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In reply to the discussion: Re: ACA. Now what? [View all]better
(884 posts)Nor am I trying to shut anyone up.
I've got a wife with epilepsy and a daughter with PTSD.
These issues are pretty important to me too.
But it being true that premiums are too high does not mean that it is true that the insurance companies or the ACA are the actual root cause of that fact. The problem of high premiums cannot be solved by addressing the ACA and/or the insurance companies, because neither are where the problem originates.
It's important for us to speak up about these problems, but it is of least equal importance for us to accurately recognize what the root cause of these problems is. What I'm saying, perhaps poorly, is that correctly naming the problem and focusing on it rather than the distractions from it is what we should do next.