You are right..... We have let the Cons control the dialogue on this, which they have done by villifying the ACA with silliness like 'death panels' and 'rationing'. Those that actually have a clue what the ACA is, spend too much time debunking the idiocy, which acts to obfuscate the real issue: Why we have the ACA. So, by your request, les't list what the ACA actually does:
- Creates the Health Insurance Marketplace, a new way for individuals, families, and small businesses to get health coverage
- Requires insurance companies to cover people with pre-existing health conditions
- Holds insurance companies accountable for rate increases
- Requires insurance companies to devote 80-85% of premiums to benefit payments or rebate the difference to its customers
- Makes it illegal for health insurance companies to arbitrarily cancel your health insurance just because you get sick
- Covers young adults under 26
- Provides free preventive care
- Ends lifetime and yearly dollar limits on coverage of essential health benefits
- Guarantees your right to appeal should coverage be denied
- Through cost control and greater participation by the general public in preventative medicine, should reduce the deficit over the first 10 years by $114B and the next 10 years by $1T.
- Creates the Health Insurance Marketplace, a new way for individuals, families, and small businesses to get health coverage
Where's this place at? What's the secret handshake to get in this place? What page in the yellow pages is it shown on?
- Requires insurance companies to cover people with pre-existing health conditions
And people can enroll when? Oh that's right, there will be windows from Oct to Dec. So that's when you better get sick or no insurance for you. Why it's almost exactly like the wait times requited now for people with pre-existing conditions.
- Holds insurance companies accountable for rate increases
How? They already have demonstrated what they will do if required to lose money. They don't offer insurance.
- Requires insurance companies to devote 80-85% of premiums to benefit payments or rebate the difference to its customers
That a way government. Force companies out of business because they can't cover a bad year. Decreasing completion has what effect on cost? Hint, hint, your wallet gets lighter.
- Makes it illegal for health insurance companies to arbitrarily cancel your health insurance just because you get sick
And if they do, what? Oh, you'll have to get a lawyer just like now.
- Covers young adults under 26
Good thing too. Because of this law, many (an ever increasing many) of them won't be able to land a job, much less one that provides insurance. To bad for them when they turn 26, they still won't be able to land a good job because of this law.
- Provides free preventive care
Are there people out there that still believe something is free? The dumb remain dumb if so. Costs go up for everybody.
- Ends lifetime and yearly dollar limits on coverage of essential health benefits
And this effects everybody else's insurance cost how? Uh, I know the answer, do you?
- Guarantees your right to appeal should coverage be denied
What's changed here? Not much if anything. You get to go whine to a nameless government employee and hire your own lawyer.
- Through cost control and greater participation by the general public in preventative medicine, should reduce the deficit over the first 10 years by $114B and the next 10 years by $1T.
You put this in for laughs right? Should. LOL. LOL. LOL.......