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02:24 PM Sistersolo Sistersolo is offline Senior Member First
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297  And how is it "basically a Republican plan"? What
Republicans have pushed for, for years, are tort reform and the
ability to purchase insurance across state lines, neither of
which are included in Obamacare.  While I probably should have
said "mature" instead of "elderly" with respect to maternity
coverage, saying that an Obamacare high-deductable policy is the
same as catastrophic insurance is totally ignoring the fact of
the huge premium difference between the two.  I have never
questioned that a good point of Obamacare is coverage of pre-
existing conditions. I do, however, believe that if that was
actually the intent of the push for the ACA, that it could have
been done better, cheaper, and with much less disruption.  When
this bill was sold to a partisan Congress that had not even had
a chance to read it, the cost