Discrimination Against Millions of Our Fellow Americans with Pre-Existing Conditions End!

[Yavin4]

They will now be able to purchase life-saving health insurance, and that's a major cause for celebration.

I, like many here, wanted a single-payer system, but we live in a world where two sitting Dem. senators won't even attend the friggin Democratic national convention. So, I don't know how you're going to get them to vote for cloture on a single-payer bill of any kind.

Bottom line, pure single payer won't happen here for another generation or so. The ACA is the best that we can do in the short term.

Congrats to America.

[Lint Head]

1. That is a victory in itself.

[Romulox]

2. What about discrimination against people who can't afford insurance? nt

[Yavin4]

4. There Is No Discrimination. Just A Tax.

Even in a single-payer system, you would still have to pay a tax. Single payer <> free healthcare. You still pay for it, just like you pay for Medicare through your payroll taxes.

[still_one]

3. The bad news is for now you have to wait 6 months if you didn't have insurance, before you can be

insured for a pre-existing condition

The good news, unlike romney who says you should NEVER be insured if you don't already have insurance for a pre-existing condition, that goes out the door, and hopefully so does he