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In reply to the discussion: Re: ACA. Now what? [View all]SalviaBlue
(2,916 posts)They are there to serve their corporate donors.
Their job is to help insurance companies get richer.
We "came together" and allowed the Cons to weaken ACA when it was being written as law. It was necessary and we got some good things but we still have for profit healthcare.
Between 2010 and 2015 the top 70 healthcare insurance executives took in $9.8 Billion in personal income. That is where your premiums and deductibles are going.
We need to do away with this immoral system.
Cons will never fix anything. They are there to destroy our government. Their corporate donors don't want a functioning government that provides for the general welfare of the people of this country. They want to extract our wealth with as few regulations as possible.
You will be squeezed as long as they have the power to do it.
My situation is very much like yours. I don't like it, but if we did not have ACA our premiums would be higher, as would our deductibles. We could be dropped for pre-existing conditions. We would have caps on coverage. We would not have basic preventative care covered, etc. etc. etc.
If we had ACA in the decade prior to Obama's presidency my sister would probably be alive. She had no insurance, no money and cancer. She had to be treated (not treated) by the County Indigent Services. She did not get the treatment she needed in a timely manner. She died at 54.