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In reply to the discussion: Report: Many Americans Intend To Stay Without Health Insurance [View all]Proud Liberal Dem
(24,402 posts)67. and among people living in states where navigators are being harassed
Hell, anybody trying to educate people about the law or trying to promote it have been bullied and/or harassed.
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Yep. And most of their governors are the ones responsible for rejecting Medicaid expansion funds nt
ChisolmTrailDem
Mar 2014
#4
Yep, it sure does. Republicans are consistently known for not being the sharpest tools in
RKP5637
Mar 2014
#5
and among people living in states where navigators are being harassed
Proud Liberal Dem
Mar 2014
#67
Many Americans are often doomed no matter what one does to try to help them. I have
RKP5637
Mar 2014
#2
Even a single payer system would not cover absolutely positively everybody
bluestateguy
Mar 2014
#62
That group who aren't getting it becaus they 'oppose the ACA' should have to
sinkingfeeling
Mar 2014
#7
Urgent care clinics are not cheap and they want their money while you are there.
Thinkingabout
Mar 2014
#35
When both the cost of the penalty and the cost of the insurance are cost prohibitive
LiberalAndProud
Mar 2014
#11
All you have to do is not have a refund due and there's no way for the IRS to collect
Fumesucker
Mar 2014
#13
Srsly, unless insurance structures have been greatly altered under ACA,
LiberalAndProud
Mar 2014
#16
I won't relate my tale of woe. Knowing of real hardship, my lot is not.
LiberalAndProud
Mar 2014
#32
"I'm 62 and my subsidy of $475.00/yr pays all but $28.55 of my premium" - do you mean $475/mo?
progree
Mar 2014
#74
Perhaps, but no ACA-compliant private insurance has a total premium of only $503.55 / YEAR,
progree
Mar 2014
#79
The ACA is better than nothing, but it's still a piss-poor "accomplishment"
Lydia Leftcoast
Mar 2014
#63
I'm officially insured now. Saved about $500 a month in premiums. Thanks, Obama.
Comrade Grumpy
Mar 2014
#18
Many people going without insurance are in the states that refused the Medicaid dollars.
dem in texas
Mar 2014
#33
I pointed this out to my RW friends and they admitted they never thought of the social
Thinkingabout
Mar 2014
#36
Correct, because we are in an enrollment period now. That is coming to an end.
stevenleser
Mar 2014
#56
Since there is an entire political party, a cable network, and a RW echo chamber ...
11 Bravo
Mar 2014
#53
no surprise there since the MSM has been bashing almost everyday, and the koch brothers have been
lostincalifornia
Mar 2014
#76