Corporate media has been extremely successful at distracting Americans about the truth of the bipartisan, Wall St., ObamaRomneycare. There was never any debate between the corporate parties, only performances and lies.
The truth about underinsurance, it's effect on health outcomes, stress, death and bankruptcy, simply cannot be overstated! Many of us (including myself), who paid/pay outrageous premiums, have already been shifted to catastrophe insurance. (Primary care visits in the under 65 cohort have already dropped tremendously since passage of Obamacare. This is not wealthy people getting less plastic surgery but working people skipping vital screenings, etc.)
What Dr. Flowers and Kevin Zeese cannot state, but is rather obvious, is that these highly profitable underinsurance "products" are the direction most Americans will be pushed into in coming years. It's like getting the minimum car insurance. You pay and pay but get nothing when a disaster hits. Suicides will explode under Obamacare, as the sick and suffering attempt to keep their families from losing everything!
These two paragraphs make the simple point about underinsurance, but please read the entire article linked below.
"There is a lot of confusion about the Affordable Care Act (ACA). At its root the ACA was an insurance company takeover of health care in the United States which included lots of ways for health corporations to profit. There has been a marketing effort to sell people on the ACA by claiming more people will have health insurance, but what is not mentioned is that the type of insurance coverage people will have is going to be skimpier. While it is true that more people will have insurance, the ACA will still leave tens of millions without insurance when fully implemented, and there will be an increase in expensive under-insurance plans.
Prior to the passage of the Obama health reform, there were efforts by some state-level insurance regulators to require insurance companies to provide more extensive coverage by spending 80 to 85 percent of premiums on health services rather than on profit and administration. The Obama law stopped those efforts by putting in place a law for the first time which said that 60-40 plans are acceptable. In a 60-40 plan, the insurance company pays 60 percent of the covered costs, while the enrollee pays 40 percent plus the full amount of uncovered costs, those not included in their policies. Enrollee costs include premiums, deductibles, copays, co-insurance and other out-of-pocket expenses. It is these out-of-pocket costs that quickly lead to health-care debt and bankruptcy."
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