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[–] 9273428? 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

But it doesn't even help in a catastrophe! Say you get a million dollar medical bill. You pay the deductible, and then your shitty bronze plan covers 60%. You're still left with a hospital bill of 400,000. Might as well still be a million.

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[–] MarcusA 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

The program that passed as Obamacare was not what it started out as. After obstinant Republicans got done with it, it became this Marketplace system. 2hrs of googling will get you up to spped on that part.

Anyway, the issue now is that the program relies on a marketplace of insurance companies who are forced to ensure everyone. They dont want to do this naturally, so there were huge subsidies from Federal GVT to prop up the program. However, Ins companies are not mandated to engage in the program if they dont want too.

Now, with Republicans in power, the subaidies are being cut off and Ind companies are walking away. The Marketplace is running out of vendors. In state after state, the program is collaping under its own weight.

This is largely because nothing was ever done to actually reduce the cost of healthcare in the country, only shift a chunk of the bills to taxpayers. Yet another program to steal from the populous.