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this post was submitted on 15 Nov 2023
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I loved finding out how that worked. "Picking" between the extremely expensive insurance choices in the... What did they call it? The marketplace? Ahhh yes i remember watching the Democrats dismantle their own bill, and trying to use "Obama's great achievement". That was quite a lesson for my still-dem-voting self.
there were some good things that came out of it, like covering people til theyre 26 and better covereage of preventative care(my colonoscopies are covered) but yea, the rest of it was some bullshit. The marketplace was mostly a rip off and a super high deductible joke.
Obamacare saved my friend's life (when he was 25), but was a major factor in what killed him (ten years later).
shit, im sorry. im curious to what the factor is, but i also do not fault you for not elaborating.
Thanks. Ultimately it was a "death of despair," and much of that despair was either caused or exacerbated by the low quality of medical and mental health care that's available to the poor in this country, and the debt and unemployability that resulted from it. Other factors existed, but if we had universal health care he would still be alive today.
bourgeois social murder
Indeed.
At least we got the public option though.
Yeah the medicaid expansion and banning denial for "pre existing conditions" were good, everything else was a handout to insurance companies