03-16-2017, 08:13 PM
20 million people, Maggot.
Emergency service is not a healthcare policy and doesn't include preventative care or ongoing treatments that help improve health and stave future health issues/costs.
With the Medicaid expansion portion of Obamacare, people who couldn't afford a healthcare insurance policy were able to do so with policies made available and premiums based on income through the exchange.
Among those 20 million, some were people who couldn't qualify for any healthcare policy, regardless of income, because they had pre-existing conditions and there were no requirements for insurance companies to serve them prior to Obamacare. There are a hell of a lot of cancer sufferers in this country. There are plenty of coal miners who couldn't get coverage for black lung disease before Obamacare too. Etc...
People aged 21 to 26 often didn't care (as you said) or couldn't afford a healthcare policy and were screwed when they needed one. Many of them became insured with Obamacare because the law allowed them to be covered on their parents' plan.
Did you really not know any of this when you continually objected to the concept?
Emergency service is not a healthcare policy and doesn't include preventative care or ongoing treatments that help improve health and stave future health issues/costs.
With the Medicaid expansion portion of Obamacare, people who couldn't afford a healthcare insurance policy were able to do so with policies made available and premiums based on income through the exchange.
Among those 20 million, some were people who couldn't qualify for any healthcare policy, regardless of income, because they had pre-existing conditions and there were no requirements for insurance companies to serve them prior to Obamacare. There are a hell of a lot of cancer sufferers in this country. There are plenty of coal miners who couldn't get coverage for black lung disease before Obamacare too. Etc...
People aged 21 to 26 often didn't care (as you said) or couldn't afford a healthcare policy and were screwed when they needed one. Many of them became insured with Obamacare because the law allowed them to be covered on their parents' plan.
Did you really not know any of this when you continually objected to the concept?