GGPViper wrote:
TheRobotLives wrote:
GGPViper wrote:
TheRobotLives wrote:
In America, citizens are free to buy their health insurance if they want it.
The real world rarely aligns itself neatly in accordance with one-liner statements.
The United States of America has the most expensive health care system in the entire world, so a lot of US citizens simply cannot afford to pay for health insurance out-of-pocket.
And prior to passage of the Affordable Care Act - the one you yourself so badly want to repeal - a lot of people simply *couldn't* buy health insurance at all because they were excluded from coverage by insurance companies due to pre-existing conditions.
"You can join a Medicare Advantage Plan even
if you have a Pre-existing condition "
https://www.medicare.gov/sign-up-change ... tage-plansThe problem you're discussing is when people don't want to pay for expensive medical insurance, and complain, "I can't afford it".
Medicare is not health care for poor people.
This is what Medicare covers:
Medicare wrote:
Medicare is the federal health insurance program for:
People who are 65 or older
Certain younger people with disabilities
People with End-Stage Renal Disease (permanent kidney failure requiring dialysis or a transplant, sometimes called ESRD)
Source (same website as in your link above):
https://www.medicare.gov/what-medicare- ... s-medicareMedicare (Medicare for All) is the single payer for poor people plan that the left is touting.
However, yes, I would of been better to cite Medicaid.
"Medicaid in the United States is a federal and state program that
helps with medical costs for some people with limited income and resources."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MedicaidMedicaid: Welcoming Americans with Pre-existing Conditions since 1965
https://ccf.georgetown.edu/2017/05/02/m ... ince-1965/
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29 Oct 2020, 10:52 am
