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Hugin

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28. It will be like the crap auto insurance all over the video machine.

Reply to etherealtruth (Reply #21)

Thu Jan 19, 2017, 02:38 AM

Jan 2017

Just enough to say one is insured enough to drive, but, if one ever needs to use it the provider is nowhere to be found. They always manage to cash the premium checks, though. Or another example is those sham home warranty programs.

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Price: Everyone Will Get To Keep Their Coverage Under GOP Health Care Plan [View all] DonViejo Jan 2017 OP

"move hopefully to greater choices and opportunities for them to gain the kind of coverage they want dalton99a Jan 2017 #1

This is code language. ananda Jan 2017 #16

It's not our plan (because we don't have a plan) groundloop Jan 2017 #2

Oh, sure Ligyron Jan 2017 #3

Note: no one is claiming that anyone will actually be able to access healthcare with these options etherealtruth Jan 2017 #21

It will be like the crap auto insurance all over the video machine. Hugin Jan 2017 #28

I'm telling you.. they're going to tweak the existing package and call it trumpcare nini Jan 2017 #4

And the irony is that Obama's name isn't on it...the damned rethugs nick-named it that. /nt sdfernando Jan 2017 #6

That's what I think too. They can't stand the thought of it being associated with Obama for decades. Hoyt Jan 2017 #10

Yes hibbing Jan 2017 #12

What's interesting is that Liberalagogo Jan 2017 #13

Where're the rabid government dismantlers in all this? Hortensis Jan 2017 #18

The ACA has been good for the health insurance industry. hunter Jan 2017 #19

They could have made a good dramatic Idiocracy 2 jmowreader Jan 2017 #22

So, if "people want to keep their healthcare/insurance?"... Wounded Bear Jan 2017 #5

dog-whistling to stupid Trump supporters Skittles Jan 2017 #25

But ... bucolic_frolic Jan 2017 #7

klat elbuod lla s'tI Jacob Boehme Jan 2017 #8

sure, it will still be called "insurance" NewJeffCT Jan 2017 #9

at Insurance Corporations full retail price. Sunlei Jan 2017 #11

There's no "their" there - in Price's words. Headline inaccurate! NRaleighLiberal Jan 2017 #14

I noticed that, too, and it makes a big difference. Tanuki Jan 2017 #17

Meaning: You may buy a piece of paper that says "insurance" n2doc Jan 2017 #15

If You Can Afford It,... Jimbo101 Jan 2017 #20

Since average real insurance cost is $850 a month ($10,000 a year), per person that won't go far. SharonAnn Jan 2017 #30

In other words BumRushDaShow Jan 2017 #23

does anyone think they have a clue weissmam Jan 2017 #24

Wtf!?!?!?!?!?! MontanaMama Jan 2017 #26

Price is a lying, corrupt criminal. roamer65 Jan 2017 #27

Just like how everyone has "access" to buying a yacht. briv1016 Jan 2017 #29

"Everyone Will Get To Keep Their Coverage"... regnaD kciN Jan 2017 #31