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Look at it from the point-of-view of poor people. If you're really poor, you might depend on acrobatic credit-card usage & cash-advance agencies to barely hold
by smtddr 13y ago
Look at it from the point-of-view of poor people. If you're really poor, you might depend on acrobatic credit-card usage & cash-advance agencies to barely hold together a paycheck-to-paycheck life. If one of your children gets sick and the medical-cost ruin you. Your credit-cards stop working or get some insane interest-rate. Now you're in a situation that makes you wonder how your family is gonna eat this month or if you'll end up homeless within 3 months of not paying rent. BTW, this is the kind of situation I _hope_ Obamacare can prevent, but that's a whole separate discussion....
- dragonwriter 13y agoThe main way that the ACA prevents it is (well, except in the states that elected not to take the almost-entirely-federally-funded-forever expansion of Medicaid) is by expanding Medicaid eligibility criteria so that quite a lot more of the even moderately poor are covered by Medicaid. While, in the sense of being part of the ACA this is part of "ObamaCare", its not part of the regulations and mandate for private insurance that most discussion of ObamaCare focusses on.