positive legacy of the first black president, no matter how many Americans have to be killed to do it.




I will sit here and tap my fingers and wait for citizens to become so fucking angry that something happens.

I'm not sure how big a deal that is.

It won't stop people from getting insurance if they want it. It will only allow people who don't want insurance to avoid the penalty.


I think most people want insurance and the penalty isn't their deciding factor.

If people can avoid it, only sick people sign up. Costs go up and the whole system collapses.

It is a socialist program - one for all all for one.

are now seeing what life might be like without the ACA. Still hopeful enough GOPers will feel pressured to improve health coverage for all, but we are dangerously close to edge right now.

About how the repubs proposed plans to tighten the enrollment periods in hopes of increasing the number of people covered would actually do just the opposite.

At the beginning if there was no penalty, many more healthy people and families would have hedged their bets and declined the insurance to "save" money upfront. Now that many of these people have seen the benefits of emergency coverage, preventative care, yearly physicals, contraception coverage, etc. for themselves, families, or others around them on the ACA, I would hope a majority would continue with the coverage. I was relying on the ACA being available to help bridge a gap I will have between my husband's retirement (our family is on his employee plan) and Medicare. I am sure I am not alone.
Killing the subsidies, another GOP idea, would be more likely to kill the ACA without even having to repeal it.

anyone could just not fairly pay into the system then just get insurance if they needed it.