General Discussion

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if you are making just over a full-time minimum wage you cannot qualify for medicaid. Those people cannot afford it either. Or, say, a mom with 2 kids trying to live on $30k. Maybe the kids will still get care but she likely won't.

There are cracks that millions will fall through.

And what about assets? IIRC, that is considered in medicaid eligibility. Is that being waived? What if someone lives in an old family home worth $60k? Are they disqualified? I didn't see any mention of that in the KFF link.

We need single payer. We do not need more dependence on primarily for-profit insurance companies.

The ACA is essentially a neo-liberal policy. It embeds the health insurance companies even deeper into the fabric of our basic needs, using our tax dollars to do so.

Frankly, it's not good enough. I refuse to stop looking at it critically.

Expanding medicare to all would have ultimately been cheaper and easier.

The proof will be in the numbers, in 3 or 5 or 10 years, when we compare the US healthcare outcomes to other 'civilized' countries. The costs and the health and the 'universality' of this. We'll see.