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Re:Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?) by MeinBlutIstBlau on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @12:41AM (#29077159)
Obamacare is utter garbage and costs ridiculous amounts of money. It impoverishes poor people far more than it helps. They should've provided a tax credit to people who pay in with it. Instead they just reduce AGI. What a joke. Honestly the best thing Trump did was make that no longer mandatory or face a penalty. It was a rammed through system democrats did just to pat themselves on the back. Quite literally one of the biggest slap in the faces to the working class in a long time.
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Re:Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?) by windthrown on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @02:29AM (#29077770)
It sounds like you are incredibly privileged to not have "pre-existing" or chronic medical conditions. For many, the ACA saved their lives and the lives of their loved ones even if the premiums were as universally outrageous as you claim.
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Re:Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?) by datavirtue on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @09:10AM (#29080629)
This. Little babies born with health issues used to be forced onto government healthcare, and parents had to reengineer thier life to qualify. Absolute savagery.
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Re:Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?) by MeinBlutIstBlau on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @11:35PM (#29090851)
I know it's super shitty to say this, but the true reality to life is...no they don't. It's a savage truth but genetically your produced a child with a major issue. To see their survival it's gonna cost something.
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Re:Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?) by MeinBlutIstBlau on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @11:36PM (#29090855)
I wouldn't say privileged, just normal seeing as people born with pre-existing conditions are the abnormality.
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Re:Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?) by DonHopkins on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @02:42AM (#29077837)
Sorry, but anti-health-care supremacists don't get to do everything in their power to sabotage, strangle, and corrupt something necessary, good, and sensible, just to backflip and whine that it's not perfect, not named after their cult leader, and "not hurting the people it needs to be".

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/8/18173678/tr...

Why is penalizing people you disagree with (or secretly agree with, but just hate) more important to you than saving lives?

If the net effect is saving lives, improving health, reducing poverty, battling pandemics, fighting quack medicine, and advancing science, then maybe the DO deserve to pat themselves on the back, huh?

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Re:Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?) by syngrog66 on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @01:22AM (#29077399)
not being denied for pre-existing conditions, or being dropped for hitting a lifetime limit, have been a huge lifesaver for many Americans. if one is fortunate to be young or healthy the ACA wont benefit as much. but its a huge improvement and peace of mind for the large percentage of folks it helps
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