Some basic facts about the ACA (affordable care act, aka “obamacare”)

faesaridollie:

To help educate the masses, and since we actually talked about this law A LOT in my Master’s degree, I’m going to try to break down this law to help get rid of stereotypes and other crap surrounding it

• Possibly the best part of it is the fact that it REQUIRES insurances to cover birth control, so it’ll come very cheap or at NO COST to the women who request it for whatever reason. People don’t realize that the best “Anti-pregnancy” one (nexplanon, has a chance of roughly 1/5000 in being pregnant in a given year) cost literally $1200-2000, depending on the facility giving it to you and who gave it tot he facility without insurance
• Literally the only reason people started calling it “Obamacare” was because the Republicans hated Obama, that’s it. 
• The law honestly should have been called the “Accessible care act” because its INTENTIONS was to allow healthcare to become much more ACCESSIBLE to people across ALL incomes (from the deepest poverty to those rich) and provide a “minimum care statement” that ALL insurance plans had to offer (such as free physicals and prevention health exams), but “The accessible care act” doesn’t have as nice a ring to it as “affordable care act”
• Fox news (if you didn’t know, VERY pro-republican leaning) will smear this law every chance they get DO NOT trust information about this law from them
• One reason why costs went up with plans because of this is because the STATES DID NOT WANT TO FUND THIS! The idea was “things will get slightly more expensive before bringing down the cost” but because the states were being total asses about it, they ended up driving up costs for their own selfish reasons
• Those states that chose to invest in the ACA actually saw health insurance prices go down
• As the years went by from its inactment, government kept cutting more and more funds, despite how this has helped nearly 20 million people get insurance
• If a bill loses its funding, its dead in the water. It can be the best bill in the world about whatever subject it was written about, but if it doesn’t have funding, it’s dead in the water

So in conclusion:

• Despite Trump’s attempt at gutting the ACA, it’s still recruiting MANY people
• Again, 20 freaking million people have health insurance now because of the ACA, 20 MILLION
• People complaining about how your prices went up for healthcare? BLAME YOUR REPRESENTATIVE! Do NOT blame the bill! THEY BROUGHT THIS ON YOU! The bill did not!