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In reply to the discussion: Here's my Covered California "Obamacare" rates...THANK YOU OBAMA!!! [View all]NoOneMan
(4,795 posts)21. To be honest, no.
Especially since those on Medicare can afford this the least. They are senior citizens without income many times!
Copays used to seem reasonable to me when I was a kid and it was $5. Now I see copays as just another way to keep the lessers out of the doctor office. Especially families with multiple kids who get sick multiple times throughout the year.
Copays are not reasonable. They are fucking nuts. They are about inducing self-rationing among the lower tiers of society. It is only within a sick society that we would deem this as permissible. It is only within such sickness would we tout a reform that institutionalized them.
So yeah, its possible I'm just not seeing things from the same context as anyone else
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Thank you, SHRED, for posting the actual numbers. I am also in California and see the same results.
NYC_SKP
Oct 2013
#1
That's like $8700 a year the Feds will spend on you. Do you pay that much in federal income tax?
dkf
Oct 2013
#5
In LA, you sometimes have to pay to park at your doctor's office. Strange don't you think?
JDPriestly
Oct 2013
#22
I could have *forced* an insurer to cover me since I had had continuous coverage
Kolesar
Oct 2013
#38