Re:Cannabis is legal in most America but federal laws block ...
by ransom1538 on Saturday December 24, 2022 @02:33PM
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"The national uninsured rate in the United States has reached an all-time low of 8%". Given this, I would say 92% US citizens don't care. Most people get insurance from work, family or are of the 120 million Medicare/Medicaid patients. If you are in another country reading our news - we would look like idiots, but, in reality 92% of the country is insured.
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Re:Cannabis is legal in most America but federal laws block ...
by quadrifoliate on Saturday December 24, 2022 @05:30PM
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> Given this, I would say 92% US citizens don't care.
That's what is so mind-boggling to me.
The US as a whole spends more on healthcare than any other OECD country, and the fact that most people in the electorate don't care about this is kind of depressing.
Re:Cannabis is legal in most America but federal laws block ...
by GeneralMayhem on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @07:17PM
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The ACA made life much, much better for people who are insured. Most of what the ACA did was tell insurance companies that they had to actually pay for things once in a while - e.g., getting rid of "preexisting condition" excuses - so that their product would be just a bit more predictable and less of a scam.