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Nearly a quarter of US residents are on medicaid, and have free healthcare. Medical bankruptcy was a big problem, but under the ACA the yearly out of pocket ma
by gnopgnip 7y ago
Nearly a quarter of US residents are on medicaid, and have free healthcare.
Medical bankruptcy was a big problem, but under the ACA the yearly out of pocket max has all but eliminated these.
- negrit 7y agothere is no such thing as free healthcare, someone has to pay for it...
- mandelbrotwurst 7y agoDo you think it is likely that the person you're replying to doesn't know this or are they simply calling attention to the fact that Medicaid recipients receive care that they themselves do not pay for? Is the statement in some way unclear? Care to suggest a rephrasing?
- negrit 7y agoI'm fairly confident that the person I'm replying to knows this. A better phrasing would be "subsidized healthcare".
- wolco 7y agoI wonder if we get to the point where you are the product.
- tzs 7y ago> Medical bankruptcy was a big problem, but under the ACA the yearly out of pocket max has all but eliminated these Not any more [1]. The Trump administration has sufficiently weakened ACA that you can now get insurance that isn't sufficient to prevent you from getting a huge bill if you have the temerity to have a heart attack or something else expensive like that. Or you might not even have insurance, since they also killed the tax penalty for not having insurance. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21012474 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21012474