Take a good look. You probably won't be able to afford to see one in person--if Trump gets his way--without hocking your car
As seen on McCarter’s diary
You’re going to let 20 million people lose their health insurance and not do anything to replace it?
Pretty much. And their followers won’t care, until it affects them individually, but then they can always blame someone else. Those who aren’t yet affected can hand-wave away their fellows’ plight: “they were too lazy” or some other victim-blaming excuse.
Many people don’t get what ACA did: no lifetime maxes, no getting dropped for making a claim, no refusal for preexisting conditions, cap on insurance companies’ profits (% of expenses), keeping kids on parents’ plans, etc. All that goes away.
All they care—and are mad about—is they were forced to buy something (many times with subsidies) from the government.
Premiums will go up, just like they always did. ACA wasn’t the sole cause of rising premiums.
Trump might pick the Paul Ryan stupid plan of “allowing intrastate competition” which will do nothing. So those of us who lose our jobs will have a choice of unaffordable COBRA or also-unaffordable individual plans.
The silver lining is we might—might!—just remember what it was like to have ACA and lose it, and use that experience choose better next time, like insisting on single-player.
