Gee, who besides every single credible and reputable healthcare expert on the planet could have predicted this was going to happen when you take away affordable healthcare access from millions of Americans?
Link: After Obamacare Cuts, Hospitals Are Treating More Uninsured Patients - The New York Times
Defunding the Affordable Care Act ACA (aka 'Obamacare') forcing tens of millions of Americans to lose their affordable ACA plans and be thrown to the healthcare insurance free-market wolves, means a lot of people being forced to choose between basic necessities needed just to survive in Drumpf's inflationary war economy, or going without health insurance.
And then when something goes wrong with these Americans who have been forced to go without health insurance, and they experience a serious medical issue, they show up at your local hospital emergency rooms and the cost of taking care of them without payment gets transferred to everyone else who has healthcare insurance, causing their premiums to rise and overall healthcare costs to increase for everyone as well.
It's just so colossally stupid how we do healthcare in this country and it's so damaging to our national honor and morality as well. Every other modern, industrialized nation on the planet provides free healthcare to their citizens. Only in America do you have to have money in order to not die because you cannot afford to see a doctor.
Nor does it help that one of the two major political parties in this country not only has no interest in addressing the slowly collapsing healthcare system in this country, but they also want to defund and eliminate other American societal safety net programs like Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security.
The whole house of healthcare cards will implode at some point, and who knows what becomes of American's ability to access affordable, quality health care going forward.
---TFG
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