Barack Obama has taken our healthcare system hostage. Repeat it often.

— S.M (@redsteeze) October 21, 2013

This is the crap we’re going to see nonstop. The right wing has taken leave of its senses and reality.

The ACA doesn’t hold anyone hostage. Insurance companies are getting a windfall because they get the full price of the insurance premiums from people who register and get policies through them. The government subsidy means that the insured doesn’t have to pay the full value but the insurer gets the full amount.

It sets new minimum levels of quality for insurance policies. It eliminates restrictions for preexisting conditions, provides dependent coverage through age 26, and eliminates lifetime caps.

All of those restrictions could and did have killing consequences previously. Someone max out their lifetime cap, and they couldn’t get insurance, let alone affordable coverage leaving them susceptible to ailments that could and should have been treated.

People die all the time b/c of the lack of insurance coverage under the pre-ACA system. It’s a bad system when you don’t have coverage. The ACA is designed to encourage people to get insurance.

All we’re seeing is scare tactics from the right. Not facts.