Man Uses $1m Win To Finally Visit Doctor, Gets Terminal Cancer Diagnosis, Dies

[Aegon]

....yes? Lol. Am I allowed to really like certain things about it and not others?

I would think that when the "others" include thousands of people dying because they can't afford care - under the Affordable Care Act - that would overshadow whatever good you see in it.

Uh. It's not like these people weren't dying and all of a sudden the ACA caused their deaths. Prior to the law people were being denied health care for NEEDING HEALTH CARE. That's the most fucked up system of health care i can think of. Annual limits, lifetime limits, all being eliminated. MILLIONS of individuals insured when they previously could not afford to do so, through the elimination of pre existing conditions, the expansion of Medicaid, and the provision mandating employees with more than 50 employees must offer health insurance as well as the clause that allows young people to stay on their parents plan until 26. These are wildly popular, even with those who scream "SOCIALISM!!!"

The individual market hasn't been this accessible since the industry became uber-privitized in the 1940s. For the first time since then, the average person could now receive preventative care.* More people can actually afford their necessary prescription medication! That is PHENOMENAL. Now people are realizing just how many benefits they deserve, that they didn't know they could get. And everybody does DESERVE IT, Alpha. For being alive.

Do I need to go through the negatives? Of course it hit the employer based market badly at first. I oppose the HIIT tax, medical device tax and the Cadillac Tax. And although the mandate was the best way to enact the plan they created, I'm against the mandate idea in general. It shouldn't be necessary. It was here, though. I disagree with the premise of the bill. It's not a universal health care plan. It's a shotty attempt at appeasing cold hearted conservatives who don't think it's fair that people be able to afford to live, who for some reason are fine with 54% of bankruptcies resulting from medical debt as well as the fact that the US spends more on health care than any other nation while getting significantly less in return. THOSE stats are the result of our system. Where's the logic here? It's a desperate cling to Reaganism, to the age old (and ridiculous) idea that the government and the markets need to be at odds with one another in public and in bed with one another in private. We can never call what we have true capitalism while this reality bears true. Medical costs inhibit one's economic contribution (investments, housing market, etc), ability to work and overall quality of life. It's common sense to eliminate this problem, especially from the economic conservative's perspective. Let's do it how many before us have. No longer let the individual suffer from this cruel system. American conservatives are ALONE in opposing this, Alpha. In the whole goddamn world they're alone. It's just appalling.

*The influx of people receiving preventative care for the first time caused health care costs to jump in the short term, but obviously pays off in the long term.

EDIT: Hell, if a universal health care plan was pushed through Congress and implemented I'd probably be more likely to identify as Republican lol. Or at least a more moderate Dem. I just can't believe it's not a common sense bipartisan issue like it is throughout the rest of the West.