#like sure it's true i wasn't buying health insurance before the ACA & i did like staying on my mom's insurance until i was 26 | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

girderednerve · 1 month ago

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i also love jokes & am making no moral comment but i don't really understand why there have been multiple people celebrating the death of the health insurance CEO as a solution to the problem of american healthcare? there have been no reforms; no reforms are on the table; the only change that seems to have taken place is that large insurers are now paying for more private security for executives, which doesn't seem like the kind of shift likely to result in lower premiums or higher approval rates

#i am deeply sympathetic to 'this guy sucked and he died yay' & again i am not making a moral comment #i understand the 'we show them how strong we are & they offer us concessions' argument but i don't see that actually happening rn?#i am aware of the bcbs ny/ct policy change but i see no reason they won't wait six months & do it again. it's fucked! it's all fucked.#perhaps i am wrong & there is in fact some kind of huge swing now in motion; i would be glad to be wrong; just seems at best. uh.#preemptive. is all i'm saying #tangentially related i have seen multiple people go 'you don't know how bad it was before the ACA! people used to stay #in bad relationships & dangerous jobs just to keep their health insurance!' which has made me nuts #like sure it's true i wasn't buying health insurance before the ACA & i did like staying on my mom's insurance until i was 26 #but i could not buy health insurance after i turned 26; i could not afford even a catastrophic coverage plan; i lived in a red state #it's annoying to see people lectured for not appreciating material improvements to their lives when their lives have not improved #because they do not live in the commonwealth of massachusetts! or whatever! anyway!

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