>>>I found a study that showed a decline in mortality rates for groups affected by Medicaid expansion vs control groups.
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>You mean the ACA Medicaid expansion?
Yes. That's one feature - the only one - that made any sense to me.

>How about telling a 45 year old that he has to cover Medicare costs for people who systematically underfunded the program during those wonderful inflationary years when every dollar properly underwritten now would be worth 100?
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What does that have to do with the ACA?


> Back we go to the good old days of middle class bankruptcies if you're so foolish as to become unwell -.
I had a very quadruple bypass in 1988 with lots of complications that required 6 more admissions and didn't go bankrupt
I was self employed then and carried a major med plan with a 5K deductible - large by the standards then.
All that wound up costing me less than $5K.