The ACA, Again

[filkertom]

I certainly don't expect a lot of my politically-right-leaning friends to read this exhaustive article in the Daily Kos about how the Republican party has fought against the Affordable Care Act with lies, disinformation, and more lies; I expect even fewer to think about it. But I thought it was worth it to at least have the information out here,

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[mimiheart]

I was doing the youtube 'how did I get here?' thing the other day, and watched a video of this woman say how Obamacare had somehow or another caused her to pay thousands of dollars more a month for her two chronically ill kids than she had been paying before. I was watching and all I could think was, your doing it wrong. She was saying that EVERY doctor she had spoken to, every nurse, every billing and insurance agent was saying what a horrible thing this was. That she had gone from paying about $100 a month for her sons' care to $5000 in the past two years, all because of Obamacare. It's ALL his fault.

Now, putting aside the unprofessionality of any doctor who would talk about politics with his patients, since I have become quite close with my son's doctors, who also has a severe medical condition, I can't for the life of me figure out what she's been doing for the last two years that she wasn't doing before that would have made the cost of medical care for her kids go UP like that. If they were on insurance, they should have stayed on insurance, they wouldn't have been kicked off. Pre-existing coverage for kids was mandated. She would have had to change her policy in order for that to have happened and then blamed it on ACA.

Now, there are other factors which could have been in play, jobs and whatnot, premiums going up, whatever, but all of that two years ago wasn't ACA, at least not directly. And if you have a chronically ill child, there are ALL sorts of government programs that will help. But the republicans keep defunding those.

[alverant]

ACA hasn't been implemented yet so how could it make someone pay more?

I think the video is a bunch of right-wing propaganda.

[mimiheart]

Parts of it have been implemented. For example, insurance companies can no longer say kids with pre-existing conditions can be excluded from coverage or charge an absurd rate for kids with pre-existing conditions. (Had lots of fun experiences with that one.)