Dana7360
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- Aug 6, 2014
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We already know what Republicans want to replace Obamacare with. That would be nothing.
Remember, under the GOP and Bush, medical bills were the number one cause of bankruptcy. Republicans desperately want to return to those days of handing insurance companies money hand over fist.
We know what Republicans want to do with Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. Why on earth would any thinking person believe they would help middle class America or the poor now? What could possibly have changed? Only the GOP could applaud having no insurance. Democrats are smarter than that.
If the ACA is repealed the preexisting conditions clause returns.
I beat a very deadly form of breast cancer.
I will lose my insurance because I'm getting divorced. Insurance I've had for over 28 years. My only option is the ACA. Without it I will never be able to be covered by insurance again because I didn't do what the conservatives expect of people who get cancer, I didn't die quickly. Only because I was strong and beat that disease, I'll lose health coverage.
When the preexisting conditions clause returns I'll be kicked off my insurance and no insurance company will cover me.
For that reason alone, I will never vote for a republican or anyone who wants to bring that preexisting conditions clause back.
Thank you and I hope repeal never occurs, and you and all of those whose circumstances are similar benefit from the collective experiencs enjoy good health long into the future.
The Callous Conservative set, and that includes the Tea Party / Freedom (LOL) Caucus in the H. of Rep. doesn't care about you and others who have PE Conditions, or may have a disease which is expensive to treat and loop holes allow for a termination of coverage.
Not all evil doers fly airplanes into buildings! Some post on political messages boards, and thankfully have no power whatsoever.
Thank you very much.
There are millions of Americans just like me who had to go without health care until the ACA. They had the money to buy the insurance but no insurance company would sell them a policy.
It happened to a nearly life long friend. She lost her insurance in 2005 because of divorce. She had a benign cyst removed from one of her breasts in the 1980s so when she tried to buy insurance, no company would cover her. She went without insurance and nearly died. She ended up in the hospital for nearly a month because of diverticulitis. It was severe and she nearly died. I was the person who got her to a doctor and to the hospital. She ended up with a bill of over 200 thousand dollars. She's paying it off but she'll be paying it for years. In 2014 when the open enrollment for the ACA started she finally was able to buy insurance. If it's repealed she loses her insurance again.
Conservatives believe that the ACA is government health care. It's not. All it is, is very much needed regulations on insurance companies, making it more affordable for people and expanding medicaid.
The only federal government hospitals and health care we have is the active military and VA.