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Nope. Just trying to understand the facts. I know several people on ACA plans, and I do not believe your experience is representative of the majority. Nevert
by hcurtiss 7y ago
Nope. Just trying to understand the facts. I know several people on ACA plans, and I do not believe your experience is representative of the majority. Nevertheless, my comments aren't targeted at you. I maintain that half the median income can vary a great deal in quality of life between different countries.
- michaelmrose 7y agoLinking health care to taxes is a tremendously stupid idea. I wouldn't be surprised if lots of people who were already on employer provided health plans didn't even look at ACA options or were poorly served. In America if you are really poor you are fucked if you claw your way up slightly you are barely better off or worse than when you started. I'd bet dollars to donuts that the people you know on ACA plans aren't by most people's definition poor.
- hcurtiss 7y agoAnd you'd be wrong. In any event, again, your expensive illnesses are not representative, and many people in Washington at half the median income would be getting along suitably well. That same stat in Arkansas may be a very different story. It's at least hypothetically possible (and I don't have a great deal invested in the thesis) that industrious upstanding people in the bottom quartile are actually better off in Japan than in the US, and that could be precisely because of those virtues. The author takes it as a given that being in the bottom quartile is poverty everywhere and concludes those virtues don't matter (see, both countries have lots of people in the bottom quartile -- those Japanese virtues don't make them better off). But because half the median income means different things in different places, I cannot make it there. Not, at least, without more information.