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In reply to the discussion: Obama's second term: A productive six months. [View all]LWolf
(46,179 posts)1. Health care as a right is not the same as health insurance by mandate.
2. Insurance and care are not the same thing. Insurance doesn't guarantee care, if there is no money for the care you still have to pay for after paying the for-profit insurance company their premium.
3. I, and many others, may have a "right" to health care, but we aren't getting it.
4. When I do get health care, it's not because Obama gave me the right, which wasn't really his to give. It's not because the ACA has made it affordable, which it is not. It's because I go into debt to take care of urgent immediate necessity so that I don't miss any more work than I have to. Case in point: I'm still paying for the urgent care I got for an emergency condition last spring. It came to about $1200, which is $300 below the deductible. My new "year" starts October 1st, at which point my deductible goes back to being $1500, before I ever got done paying LAST year's deductible. That's not a right to care; that's a right to continuously pile up debt for conditions that can't be ignored or put off.
For some. Not for many. I'm one of many who will not benefit at all.