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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (843634)	3/19/2015 12:59:12 PM
From: Alighieri	1 Recommendation Recommended By zax Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 1576346

Bigger questions are what is society's responsibility to buy health insurance for people who choose not to buy it for themselves -- that is, after all, the vast majority of the uninsured. Always has been. Says who? You run around with all these fantastical but non sensical notions.... Who are the uninsured?Most of the uninsured are in low-income working families. In 2013, nearly 8 in 10 were in a family with a worker, and nearly 6 in 10 have family income below 200% of poverty. Reflecting the more limited availability of public coverage, adults have been more likely to be uninsured than children. People of color are at higher risk of being uninsured than non-Hispanic Whites. How does the lack of insurance affect access to health care?People without insurance coverage have worse access to care than people who are insured. Almost a third of uninsured adults in 2013 (30%) went without needed medical care due to cost. Studies repeatedly demonstrate that the uninsured are less likely than those with insurance to receive preventive care and services for major health conditions and chronic diseases. kff.org Even people who choose to forego insurance don't' really have the right to do so since the rest of us are obligated to provide health care for them when they need it. So the ACA solves the problem by rightly forcing you to buy insurance, and helping you financially if you can't afford it. What's wrong with that? Al