Dear Sick People,

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Apparently you are not dealing with the ACA. Premium - double, deductible to be met - triple, RX not covered for my wife x 3 (last year $140/mo, this year $400/mo), provider access - cut in half. Participation - mandatory. 

Tell me, what should I like about the ACA? Why should I care?

-and now they know you'll pay that much.  The price isn't going to down if the ACA is repealed.  

Sure, sure, some cutrate company will provide a shittier service at a lower pricepoint, but looking at the above, is a shittier service what you need?  Personally, I don;t know that life and the maintenance thereof should be a for profit industry, but so long as it is we may as well approach the reality of it, rather than our best wishes for how it could be better within that context.

Return of free market and competition. Part of the problem is that we had limited companies to choose from and only one plan that would cover my wife's specialists physicians. Not much of a choice. Barring any hospitalization, it would have been less expensive to go with no insurance and pay out of pocket. I could buy cheap ass hospital only/catastrophic coverage but that would not satisfy the mandate.

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Apparently you are not dealing with the ACA. Premium - double, deductible to be met - triple, RX not covered for my wife x 3 (last year $140/mo, this year $400/mo), provider access - cut in half. Participation - mandatory. 

Tell me, what should I like about the ACA? Why should I care?

Do you think you will do better with the insurance companies on your own?

Remember.

http://articles.latimes.com/2007/nov/09/...fi-insure9

Health insurer tied bonuses to dropping sick policyholders

Insurance companies are not in business to provide health care.  They are in business to make money for the crooked corporate cocksuckers who run them.

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YES.

Edit: You do understand that health insurance had/has mandated loss ratios imposed, ever prior to the ACA? Their profit margin is/was regulated. It would be nice if you would not play the "crooked corporate" card all of the time. Is Brian your son?