Bankrupt

[Scuba]

[ProSense]

1. Yes, but

the most important thing is keeping junk policies in place.

Republican crocodile tears over lost insurance
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024046166

Bernie Sanders on junk insurance policies
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024037863

Hurricane Katrina, The Obamacare Rollout, And Allowing Privilege To Shape Our Politics
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024044297

[progressoid]

7. Apparently it is important.

The president allows insurance companies to extend health plans that were supposed to be banned.

[ProSense]

10. Yes,

it is to the people who want to keep the junk plans and Republicans:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024039493
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024033833

[progressoid]

14. So

since morons, insurance companies & Republicans want something, the administration should approve it?

[Demeter]

2. Yes I did know. And Obamacare Does NOTHING to Stop It.

and watch the magpies descend on this post in 5..4..3..

[SammyWinstonJack]

3. ...

MANDATED HEALTH INSURANCE from the same blood sucking leeches responsible for those bankruptcies.

[ProSense]

5. No, the

"MANDATED HEALTH INSURANCE from the same blood sucking leeches responsible for those bankruptcies."

...same "blood sucking leeches" that were able to exploit anti-Obamacare and anti-Obama sentiments to get people to declare they love bullshit private insurance that doesn't cover much. These "blood sucking leeches" have found a bunch of allies who are lauding the virtues of their junk plans as they ask: Why can't we keep the shitty plans from the "blood sucking leeches"?

[HereSince1628]

11. for people who need subsidies to buy policies that will continue for many

[rhett o rick]

21. Are you willing to discuss this or is this just a "drop a turd and run" post? nm

[ProSense]

4. "and watch the magpies descend on this post in 5..4..3.."

So you intentionally made a false statement to goad people to call you on it?

[hobbit709]

20. What was false about the magpies?

[woo me with science]

12. [phone]

[canoeist52]

6. Out of the four choices, Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum, none pays more than 90% of health costs.

In my book, that's not even catastrophic coverage for anyone that is middle income or lower, or the 99%.

http://www.medicoverage.com/health-insurance-blog/news/comparing-exchange-plans-bronze-silver-gold-platinum

We'll hold on to our 100% coverage policy through work as long as it lasts. (which probably isn't very long).

[spanone]

8. you'd think a free media in america would know this and point it out?

bwahahahahahahaaaaa

[Nye Bevan]

9. Ummm.... yes, I think they would.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/05/bankruptcy.medical.bills/

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100840148

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2009/06/medical-bankruptcies-a-data-update/

Pretty bad job if they were supposed to suppress this.

[Scuba]

16. Wow, three articles in only four years. Amazing they managed to squeeze Miley Cyrus in at all.

[Nye Bevan]

18. Want a couple more?

https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&hl=en&ei=cmuJUvrRA-flsASXyoHgDQ&q=62%25+medical+bankruptcies&oq=62%25+medical+bankruptcies&gs_l=mobile-gws-serp.12...0.0.0.44782.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0....0...1c..31.mobile-gws-serp..0.0.0.ZPcmt1IuNmg

[Scuba]

19. I want to see as many as I do on the web site glitch, since this is much more important.

[malaise]

13. And the profiteers of death and health problems have no intention of

giving up their 'capitalist right' to rip off the sick and dying.

[canoeist52]

15. Massachusetts Health Reform Hasn't Stopped Medical Bankruptcies: Harvard Study

https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/03/08-0

"The new study, which appears in today’s American Journal of Medicine, found that between early 2007 and mid-2009, the share of all Massachusetts bankruptcies with a medical cause went from 59.3 percent to 52.9 percent, a non-significant decrease of 6.4 percentage points. Because there was a sharp rise in total bankruptcies during that period, the actual number of medical bankruptcy filings in the state rose from 7,504 in 2007 to 10,093 in 2009."

[bhikkhu]

17. A study that shows the great recession had a larger influence than the health care law

...which doesn't really say much for how it will work going forward. More information needed.

In my case, health insurance should reduce my costs by 90% or so, and make it 90% or so less likely that a health issue or accident would lead to bankruptcy. I can say, lacking insurance, bankruptcy would have been almost certain before if something with costs over 4 or 5 thousand occurred. After January I should be able to absorb a 50k cost, shared between me and insurance.