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Obamacare is a bad idea conjured up in a right wing think tank. It is more about saving insurance companies and pharmaceutical firms than saving lives. We could have everyone covered if we had adopted universal tax-funded healthcare like every other civilized country has. The left should stop defending Obamacare and demand something better.
The left took it and ran with it all on their own.
I should have looked for more information on the costs too. Looks like the $840 million was way off. It was actually more than $5 Billion when you include the costs of the state exchanges, many of which have failed:
The average subsidy it more than $3,300 and more than 90% of the people are subsidized.
And we have more than 3.9 million getting subsidized, since many were canceled from the policies they could afford, and we are now subsidizing them as well.
The CBO predicts the subsidies will cost the taxpayers $1.5 Trillion over the next 10 years.
Plus the costs of the insurance company bailouts, the cost of the thousands of new IRS agents, etc. etc.
Still that means exchange cost was a one-off $1,300/enrollee, and $3,300 subsidy is not huge, when you offset it by reduced uncompensated care government payments to hospitals.
Even if we went Universal for just the more serious illness/injury level we would be better off.
Take the worry of bankruptingly expensive catastrophic and traumatic care out of the picture
and then payment for most of medical care is not a concern for the individual OR the provider.
Insurance covering day to day type more minor medical expenses was a major step in the failings of our system.......and cost.
So, you're saying that a law forcing people to buy insurance and me paying for those who "can't" afford it will result in more people with health insurance?
And what is the advantage again?
more people with health insurance = lower total costs as fewer ERs are used by uninsured for routine , non emergency treatment.
If you are a typical Tea Partier I am paying for your insurance. Most Tea Party types are covered by Medicare, Tricare, and VA and a few more by Medicaid. So you have a problem with a small number of people getting $16 billion in subsidies while the Tea Party base is part of $750 billion in subsidies? I am paying for 72 million people who form the Tea Party base and the ACA is 6 million who get subsidies. Which is the larger number? Socialism is great isnt it as long as it benefits you..
Your "War on the Elderly" continues.
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