Were they going up before the ACA was enacted? More or less? Does the health of other people matter to you? And did you ACTUALLY say that if your circumstances were different, they'd be different? Why don't you get divorced, quit your job, and cut off your leg, then?
That is really not much of a response, i would think a supporter of aca could come up with something better than, " if you don't like it cut off your leg." Neverthless, I will answer your questions.
Yes, my premiums were going up before, and they continue to go up. They were increasing at a lower rate before aca. So for me there is nothing affordable about it. I don't make it a practice of discussing healthcare with lots of people but from my small sample size everyone I have talked with has had decreased coverage, increased cost or lost their group plan All together. I could cite personal stories, some tragic, some ironically comical. But even that does not tell the whole story, because the full weight of the aca has not been lowered on us. More measures are to be implemented in 2017, after the election mind you, that will increase rates more and start taxing people who have group insurance. It was sold as affordable, you can keep your plan, and cutting costs. can you point to any evidence that any of those things happened? It has penalized people, families and companies who had insurance previously.
The health of other people does matter to me, and so does their ability to obtain healthcare. Like you, I care more about the people around me, because I know them. As I mentioned all of the people around have had changes in health care and none of them for the better. One friend had a small business of 10 or so employees, before aca he offered health insurance to his employees. Now he does not. His wife and kids are on Medicaid and he is on VA insurance. Another friend getting close to retirement and self employed had his premiums double. He will be working until he dies or is 70. A third friend was raising his daughters children, and was the legal guardian, after his company dumped the insurance he spent over 20 hours working through buearcracy he put the kids on Medicaid, and now pays more for a single plan for himself than he previously paid for a family. A fourth friend had worked with a company for twelve years, she had her hours cut from 32 hours per week(with insurance) to 19.5hours per week with no insurance. She couldn't afford 'affordable care' and didn't qualify for Medicaid because of some assets she inherited. So she will spend her assets until she is run into the ground poor then sign up for social programs. I care about these people, are you suggesting that strangers far away are more deserving of health care? What criteria did you use to determine that some people are more deserving of health care than others? Also, how do I know strangers in a far away city are not experiencing the same thing as my friends? Please share specific examples of people helped by aca.
Well, like you I rather like my leg and see no sense in cutting off a perfectly healthy limb in order to save the health of the remaining body. It seems rather ironic that you cite self mutalation as a solution to health care issues. It seems extreme to me, i cringe at the thought of your suggestions for solving overcrowded schools.
As for giving up a job or a family. Is that really what the aca was intended to do? To reduce the number of people working? How does that help individuals, communities or the nation? Doesn't that encourage people on the edge of poverty to stay in poverty rather than make efforts to get out. Speaking of poverty, it is well established that kids coming from a two parent homepage a higher likelyhood of succeeding in college. Does the ACA really want to decreasestudent success by encouraging broken homes? The USA is currently 12th in the world in college graduation rates. How far would you like graduation rates to drop before corrective action is taken?
