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sarah jeong@sarahjeong.bsky.social |
kind of weird to see the “ACA is useless” bs pop up again in 2024. it’s not great but like. y’all remember how much birth control pills cost pre-ACA???????????
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Vietvtc4
@vietvtc4.bsky.social
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Pre-ACA birth control costs were insane! 🤯
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TasiAF
@tasiaf.bsky.social
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i honestly got a lot of my asthma care while i was uninsured via clinical trials. and an np friend giving me samples because my advair was 170$
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@ltponcho.bsky.social
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begging my fellow americans to recall things that happened more than a month ago challenge
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Christopher Farnsworth
@chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social
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Old enough to remember being turned down for "pre-existing conditions."
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Matt McDaniel
@themattmcd.bsky.social
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25-year-olds still on their parents’ insurance are very upset about the ACA.
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Noah
@ncallaway.bsky.social
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I’ve been running a business for 10 years, employing 2-8 other people over that time. We started it February of the year the ACA went into effect. Couldn’t have gotten affordable private insurance otherwise, and wasn’t willing to go without.
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Gwen C. Katz
@gwenckatz.bsky.social
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Gender discrimination was legal. I don't just mean they could charge you twice as much if you needed maternity coverage. I mean they could straight-up charge you twice as much for the exact same coverage purely because you were a woman.
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Ken Marable
@kenmarable.bsky.social
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Oh my goodness, yes! I teach Medical Ethics, and one of the things I point out with the ACA is there are a few big things that get attention, but 80% of it was simply plugging TONS of painful holes scattered all over the system. It's far from perfect, but it's a massive improvement over what we had.
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John Hoyabembe 🦋
@johnhoyabembe.bsky.social
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Anyone who says the ACA is bad/useless is someone who never had to experience being denied medical care because of a pre existing condition, like they were a used car.
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Sarah with an H
@trianglesally.bsky.social
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I was uninsured for 9 years before ACA became a thing. I thank my lucky stars for it. Now that I'm older and still poor af (not for lack of trying to make more money), i have many health issues that would go untreated otherwise and my quality of life would be awful and I'd be unable to work.
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Mike
@imike.lol
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people get so used to things they forget how it was before then. you think health insurance is tied to employment now, it was way worse before
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Nope
@torshi.bsky.social
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I feel like there's no way anyone over 35 didn't know SOMEONE whose life course was profoundly changed by a health issue or accident
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@lolsob.bsky.social
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I don't. And I'm afraid to ask. And also they will jack up the price of other female controlled birth control methods if not make them downright illegal.
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Daniel Gilmore
@gilmored85.bsky.social
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I think given the fact that a lot of the ppl saying this sort of stuff are probs like 25 & under, no they dont remember and thats part of the issue.
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A.L. Goldfuss
@ghoulpus.bsky.social
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printing out manufacturer's coupons at kinkos every month
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RidgewayGirl
@ridgewaygirl.bsky.social
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My employer only allowed refills in 30-day increments. Birth control pills were sold in 28-day packs. That was a whole argument with HR on whether the company would cover them or if everyone on BC had to have a 2 day gap every month.
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Anna Rompage
@urbanfarmer3321.bsky.social
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The ACA is a good start and would be infinitely better if it wasn’t for republicans and conservative dem influences on the legislation
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Arkenor
@arkenor.bsky.social
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It is weird. If it's so useless, did they support GOP attempts to repeal it?
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chbarts
@chbarts.bsky.social
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I'm alive because of the ACA:
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow
@tomtomorrow.bsky.social
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As someone who's been a freelancer long enough to remember trying to get individual health insurance in the 1990s, those people can absolutely fuck off.
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Bénédicte C
@benecal.bsky.social
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Remember how if were diagnosed with a condition, say MS, and had to switch plans for a job, then that condition became “pre-existing” and not the new health insurers responsibility. AKA no insurance for you for your catastrophic health needs. Not cool.
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AV Hiero
@avhiero.bsky.social
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They don't because they were 5 when the ACA passed. Even of the people old enough to remember, half never used bc. It's the same with pre-existing condition or lifetime cap stuff.
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Sock Puppet Pundit
@sockpuppetpundit.bsky.social
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Remember when they could drop your insurance ‘just because’?
