A friend of ours signed up for Obamacare...

[C Moon]

She drives 50 miles each way for part time work. Her mom is on welfare.

She signed up with ACA and is paying $1 a month. She's permitted 3 visits per year, and the co-pay is $60.
I don't know about emergency care, etc.

Although I feel this doesn't cover much, before ACA, there is NO WAY Blue Cross, Kaiser, etc would have offered her something like this.
Hopefully, she can improve her income and find better health care, but at least she now has something.

After hearing her story, I am so hoping the public option will one day make it's way to the US. Another wish: I don't know if ACA deals with dental, but I feel dental insurance is so important, and the two should not be separated—I've never understood why dental and medical are separate.

Happy 4th of July (made it with 2 minutes until midnight)!
...although, my pup isn't happy on the 4th of July

[C Moon]

2. +1

[4lbs]

3. For dental, it depends on the provider and plan level (bronze, silver, gold)

Some providers give several options, one with dental and one without. The monthly premium difference is anywhere from 5 to 20 dollars depending on the provider and level of coverage.

Although with the subsidies, this premium difference might be almost completely eliminated.

[Cosmocat]

4. Not in our lives, literally

this country is flat ridiculously stupid.

This was the first major health care reform in nearly half a century, and it was one SMALL step in the right direction, what republicans pushed for year to do with healthy care reform, and the president and party that passed it have been punished MERCILESSLY for it.

Which is a repeat of what happened after Bill and Hillary FAILED to pass it two decades early - they and the party got totally punished for it.

The person who is willing to suffer the consequences of having his/her presidency destroyed over it is very likely not alive at this point.

BTW - we went out for fireworks, came home and our dog literally tore the framing off a door and chewed out the drywall around it freaking over the fireworks.