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Originally Posted by filtherton
Access is meaningless if costs are prohibitive. Most chronic medical conditions can't be treated solely through ERs, and I think everyone has heard stories about people dying from treatable diseases because they lacked the money to pay for the treatment.
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If you don't have insurance and you have medical problems beyond your means to pay there was always Medicare/Medicaid you could fall back on after you had expended your available cash. I've never personally known anyone to die from a preventable disease and I seriously doubt you have either. It isn't all that common and if someone has died from a preventable disease it's probably because they made a bad decision so please don't exaggerate it like people are dropping like flies because they can't afford insurance. I don't understand how you folks can be so thrilled to have hooked and crooked and gotten this bill passed. It does nothing for the middle class but raise rates in the short term and undoubtedly our taxes in the long run. It does absolutely nothing to help bring down costs. Essentially it will raise everyone's insurance rates and do nothing to reduce the actual high rates being charged by doctors and the hospitals. Making everyone purchase insurance without offering a public option is beyond asinine.