Paying for high deductables, low benefits, and huge copays is not "insurance".

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16. If a person claims something is so that he/she knows to be false, then

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he/she is lying.

Can't spin it away. "You can keep your plan" was a lie. And when the employee mandate goes into effect next year, millions more will be hit by that lie. There's a reason they pushed that back until after the election.

Let's be honest here.

Btw, while I appreciate the effort to do something to help those uninsured, like I have been since 2009, I don't see how anything sold with a lie (or lies) is any kind of solution. There is a reason we shifted from talking about health care for all, to access to health care for all, to health insurance for all.

It was also stated that that costs for consumers would be lower, and the fact is that many people are paying more (and not necessarily for better insurance).

The ACA didn't help my situation at all, and probably made it worse. Individual policies for me in the private, individual market before the ACA were running under $200 mo. Now the lowest plan, even in the ACA exchange, for me is ~$350 mo, and that is with a crazy high deductible that must be met (yes, that's right) before any benefits kick in.

The ACA did NOT eliminate huge deductibles. It just isn't so.

And a lie is a lie. Sorry, that's what it is.