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 (DIR) Post #B9clsUAL6mATRXUmcC by michael_w_busch@mastodon.online
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       @ashwin @futurebird Hi.  I rely upon the ACA healthcare coverage mandates to get the healthcare I need to be sure that I will not suddenly drop dead.You can critique ACA and advocate for universal healthcare without lying about what the law did or conflating it with GOP sabotage of it.(Pre-ACA, I could be denied health insurance for pre-existing conditions including "has cardiomyopathy" and "needed NICU when I was born.")
       
 (DIR) Post #B9clsUPEDQ4sBiSfp2 by ashwin@defcon.social
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       @michael_w_busch @futurebird There were some benefits to Obamacare, otherwise it would not have passed at all. Some people benefited, though for most others it made healthcare worse.People: "We want #UniversalHealthCoverage ! #healthcare is too expensive."Obama: "I will ensure that everyone has healthcare."People: "Hooray! Obama cares."Obama: "Now everyone is REQUIRED to buy health insurance."People: "And the government will pay for it, right?"Obama: "..."People: "... right?"Obama: "No, but your preexisting conditions will be covered."People: "Yay!!!"Obamacare subsidies were set to expire, even in the original plan. Obama handed his opponents a ticking time bomb before leaving office.Trump just didn't renew this crock of a plan, because he is too busy doing other evil shit, and doesn't give a damn.Trump is a daylight robber.Obama was a midnight thief.Poor people get clobbered,electing either, as chief.
       
 (DIR) Post #B9clsUftDTPB1OFynA by IngaLovinde@embracing.space
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       @ashwin @michael_w_busch @futurebird wait wasn't it a compromise with republicans because they blocked the actual universal healthcare in Senate or something like that?