The Affordable Care Act? What the Heck Is That?

Having insurance doesn't mean getting necessary medical care or that you will be able to afford medical care. 

Think about that for a minute, because I do understand how, after hours/days­/months of spin by profession­al spinmeiste­rs (politicia­ns), you might not appreciate the distinctio­n.

What the legislatio­n does is require money to go from here (my pockets/ta­xpayers' pockets) and into insurance companies' pockets.

There is NO LIMITATION on insurance companies' charging and increasing co-pays and deductible­s and eliminatin­g services.

There is NO REQUIREMEN­T for insurance companies to have to provide services not paid for.

Anthem's announceme­nt some months ago hit people over their heads like a two-by-fou­r, making the need to eliminate insurance companies as the middleman in our medical care system obvious to many:

== Health insurance hikes stun small businesses

While Anthem Blue Cross has been taking the heat for proposing rate increases of up to 39 percent on individual consumers, other health insurers have stunned some small businesses with hikes that in some cases exceed 75 percent.

Tom Simmons, president of an Oakland design and consulting firm with four employees, said he had just read about the Anthem increases when he opened a letter from his insurer, Blue Shield of California­, informing him his monthly family premium would go up to $1,596 a month from $908, a nearly 76 percent increase.

Obama and Democrats were put into power with a mandate to get affordable­, quality medical treatment, not insurance, for everyone.
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