Originally Posted by MK Ultra

Kane, Dyna Mo you guys have had some bad luck in your lives and I sympathize, but life has never been fair no matter how much the government tries to legislate it so.
I was a sick child (asthma as well) and was in and out of hospitals for years, my parents didn't have insurance and my father was trying to build his farming business at the time so it was a squeeze at times but they paid all of it, they would never have even considered that it was somebody else's responsibility to help pay for my care.

I'll never understand how anybody would think it's anybody else's responsibility outside of the family involved, but I guess that's why I've never been a member of the Democratic Party.

You guys are lucky in one way though... the aca is actually helping you so I can understand how you can be a bit ambivalent about the mandate and the other downsides to the law.

But look at it from my standpoint.
Under the aca my healthcare costs have gone from less than $2000 per year paying for my treatments and medications myself, to almost $10,000 per year for a combination of premiums plus still also having to pay for my treatments myself because of the $5000 deductible.

You guys are 2 of the winners in this, you now have insurance to cover your care, and believe it or not I think that's a good thing.

I just happen to be one of the ones that's feels he's getting fucked.