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Originally Posted by wittynickname
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The ACA is far from perfect, but 20 million people now have insurance that never had insurance before, people who were unable to get it due to health problems now have insurance. There are literally people who would have died before the ACA came into play, due to a lack of access to affordable healthcare. We need to fix healthcare in the US as it's still horribly broken, but pulling the rug out from millions of people is not the way to do it.
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Access to healthcare is treated as a privilege in the US and that's incredibly appalling to me. People will cling to their fricking firearms as a Human Right, but if you're accidentally shot by someone, who cares if you have any ability to treat it?
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Agree with all of what you've posted, just quoted relevant parts:
First paragraph: In a functioning democracy, where elected members are working towards the greater good of the country as a whole, the flaws of ACA as is exists should be discussed and solutions to help improve it should be recommended. Not what garbage that the GOP is pushing regarding repealing it. Oh and BTW, GOP being the party of "fiscal responsibility"... repealing ACA will cost $350 B (
http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/04/news...epeal-deficit/). Funny how the supposedly "patriotic" party decides to put party first rather than country. Yet another example to add to the pile that the GOP doesnt care about country, just their self interests.
Second paragraph: It absolutely boggles my mind that healthcare is treated as a privilege. The whole "bootstraps" mentality just ignores the fact that for a vast majority of poor people, upward mobility is a pipe dream. Yet, they're demonized as welfare queens and the idea that they somehow dont deserve it. I read an article on facebook about how many GoFundMe's start with the sentence "Usually I am not the one to ask for favors" or "My family always believed in hard work to get through tough times" etc. With a proper healthcare system (one that is not bogged down by threats of repealing), these people dont have to resort to such drastic measures that hit their sense of self worth. They should be able to go to work, and not have a fear that missed work due to them or their kids being sick, means lost wages. And they shouldnt fear that getting better after a major illness or cancer means financial ruin.