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Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

3. No health bill is affordable for low-income people,

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Sat Apr 30, 2016, 08:20 AM

Apr 2016

certainly not even the 10% coinsurance on really good policies. Before we can significantly advance our fixes for this problem, though, we're going to need a smaller hard-right SCOTUS block and a more cooperative Congress. And of course a Democratic president.

Lose this one, and we'll be back to worrying that simply going to the doctor might document a "preexisting" condition and result in no insurance coverage at all. Or being unable to move or change jobs for fear of ending up uninsured.