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The Affordable Care Act (ACA) open enrollment period for US Soylentis has ended. The website was plagued by problems from its launch and even had issues on the the last day.
So, did any Soylentis actually use healthcare.gov to sign up and how has your experience been with the Obamacare system so far?
For those that don't know, from Wikipedia:
The ACA was enacted with the goals of increasing the quality and affordability of health insurance, lowering the uninsured rate by expanding public and private insurance coverage, and reducing the costs of healthcare for individuals and the government. It introduced a number of mechanisms - including mandates, subsidies, and insurance exchanges - meant to increase coverage and affordability. The law also requires insurance companies to cover all applicants within new minimum standards and offer the same rates regardless of pre-existing conditions or sex. Additional reforms aimed to reduce costs and improve healthcare outcomes by shifting the system towards quality over quantity through increased competition, regulation, and incentives to streamline the delivery of healthcare. The Congressional Budget Office projected that the ACA will lower both future deficits and Medicare spending.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Sunday April 06 2014, @08:09PM
Nothing to discuss, since the prompt was allegedly about the tech of the sign up process, not the politics of health care. I mean, why should I have to pay taxes just because _you_ have a sucking chest wound? What ever happened to personal responsibility? Why cannot the poor just not get sick, and save us lots of money? "Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens" -Schiller
(Score: 0) by JohnnyComputer on Monday April 07 2014, @02:33AM
Why should the public foot the bill to cure you of tuberculosis? Take care of yourself, you blood sucker. You're the one who has that disgusting, painful, but miraculously now curable disease. I don't have it. At least not yet. Oh yeah, forgot that part. You mean, if you have it, you can give it to me? You arse hole! Don't we have places we can put you? Jeez!
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People forget that the public's health is a frequency-dependent phenomenon. My getting immunized for the flu, helps you not get the flu, even were you not to get immunized (free-rider!).
As for the website, well I'm fortunate enough to already have healthcare. But I liked the Medi-Cal when I had it, before I got this job.