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Hare 🍉
@haredurer.bsky.social
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Medicaid expansion is pretty great too.
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Colin McMillen
@mcmillen.dev
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ACA is the only reason I was willing to quit my job at Google & go do random freelancing. I feel it's underappreciated how much better the ACA is for small businesses & freelancers. Large companies have a huge advantage in being able to employ people whose fulltime job is "get employees healthcare".
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joqatana
@joqatana.bsky.social
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I had 100% ACA till I turned 65 & now get to pay dental, vision, therapy & meds, rent, car & insurance on $1200 a month and am not allowed to have orvearn money.
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Amy Hoy
@amyhoy.bsky.social
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i literally enrolled in community college bc it was the only way to keep health insurance until i got a job that offered it. i stayed enrolled til my benefits kicked in.
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@nonplussed73.bsky.social
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Online is rotting many people’s brains
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Forktail
@elanoides.bsky.social
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Pre-ACA I got denied healthcare coverage for Gilbert Syndrome as a pre-existing condition which: A) I didn't know I had B) Has virtually no symptoms C) Requires no treatment D) May actually decrease your risk of hearth disease Can't be overstated just how bad the ghouls in insurance boardrooms were
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Elizabeth🜆
@elizajoku.bsky.social
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The pre-existing condition crap where the insurance companies would deny tubal ligations because of prior yeast infections. It still sucks that teeth, eyes, and feet are luxury body parts, but it was way worse in the before times.
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@tequila0341.bsky.social
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Preexisting conditions like diabetes or having been pregnant were perfectly fine to refuse coverage back in the day
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KikiDoodle KikiDoodle Art & Purrmaids
@kikidoodle.bsky.social
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When mine went up to $60 a month i started crying because it was the first time I was able to not skip days at school from pain, and I didn't think I could afford to continue taking them. I had never had sex.
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treedweller
@treedweller.bsky.social
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If they ever manage to turn this back, Covid will be a pre-existing condition, just saying
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Rufus T. Firefly
@rufustfirefly.bsky.social
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Also weird to see an enforced, penalty-driven, right wing sop to insurance corporations pushed by a neoliberal monster who refused a public option, presented as something other than that. And Biden could have ordered M4A under pandemic authority, the greatest no-brainer in history.
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cats&plants&entropy
@brittlepencil.bsky.social
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I think it was fine when it passed, but I think we can criticize something after 10 years no? The problem was insurance companies and the ACA did very little to rein them in: they just found other places to overcharge and make healthcare inaccessible.
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HeyJoe
@thatjoe.bsky.social
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People want so badly to find an ironic target for their dissatisfaction. Just hate Republicans, they make good things worse and bad things worser.
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General Roobie Breastnut
@slendy5127.bsky.social
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All I need to know/care about is that a friend of a friend had no reasonable way to pay for cancer treatment pre ACA, and after it was passed he could get it it covered. Sounds like it’s better than nothing
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Heather in Chicago
@heatherk.bsky.social
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Or that you couldn’t even get insurance if you had pre-existing conditions? Or that insurance companies could just decide to cancel it if you got really sick?
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Torr Leonard 🧵
@torrleonard.bsky.social
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Adrift
@adriftsf.bsky.social
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For profit healthcare is BS. My obamacare plan for Kaiser is over $1000/month. Give me a fucking break.
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Rokey
@rokey.bsky.social
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I remember underwriting and being denied coverage because I had no insurance when I applied. I remember lying to my doctor so I wouldn't have a pre-existing condition in my chart, or just not going to the doctor at all for the same reason.
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Sylvia Izzo Hunter
@sylwrites.bsky.social
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And PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS. Such as being born, or being pregnant, or being a cancer survivor. How are people's memories so short??
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The Woker
@bone2meetu.bsky.social
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The ACA allowed me to see a doctor, and then I was saddled with thousands of dollars in medical debt
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my dogs are better people than i am
@dascoochie.bsky.social
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Preexisting conditions
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Tim Park
@timpark.bsky.social
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SERIOUSLY!!! And don't forget it just being possible for your health plan to randomly drop you when you started using your benefits
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sarah jeong
@sarahjeong.bsky.social
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I am reminded of the dystopian past when I read through pet insurance policies and go “is that even legal???” pets aren’t human which means they get treated like people did prior to obamacare
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