Peter H Christian
1 min readAug 6, 2020

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Robert

Agree system needs fixing. Still does. And ACA didn't do that.

Want more examples?

My son got coverage. His deductibles were so high he stopped going to doctors. Couldn't afford it, but he was "covered".

Our plan at my company was cancelled. So much for you can keep your plan. Our new plans went up 30% with higher deductibles and lower coverage.

So much for keeping your plan and lower costs of $2,500 per person!

People who weren't on plans were now "forced" to go on them. Otherwise they faced fines. Roberts passed it through the court by declaring it a tax, although we were told it wasn't.

Once the mandate was off, people went back to not buying coverage as they had before. But it was claimed that they"lost" their insurance. No, they decided not to buy coverage just as before.

And for kickers, student loans were taken over by the government. That had a lot to do with healthcare. ACA was a joke.

Still agree that the system needs fixing. But this wasn't it and it was a signature achievement. If it was, not much was achieved.

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Peter H Christian
Peter H Christian

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Peter played a key role in the 700% growth of Crayola over 17 years. His first book, “What About the Vermin Problem?” is now an Amazon bestseller.

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