Re:Abolish the Cash Bail System
by ithkuil on Monday October 12, 2020 @01:43AM
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(non american here) so what was the problem ACA was designed to solve? I assume there must have been another group of people who are not poor enough but not middle class enough? Or something else? I care about your unpopular opinion since the popular ones are easier to find
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Re:Abolish the Cash Bail System
by dragonwriter on Monday October 12, 2020 @01:51AM
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The ACA addressed numerous issues, some of the more notable ones:
(1) it included a very significant expansion of Medicaid eligibility.
(2) for people just outside of Medicaid eligibility, it includes public subsidies for exchange-listed plans.
(3) it banned a number of practices which made insurance either inaccessible or illusory, most notably preexisting condition exclusions (and the associated practice of looking for an indicator of preexisting condition and using it as pretext to cancel the policy when someone was diagnosed with an expensive-to-care-for condition), but also cancel-and-refund practices, and lifetime benefit limits.