the VA almost killed my husband. I made him get a job with a large corporation that provides health insurance. He was self employed until I started medical school and we got married. We have nothing good to say about the VA considering what we experienced.
Repeal ACA. Our copayments are astronomical, our Rx orders are expensive (my husband pays $70 copay) for bronchodilator and all in all, ACA screwed middle class folks and we arent even middle class!
I know too many people like us who were screwed by ACA and we take good care of ourselves - we arent obese, non smokers, etc, etc, etc
ACA is hurting all of us. kill it
You think like selfish young people: we are healthy, we don't need it, why do we have to pay for it? Because there is something, in any civilized nation, called social solidarity, where the young help the old, the healthy help the sick, the have mores those who have less. That's one difference between a nation and an association of selfish arseholes: a conscience.
Praise your gods that you are not obese, not a smoker, or drinker, or drug user, especially that you are relatively healthy. The latter can end in an instant, and then your life will change radically, especially in this country.
Btw, my copays are expensive, too, so I buy what I need from Costco and Walmart for much less. I can't remember the last time I used my insurance for meds. That's why I say we need to fix some basic things that are wrong with American healthcare. Everybody having compulsory basic health insurance is not one of those things. The main reason ACA is expensive is exactly that it was not compulsory enough, so that a lot of healthy young people opted not to buy into it. The solution is not to repeal ACA, it's to fix the parts that don't work well.
How do you think those famous European health insurance systems work? They are compulsory at basic level, so a lot of healthy people pay into them without needing them, hence the social solidarity component, like with Social Security or Medicare. That's the part that was not done well with ACA, allowing people to refuse health insurance. And it got fscked up by all the greedy middlemen from private insurance companies. We need a compulsory governmental single-payer basic health insurance system for essential care, a Medicare just for the basic stuff and for under 65 people, or a similar highly-regulated and limited-profit private one. Big companies don't play nice, so whoever trusts and doesn't properly regulate them (which should include breaking them up once they dominate a regional market) is in their pockets.
The way to fix healthcare is not by repealing one of the few steps we have made towards a more solidary system, but by fixing what we all know is wrong: malpractice, middlemen, and quasi-monopolies running the show.
