For anyone who thinks ACA repeal won't affect them. Maybe think again...

[CousinIT]

FROM:

Link to tweet

[SamKnause]

1. I have repeatedly tried to explain this to people.

Some people voted out of anger and they will reap what they have sown.

It is unfortunate that so will the rest of us.

[CousinIT]

2. I know. I'm related to some of those idiots.

Andy Slavitt - whose twitter I got this from, used to run Medicare/Medicaid/ACA under Obama. He'd know better than anyone what repeal means. So I think the info is likely very accurate.

[Kittycow]

3. Thanks; I'm saving this for my family to see when I can rub it in.

Yeah that's petty but they voted for him, bitching about the tax part. I can't even look at their Facebook pages, they're so infuriating. But they're prolife prolife prolife! And it affects the entire immediate family!

[TrekLuver]

5. These people need to understand that I am pro life too...just because we are pro choice

doesn't mean we aren't pro life. we need to start calling them anti-choice instead of pro life.

[gordianot]

4. You probably need at least mastery of 8th grade reading comprehension to understand this list.

There are several categories for whom this information makes no difference. Those with financial resources to handle any illness without insurance (actually rare). Those who have no experience dealing with a major illness. Those who quite simply do not care who lives or dies as long as it is not them due to a complete lack of human empathy.

[mopinko]

6. i had a cadillac plan before the aca,

that still had some loopholes. aca fixed all that. plan is now mercedes.

the kind of data dives that the aca allowed will improve best practices for everyone.
hammering hospitals for re-admissions under medicare is another one that is gonna clean up a lot of sloppy practices.
electronic medical records is something i take for granted here in the big city. i cant imagine going w/o that.
free vaccines still matter when you are old. had too pay many of those out of pocket.

my kid, who has been a medical mystery since she was 9, at 23 is still racking up strange symptoms. even tho she is disabled and on medicaid, she is still on her dad's insurance. when that goes away, her co-pays are gonna take up her tiny ssi check and then some.
she sees a lot of specialists. right now, she can just make an appt w someone she needs to see. under medicaid, i'm thinkin getting a referral for the geneticist is gonna be tough.

lifetime limits and pre-existing conditions could very well kill her.

i still shake my head that all most people know about is the exchanges and the penalty. hello media.

[Scurrilous]

7. K & R

[Turn CO Blue]

8. Another one: each hospital will see their "debt bed" go up by millions, many will have to close.

Especially the rural hospitals. Perhaps hundreds of rural hospitals will close or some will be bought up by the Catholic Hospitals group. Boo hiss.

Rural/farmer voters easily gulped down the propaganda that they should hate Obamacare and for their misguided acceptance of such which influenced their vote, the consequences will be heavy and life-threatening -- they will probably lose the nearest hospital and the next nearest hospital and any emergency care and even long-term care will now be even farther away in a city.

[Johonny]

9. I blame the media and the Democrats for never informing American about the actual program

I mean how long has it been law and most Americans don't know half of what it did. There is no way Trump can renegotiate the ACA with this GOP congress and get out anything close to the coverage for Americans the ACA has. It is so obvious and yet the media all through the campaign simply ignored it.

[rickford66]

11. I sort of remember the Tea Party disrupting all the town hall meetings to explain the ACA

[ffr]

10. Terrified by the KGOP looting going on.

They are a death panel.