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Originally Posted by dc_dux
How is providing 30+ million currently uninsured working Americans with affordable and accessible PRIVATE health insurance not a material change?
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This is a material change alright. You can't expand the pool of people getting access to medical care by this many and not expect there to be some limitation on access to medical staff. It's not like current medical staff has 5-10% free time that they can see these extra people.
It's also change in that you can't increase the number of people covered by medical care without increasing total cost. I've yet to see a government program actually reduce the cost of anything.
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Originally Posted by dc_dux
Or those nearly 200 million with employer-based insurance..how is ending the exclusions for pre-existing conditions or imposing a limit on out-of-pocket expenses so that no one will face bankruptcy as a result of a medical crisis not a material change?
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This is also a material change. You can't increase the cost of medical care by eliminating exclusions for pre-existing conditions and eliminating caps and then just assume that insurance companies are going to make it up out of their profits.
One way or another, I expect my out of pocket costs to go up. Whether the Democrats take the honest route and raise taxes or use some subterfuge to make me pay for this.
This whole argument that this bill is better than no bill is just nonsense. If the Democrats can't come up with a reasonable bill, then there should not be any bill.