Posted by linkadge on November 12, 2016, at 20:04:56
In reply to Re: Obamacare and medicare Vs private + more, posted by baseball55 on November 12, 2016, at 19:23:47
>What you don't understand about the US health >care system is that all of the people buying >insurance on the exchanges didn't have ANY >insurance before. So they are not forgoing >
>treatments "once possible for them."I totally understand this.
What you don't understand is that many middle class people already had health insurance, and now they're paying more (for less coverage) in order to cover people who previously couldn't afford it, didn't qualify, or both.
Nothing is magical about it. Money is taken, and a portion is redistributed. Some people have better coverage, others have it much worse.
The 'net health' of Americans is not improving.
Fox news explains this well. Apparently CNN has not.
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