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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]Zorra
(27,670 posts)I'm simply telling the truth. As for myself, I prevailed, against all odds.
For many people, like me, negotiating the program was a seriously fucked up nightmare, to put it nicely. And I am far more educated, in more ways than just academia, than the general population of the US.
"Calling the company", before I was a verified cash cow for them, was a fruitless enterprise.
You want to know why so many people who seriously need insurance are not signing up for the ACA?
It's because they have no clue, on this formerly green earth, what a formulary is. Nada. Or why they should ask about formualries, and other such pharmaspeak blah blah blah.
The process, especially in red states like mine, has been scary and/or seemingly impossible for far too many people. I know, I sign up poor folks for Medicaid, or ACA plans income dictating, at every opportunity.
I'm not trying to blow the ACA to smithereens, I'm only recounting my experiences, in order that someone who should fix it will fix it.
Denying that something is kind of a mess won't fix the mess.
And the bottom line here is, the real mess originates with for profit health insurance corporations.
We need a simple public health care system, like Canada has.
I have many friends from Canada. I make it a point to ask them, "How do you like your healthcare system?"...
The common answer is "what's not to like, eh?
It's free."