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In reply to the discussion: Obama's second term: A productive six months. [View all]ProSense
(116,464 posts)21. They weren't "dismissed." I didn't address them.
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.
What? Who said anything about it was Obama's "right" to give?
He's saying health care is a right, and it takes legislation and action to make it so. It took legislation and action to establish Obamacare.
It took legislation and action create Medicare.
It will take legislation and action to make establish a single-payer system.
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I agree totally that what we have now is severely broken. Companies are nickel and diming you
Laura PourMeADrink
Aug 2013
#36
In 50 years he will be known as the guy who finally got health care reformed and on the right track
Pretzel_Warrior
Aug 2013
#3
To consummate bashers, Obama has NEVER had a good minute not less month. These people...
uponit7771
Aug 2013
#34