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In reply to the discussion: I think Jimmy Kimmel killed trumpuncare! [View all]Blue_true
(31,261 posts)One of the issues with the ACA is that really sick people should have gotten a seperate pool for them where they got care that they needed at a low rate, with tax dollars keeping their costs down.
The other pool would have been healthy people of all ages, with them grandfathered in once they were in, i.e. Could not be moved out into chronically ill pool if they developed an illness.
What happened before Obamacare is a LOT of very sick people went uninsured. When Obamacare passed, those people started getting healthcare for the first time, some did not know how to use it, like emergency rooms instead of PP with referrals.
Obamacare works best when people get on preventative medicine regimens, it is difficult for that to happen when millions of sick, previously uninsured people flood the system trying to get healthy.
Look, I feel for you, but your premium situation now is due to the fact that we had a really shitty healthcare system before Obamacare, a system that allowed millions of people to get sicker and sicker from things that could have been controlled and cheaper to treat.