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EC

(12,287 posts)
Tue Dec 31, 2013, 11:48 AM Dec 2013

Why is everybody on the news talking about

tomorrow as seeing if the ACA is working right? They're saying when people find out if they can see their own doctor yada, yada, yada....but how many people go to the doctor or have appointments on New Year's day?

My daughter has employer insurance and for the last five years has had to change doctors, because the employer changed plans...so how many people still HAVE a regular doctor that they keep forever like in the old days? I don't see how this is any kind of testament as to how the ACA is working.

We should be judging the ACA by how many get coverage that didn't before and costs going down. By both of those standards the ACA is doing what it is supposed to be doing.

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Why is everybody on the news talking about (Original Post) EC Dec 2013 OP
Symbolic. My wife just faxed her old health insurance MineralMan Dec 2013 #1
me too.. n/t EC Dec 2013 #2
Will we see a rash of, "I called my doctor on the morning of the 1st and they were closed" stories? FSogol Dec 2013 #3

MineralMan

(146,312 posts)
1. Symbolic. My wife just faxed her old health insurance
Tue Dec 31, 2013, 11:54 AM
Dec 2013

company a letter cancelling that insurance. She paid $940 per month for it. With ACA, she has better coverage for half that now, starting at Midnight tonight. There is satisfaction to be had today.

FSogol

(45,487 posts)
3. Will we see a rash of, "I called my doctor on the morning of the 1st and they were closed" stories?
Tue Dec 31, 2013, 04:55 PM
Dec 2013

Thanks Obama

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