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EdmondDantes_

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4. The ACA put minimums on what insurance companies have to spend on care

Reply to Wounded Bear (Original post)

Tue Dec 9, 2025, 03:45 PM

Dec 9

It removed lifetime caps. It mandated minimum coverage. Insurance companies lobbied heavily against the ACA. The ACA has serious flaws, but it wasn't a give away to insurance companies.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2012/06/25/busted-health-insurers-secretly-spent-huge-to-defeat-health-care-reform-while-pretending-to-support-obamacare/

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Remember folks, the ACA is at its heart a Republican plan dreamed up at the Heritage Foundation... [View all] Wounded Bear Dec 9 OP

And D's used to be R's... lame54 Dec 9 #1

Back when "they" attempted to repeal it, we should have .. pat_k Dec 9 #2

Just heard on MS-NOW that Ms Crockett will run on Medicare for All...nt Wounded Bear Dec 9 #3

Greater good, my ass. I'd probably be dead by now if we were still demanding single-payer or nothing. W_HAMILTON Dec 9 #7

Who said single payer or nothing? pat_k Dec 9 #9

The ACA put minimums on what insurance companies have to spend on care EdmondDantes_ Dec 9 #4

I disagree. It further solidifies insurance as the mode of healthcare. Intractable Dec 9 #8

That is exactly what I pay, too. BigmanPigman Dec 9 #10

+1 leftstreet Dec 9 #11

It could have been a decent start leftstreet Dec 9 #5

It's also called progress -- and it's much better than what we had before. W_HAMILTON Dec 9 #6

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