Poll of the Week
Welcome to our Friday poll.
Today we would like to know your views on the success and benefits of Obamacare or the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).
It would be great if you could take part in the poll below.
If you have any comments please feel free to add them in the comments box below
I had pre Obamacare healthcare it decimated me financially to stay on medication after COBRA ran out. Finally got insurance PCIP 2 years ago anything is better than nothing
Why would you want to be uninsured? The medical community is the wealthiest next to Big Oil. If an uninsuredb person has to go to the hospital Social Security has to pay for that. ASo either way your taxes will increase. So what exactly is the problem with Obamacare?
As someone from another country my question would be what pre-Obamacare healthcare? There didn’t seem to be any unless you were employed, which is obviously stupid as what’s the first thing that happens when you have a serious illness – you can’t work! Perhaps the new scheme needs improvements, but at least someone’s trying, right?
if you want to repeal it, and waste more tax dollars, then let’s go for it. Then talk common sense, like a single payer plan, affordable, reliable, and great healthcare for all. Don’t believe it doesn’t work in other countries, because it does. Just talk to those who’ve lived there, or my sister in law while in France for emergency surgery, several specialists, she thought, oh lord what will this costs me! 220.00 American Dollars. okay, so again, tell me how that’s a bad thing? And just fyi, you know those elected officials right? Your head would spin like the exorcists movie if you knew what they paid! TRUST ME, I WORKED THAT DEPARTMENT!
For everyone on here who is voting against the Affordable Care Act, imagine this. You learn that you have RA, but because you are without insurance, because your employer does not provide it, you are unable to get all the tests and treatments to find out the extent of your problem, or to treat your problem. Therefore, you continue to force yourself to get up and get ready to go to work every day, without treatment, while you watch your joints and your health deteriorate every day. You do not make enough money on your job to buy insurance for yourself, but even if you did, they would not insure you because you have a pre-existing condition. While you are waiting and hoping for a different job to come along that does offer insurance, you watch as one by one, your toes become so deformed you can hardly stand to have a shoe on your foot. But, I guess none of that matters to any of you, because you all probably already have insurance. Now, thanks to President Obama, I will have insurance, too, but it is already too late. I have already had to leave the career I loved and worked so hard for, and the joint damage that has occurred cannot be repaired. At least I have the comfort of knowing that your dislike for the Affordable Care Act will not make it go away. It is here to stay!
sibhuskylover imagine that you have healthcare that is keeping you walking with severe RA when you couldn’t walk without the stupidly expensive medication that you must have every 6 weeks. Now imagine that you can not get that medication anymore because an unelected member of some committee in D.C. thinks you don’t need this medication because it is too expensive. I don’t disagree that the heathcare system is broken but this plan is not a good one. Read the actual document and you will realize its faults!
I hear you loud and clear. Knowing what those elected officials pay with their six figure incomes and they are against those who suffer? Sorry, I say, their job, part time, therefore not entitled to cheap affordable healthcare. As such, let them get minimum wages, see who really is for the people then right? Me? Unemployed. I pay for my every three month visit to get my medications for all my conditions, screwed back surgeries, left me with chronic pain, nerve damage, oh, yes, arthritis and for the heck of it, fibromyalgia as well. Yeah, I know what they pay, and it is a sin that they allow people to suffer! Go figure. Time to push the reset button! Or just start peaceful protests, that might not be so peacefully done.
sibhuskylover
To confine the provisions of “Obamacare” to preexisting conditions
alone, is to ignore the thousands of other provisions that: will
interfere with my medical treatment next year (I no longer use biologics
or steroids); authorizes a political appointee (currently Sebelius) to
make rules regarding the implementation by insurance companies and
medical facilities (aka DOCTORS); has closed down independent doctors’
offices and medical contractors like stay-at-home medical transcriptionists (aka work from home Moms) and forced them into
hospital employee systems or retirement; is directly responsible for the increase in the
cost of medical devices used by patients (like artificial knees,
braces, pacemakers, subcutaneous drug delivery systems, etc.) which
makes innovations less likely due to increase cost, and insurance
companies authorizing older and less expensive models that don’t work as
well; has some employers
with small-profit margins layoff their full-time workforce and hire them
back part-time so that they won’t have to pay for health insurance, and conceivably will be
laying off people with medical issues (good luck proving it) so that
premiums don’t go up for the employer – just to name a few of the
realities.
You have been duped. This tax, that you obviously
didn’t read, should have been called the “Insurance Corporation
Guaranteed Client Base” Act.