>>>>Today I hear that last-man-standing Anthem is pulling out of the ACA market in some counties in Nevada, leaving those residents out in the cold with no Obamacare insurance options.
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>>>>Who is to blame for this?
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>>>That's an easy one. Barack Obama and the Democrats who voted for this horrible law.
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>>Have to agree.
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>>Somewhere back in the fog of history someone decided that health care = health insurance.
>>That's insane.
>>Insurers - private or public- add no value to the health care system and take billions out of it.
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>>There are lots of people in this country would can't afford to pay for a doctor's visit.
>>We should figure out a way to help those people, for sure.
>>However, requiring someone making $100K/year to have health insurance is whacky.
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>Exactly right!
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>We are too rich a country to let people just die on the street for lack of care.
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>Actually before Obamacare, nobody was dying on the street.
>The indigent could always be treated at the ER and they did not pay for it.
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>While that did provide last-ditch treatment - it provided it in the most expensive way possible.
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>We can and should have a more fiscally sane way to provide care for the indigent.

Agreed.
But someone has to figure out a way to stop these spiraling costs.
Forcing people to get insurance was 180 degrees wrong in that regard.
The first line of defense used to be the MD, but they sold out to big pharma a long time ago.
The consumer has to step up and say "Enough!"




The consumer has to take charge and