Posted by my family physician
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Not a single section of the ACA is cited in that cute email from âyourâ obviously disgruntled âdoctorâ.
Again, [citation needed].
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Yep, that was exactly what I meant.
Your family physician is an OB/GYN on Rodeo Drive?
No, MY family physician posted that document written by the OB/GYN.
Thatâs funny, my family physician posted one written by a third party in their office supporting the ACA, so there you go.
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You need to stop listening to Breitbart et al. The IRS is not going to have information on how many sex partners you have.
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That document seems to go back to about a year ago.
It seems that he is referring to the âfree annual physicalâ or âfree health checkâ that was added to Medicare as part of the ACA â I havenât seen the details, but I think that there is a recommended set of questions from the NIH for the âhealth checkâ. (I think that it is just the same questions that have been generally recommended by them for years).
This doesnât do a good job of dissecting the physicianâs letter, but there isnât much to dissect.
Doctorâs Column: Nagging, Intrusive ObamaCare âIntentionallyâ Makes Access and Care Difficult | NewsBusters
OK. I am done. Enjoy your Government run healthcare. When the Republicans win the Presidency some day and they decide to have HHS raise the cost of abortions to say $10k, then come back and tell me how great it is to have our Government run healthcare. NOT what I want (I am pro-choice), but it is what these assholes will do some day if they can.
âAgree with me or the scary monsters will get you!â Got it, great argument dude.
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One of my favorite sports lately is referring people like our friend Odin here to the Heart ACT of â93, and then taking entirely too much pleasure in pointing out that it was the Heritage Foundation what thunk it up.
I think the Breitbart people are really concerned about keeping their butt sex on the down low.
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Wow, you REALLY donât understand the law at all, do you? ACA isnât government run health care, itâs all private insurance companies, or Medicare for certain needy folks. And anyway often abortions are paid out of pocket anyway since they only cost between $350 and $500 at Planned Parenthood.
Nevertheless, the ACA specifically says âno federal funds for abortionâ already, so you are creating straw man arguments here. OR you are being fed complete fabrications by some conservative website, things which can easily be checked with a little web searching. But hey, I guess itâs the rest of us that are âdrinking the kool-aidâ, not you, no sir, never you.
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if you donât trust the government, then elect people you trust
A lot of people trusted Obama in 2008 and have since come to the realization that they were had.
What I prefer is a government that has a limited capability to fuck with me even if the most corrupt assholes get elected. Which seems to be mostly what is getting elected these days.
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The problem is that under the Part-Time Employment Act of 2010 ACA, the young and healthy have the choice of (a) paying several grand a year for âinsuranceâ with a deductible of 30-40%, or (b) paying a $95 fine and then enrolling for insurance only after they are diagnosed with a serious illness.
Given the job market and the amount of college debt lots of those same folks have, which one do you think they are more likely to choose??
Where are you getting your numbers? You seem to be ignoring a lot of salient details. Quite importantly, the $95 fee only applies in 2014. The fee in 2015 will be $325 and in 2016 the fee will be $695 â not even counting the additional fees for having uninsured children.
Youâre also not taking into account the subsidies that would make coverage attractive to lower-income folks who are currently not insured.
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No, if you do without, you can sign up later, after you get sick. This is called âadverse selectionâ and is why the program will, in a few years, crash spectacularly.
Then whatâs the problem? Sounds like itâs going to take care of itself from your perspective.
The system we have now isnât working. Iâm willing to gamble that you might be wrong in order to see some incremental improvement. (Honestly I donât think itâs all that much of a gamble.)
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Well, then pick your poison. The ability for one man/family to stand up to big organizations is long gone. You pick a side: hope you can swim with the sharks and not get eaten, or see if you can band together with the other townsfolk, and trust that they wonât screw you. Your choice. Personally, Iâd rather do the latter than the former, but I donât buy into the âAmerican exceptionalismâ anymore, as everyone seems to think god-with-a-capital-G is on their side these days. Most other cultures have outgrown that. We havenât seemed to yet.
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Because the âpre-existing conditions mean I had to get no insurance and then declare bankruptcy, putting my family on the streetâ plan is better?
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