Reply #35: And that will save lives how, exactly?

[Milo_Bloom]

#1) Health INSURANCE isn't health care. There is absolutely 0 EVIDENCE than a single person died from lack of health INSURANCE.

#2) This bill creates the ILLUSION of giving care to those with pre-existing conditions, but the protections are pretty much meaningless, as there are too many loopholes to allow them not to actually give the protection.


Now, let's break it down. Why do people not have insurance? Because they cannot AFFORD it. So the idea is to make insurance plans affordable and in some cases, completely subsidized. You do realize these cheaper plans have higher out of pocket costs and deductibles, right? Do you actually believe these people who can't afford insurance and are supposedly dying due to lack of insurance are suddenly going to be able to afford the out of pocket costs associated with the plans? This is where they come up with this idiotic number of 20K people per year dying from lack of health insurance, because these are people with "treatable" conditions. However, these conditions (diabetes, hypertension, etc..) require out of pocket costs for medication and doctor's visits and that isn't going to change.

It doesn't save lives becuase it doesn't properly regulate what passes for proper health care and doesn't give an alternative to people who are unable to afford the out of pocket costs associated with the affordable plans.