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Do you support the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)?

How do you feel about this solution to healthcare? Was it the right choice?

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silvereyes 8 Dec 16
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I am for it in that it's a step in the right direction. We need Medicare for All though...or something that provides care for all citizens regardless of income. A lot of the problems with the ACA have been related to the fact that they didn't include a public option. That being said, I have personally benefited from he expansion of Medicaid and am grateful for that. We can do better though for all people of this country though.

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Heck... I don't know... I suppose Its helping some. I just don't care for the penalty thing going on. I understand you have to apply for Obama care if you can't afford regular insurance... You lnow, I'm not really qualified to speak out on this.

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We need more than this, but this is better than what the GOP will leave us with.

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It's a step towards single payer healthcare so yes until we get single payer healthcare, absolutely!

SamL Level 7 Dec 16, 2017
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Making it a crime (even a misdominer) for not dealing with sleeze bag insurance companies, is insane. I think this was supposed to be a wind fall for them. I find it kind of funny that lots of them backed out when it didn't work. I mean really, is that the best we can do?

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Single payer system, non-for-profit hospitals, and total pharmaceutical over site.

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Oh, yeah, it was the right choice.

My great-grandfather died from what's believed to have been a brain tumor but he didn't get much care being a laborer in the early 1900s. My father-in-law was a carpenter who only got care for a mid-century, on-the-job foot injury that turned gangrenous after joining a union. It has to be an intentional disregard/disdain for the working class that's kept healthcare as a privilege for the elite. As for me, after working and paying into insurance plans for 25+ years, I've been dependent on an ACA plan since I was laid off a year ago - or at least on the butchered version Texas worked up - and it's been quite an education. Texas has the largest percentage of uninsured of any state.

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we need to put the lawmakers on the same Health care system that everybody else is using. If the lawmakers were on the public system we would get a better health-care program maybe ones that works for e everybody. Our leaders are not protecting the people they're supposed to protect.
DO YOUR JOB LAWMAKERS!!!!!

dc65 Level 7 Dec 16, 2017
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\Yes, but what we need even more is universal single payer healthcare -- like ALL other industrialized nations in the world!

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I am for the single payer system.The insurance company inclusion in this was strong armed in. THat part I do not like

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There are roughly 300,000,000 million people in our country there roughly 10,000,000 with nationalize health care does that average make sense?

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At the moment, it's the best thing we have. Any effort to 'fix' it will just make it worse. What we really need is single payer full coverage healthcare for all, and we need it soon because of this country's current demographic.

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Maybe, If it wasn't fought at every turn it might have been better.

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Personally I would prefer a single-payer/Medicare-for-all system, but what we have is better than before.

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