I’ve always had private insurance.
lol the funny part is when the republicans were half heartedly trying to come up with a plan, McConnell was warning them not to call it “Trumpcare” Because “people would automatically object to it based on the name”
As has been noted, but the VA isn’t really the issue (or I should say is a separate issue) in the universal coverage debate. I was responding to another poster who wants to cite only the worst cases of health care coverage and use that to represent the future of any Democratic plan put forward. My point was that not even the VA is all doom and gloom.
I remember in the 90's when I started working right out of college that there were different plans available from my employer and one of them was called a "catastrophic" plan. It was no money out of pocket, the employer paid the premiums which were low, and it basically covered you for anything over $10,000.
...or you get something better somewhere else. Doing away with private insurance and adopting a government health system is essentially like everyone being forced to work for the same crappy company and actually "forced" to take the same crappy healthcare they offer you.
In Ca, Since Obama care, if you don't have insurance. You go to the ER. They give emergency medical if your to poor enough.Then permanent medical. I dont know what other states do this. Just because someone can't pay the ER , then hospital bills. It doesn't mean they don't care. It basically means the can't pay the bill.
You are correct that the ACA hasn't been in effect for 10 years. But the effects were beginning before it was in effect.
