@stanleybmanly & @canidmajor Easy, guys. Jesus. After being a medical worker for 23 years, I too became a victim of this shitty system. I had a heart attack. I was offered corporate insurance on every succeeding job, but none of the policies would cover my one defect, a damaged heart. Nothing related to cardiac.
We’re on the same side here. I lived in a country for a decade, a democracy with a thriving economy, that admitted all their citizens—and immigrant non-citizens—into their national Single Payer universal health plan, so I know it works and doesn’t destroy the state economy. In return, the country gets a healthy, productive workforce that hangs in there so long that they’ve had to lower the retirement age to let the new generations in.
Once you’ve esperienced something like that, anything but Single Payer looks like a scam. And Single Payer is the last thing the present majority of our national lawmakers will consider.
So, yes. In my eyes, it is barely better than nothing, which is what we had. Nothing. But still a scam. This thing about fining people who don’t pay in is the most ridiculous part of it. Just take it out of our taxes like they do elsewhere. And give full coverage, no questions asked, from any available doctor.
The present admin wants to bring back pre-existing conditions. Fuck that. It’s a scam.