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Cat: There are so many great things about Trumpcare but one of the greatest is that it fucks over everyone's health insurance. Dog: Hang on, I get insurance through this awesome job. How am I fucked? Cat: Trumpcare removes the employer mandate, so companies won't have to provide insurance. Boom, you're buying your own! Dog: Wait, don't tell me—under trumpcare plans will cost more for less coverage. Cat: On top of which if your coverage ever lapses everything wrong with you becomes a pre-existing condition. How great is that? Dog: I may be getting tired of winning. Poster: Trumpcare Points No annoying requirement to buy insurance at all (individual mandate) Poster: Trumpcare Points No pesky requirement to provide insurance (employer mandate) Poster: Trumpcare Points No subsidies, just tax credits (you better have money up front) Companies can overcharge you for pre-existing conditions

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You might think, if you get your health insurance through work, that Trumpcare isn't your problem. You'd be wrong. Aside from simply increasing costs across the board, the AHCA would also charge you for "lapsed" coverage, which is to say you'd be extra screwed if you lost your job and the insurance with it. Of course, you can "choose" to pay COBRA—which sounds like a choice until you've seen the cost of COBRA. So unless you "chose" to be fucking wealthy, you're "choosing" to pay extra for health insurance when you finally do get back on board.

Trumpcare also drops the individual mandate in the name of LIBERTY [confetti falls from roof], in this case the liberty to only get insurance when you're sick, meaning, of course, that the cost of insurance will have to go up for everyone. Which is why there's an individual mandate in the first place.

Trumpcare also drops the employer mandate, meaning employers can just drop coverage if they feel like it. That's more LIBERTY right there [balloons float down]. What this means is more people buying insurance for themselves, which means more lapses in coverage, more chances to be denied for pre-existing conditions, and so on.

Keeping things interesting, Trumpcare also ditches Obamacare's subsidies, turning them into tax credits. Tax credits are great...if you're already wealthy. If you're not, tax credits fucking suck, because who has money to float on health insurance? Plus the tax credits will be less, overall, than the Obamacare subsidies, so they'll not only be going to the wrong people, they'll be weaker.

It's almost stupid at this point to note that the whole reason we got Obamacare was because the free market had failed miserably to provide affordable health insurance for enough people (which optimally would be everyone). Trumpcare takes us back to this "free" market only with added dumb.