I wish dental was more of a focus

dental health is incredibly important for overall health and it's getting harder and harder for people to get treatment and care they need.

I do have insurance. Good insurance.

I have a relative who doesn't have dental and had to have some major work done. It ended up costing him around 10 grand. I'm glad I have dental and I feel kind of bad for not taking advantage of it especially what happened to him.

10k isn't even that bad in the world of dental

teeth are heavily based in genetics in addition to habits so many people are fucked from birth just like everything else

affects heart health and self esteem and limits opportunity in the job market contributing to harmful stress etc etc

you don't even hear about dental in the world of politics which is truly unfortunate

I know right? This is a fucking TERRIBLE bill. It's so sad to me that Democrats are more fiscally responsible than Republicans. Downright pathetic.

Looks better than Obamacare to me! A move in the right direction. Hell, this is a move toward UBI as well. Love it.

Obamacare isn't great, so I'm not too bothered by this. What I am bothered by, is the fact that the Republican party is way too likely to replace it with absolutely nothing.

As long as the USA keep seeing health care as a luxury goods, the country will never get rid of its status as the worst 1st world country in the world.

The removal of the mandate will most likely raise prices.

I thought the repeal and replace was going to be way worse than this so overall I'd say pragmatically I'm surprised and relieved.

I'm glad people are finally starting to realize Republicans don't care about healthcare spending but rather want to ensure their the insurance companies got them paid off so they can basically get subsidies vs left wing plans of single payer or universal coverage results in the same amount of spending, it's just the nationalized system removes the insurance companies out of the equation so you have a subsidy basically directly onto the American people on an individual/family level.

"Individual mandate and employer mandate retroactively repealed"

"The legislation, meanwhile, would preserve protections for those with pre-existing conditions by prohibiting insurers from denying coverage or charging them more. It also would continue to allow young adults to stay on their parents’ plans up to age 26"

Not a good combination to implement by any financial standard. Insurance companies charge people more based on pre-existing conditions for a reason, when they accept people with pre-existing conditions, they take a loss. Furthermore, when you mandate that insurance companies accept people regardless of pre-existing conditions, you enable young healthy people to simply wait until they get sick before purchasing insurance, and since the company cannot deny them coverage they have to accept them and take a financial loss. This is why Obamacare came with an insurance mandate, so people did not take advantage of the system by waiting until they got sick to buy insurance, and to offset the losses that insurance companies deal with by taking people in and not charging them more based on their pre-existing conditions.

Protecting pre-existing conditions without some form of collective payment leads to one of two outcomes
1. The whole system collapses financially
or 2. Everyone's premiums skyrocket to prevent the system from financially collapsing.

Under Obamacare premiums were already going up due to a lower number of people buying insurance than what they anticipated. If you remove the mandate this insufficiency in insurance buyers will only increase, causing premiums to increase at an even higher rate than before... but perhaps there is a substitute for the mandate that I am not aware of, in which case maybe one of you could enlighten me?..

This post was edited by TCassa89 on Mar 7 2017 04:23am

- Look like low & middle american class will be fucked again (sorry for my english)
- Senate may not let it happend -they are affraid of people dying on TV due le obamacare removal-
- Im not surprised about a rampant fraud on obamacare -do not use it as an argument-: federal milk cow vs private hospitals & capitalist health care culture is an abomination.

- Funny picture:



ty and gl doing america great again

This post was edited by Saucisson6000 on Mar 7 2017 05:33am