# The GOP Hates Americans (Health Insurance Exchanges)

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [September 27, 2013, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gop-hates-americans-health-insurance-exchanges/669797 "2013-09-27T13:08:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2013, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gop-hates-americans-health-insurance-exchanges/669797/133 "2013-09-28T18:22:02Z")

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> [@TonySinclair](#):
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> It literally makes my stomach hurt to read some of the posts from the right wingers in this thread. This is not a stupid game. People are dying from lack of health care. People are dying because uninsured medical costs are so high that they put off seeing a doctor until they are in such pain that their cancer or whatever has advanced beyond the curable stage.

[A Doper Example](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=16705421&postcount=32)

Thankfully, while serious, it doesn’t look fatal.

> [@Broomstick's Husband Is In the Hospital](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broomsticks-husband-is-in-the-hospital/669791/32):
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> I did get snappish with the nurse. She was getting scoldly about him re-using catheters and going on about how he needs to use a new one every time…
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> “Medicare pays for a couple hundred catheters a month…” I pointed out _we don’t have Medicare_. That’s not our insurance. And we can NOT find a place that will accept our insurance for those catheters he needs. We don’t re-use them because we’re stupid, it’s because we _really don’t_ have a choice.
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> \<snip\>
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> Which is just another example of our jack-up health care “system” that we can get covered for tens of thousands for an emergency hospital stay but when it comes to preventing it with something as simple as a sterile piece of plastic we’re kicked to the curb.

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