundation and was settled upon to keep the flat-earth, red-scare leftover mouthbreathers [teatards] from bleating about socialism...like anything endorsed by the black dude in the White House would ever actually retain their imprimatur once he agreed to it....
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dafremen How do I like a comment on blather? Dammit! We're so limited here. : ) 140106
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yes again Huge numbers of people are going to naturopaths. They actually work. 140107
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flowerock. I learned today that supposedly you don't actually pay anything, the government pays it as a tax credit... which. .. means you don't lose money... but I'm still trying to figure out how that works and there's only two days left to finish that process and I'll be busy at work, so guess I'm screwed again! Beyond fed up with this shit. 161215
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unhinged i get to pay higher taxes cause i still can't afford healthcare AND food because the housing market on the west coast is one of the cruelest aspects of the myth of the free market

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i still have to choose between eating and housing or healthcare and get to pay a fine for choosing alternative medicine. land of the free my ass
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Raina it is so fucking hilarious to me that some people thought the Affordable Care Act and 'Obamacare' were two different plans. Congress did away with 'both of them' in the middle of the night

I mean it's really EL OH EL hilarious.

You guys got what you voted for.
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Generic Whitesplaining Jacobin Dilletante "sorry your kid is gonna lose coverage and maybe die, but some of us had to teach that Debbie Whatsername Schulz a lesson y'know." 170112
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.flowerock If they did away with them then why am I still being told I have to sign up? I haven't yet... kind of procrastinating and hoping I can just pretend it doesn't exist, there's a way to get a tax exemption I think? Something like that. 170112
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unhinged right...it was all the people that supported bernie sanders who want america to join the rest of the civilized world and give everyone universal healthcare that are to blame for congressional republicans doing the bidding of their donors. get a clue anonymous asshole

even mother fucking goddamn DONALD TRUMP is telling them not to repeal this shit unless they have a viable alternative. if you want to blame anyone blame the voters who elect assholes like paul ryan . hate to break it to you but the white conservatives in wisconsin don't give a damn about teaching debbie wasserman shultz anything.they just want to make america white straight and christian again even if it means hurting themselves
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Faceless Bureaucrat number 765 If you sign up, just remember to file the 1099 with your tax return 170113