2015 signups start 11/15 (healthcare, premium, Obama, solution)

[florida.bob]

The marketplace is readier than ever .....

https://www.healthcare.gov/

[Dockside]

Originally Posted by florida.bob

The marketplace is readier than ever .....

https://www.healthcare.gov/

Yup. Conveniently past the mid-term elections so people don't vote their rate hikes.

[florida.bob]

Originally Posted by Dockside

Yup. Conveniently past the mid-term elections so people don't vote their rate hikes.

When Ins rates go up at a lower rate than the HC spending, that's a good thing for people, don't you think?

[fordlover]

Originally Posted by florida.bob

The marketplace is readier than ever .....

https://www.healthcare.gov/

Let's hope it's more ready than when it went live. I certainly couldn't imagine it being any LESS ready, unless they just turned off and unplugged the servers.

[BentBow]

Originally Posted by Dockside

Yup. Conveniently past the mid-term elections so people don't vote their rate hikes.

Just think what the ass whoopin would have looked like, had it been released(it was ready) before the elections.

[Goinback2011]

Another year of welfare for the leeches.

[Mathguy]

Originally Posted by florida.bob

When Ins rates go up at a lower rate than the HC spending, that's a good thing for people, don't you think?

Not really.

It means that either:

a) the insurance companies are going to eventually go bankrupt, but they have guarantees from Obama....so taxpayers lose out.

b) More people are being pushed to large deductible "major medical" type policies and thus paying the costs themselves.

c) Taxpayers are picking up more of the subsidy.

Meanwhile Obama's Czar Jeff Immelt, CEO of GE just dropped insurance coverage for ALL GE RETIREES and threw them onto the exchanges with $1000 credit. That move just means that my parents insurance costs just went up about triple.

Thanks GE! Thanks Obama!

[chucksnee]

Originally Posted by florida.bob

The marketplace is readier than ever .....

https://www.healthcare.gov/

“This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the mandate as taxes. If CBO scored the mandate as taxes, the bill dies. Okay, so it’s written to do that. In terms of risk rated subsidies, if you had a law which said that healthy people are going to pay in – you made explicit healthy people pay in and sick people get money, it would not have passed… Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really really critical for the thing to pass… Look, I wish Mark was right that we could make it all transparent, but I’d rather have this law than not.”

Must have been one of the voters in red above.....

[pghquest]

Originally Posted by florida.bob

When Ins rates go up at a lower rate than the HC spending, that's a good thing for people, don't you think?

insurance premiums are a variabled linked to the economy.

insurance companies pay out a set amount per procedure code and this fluctuates yearly, which of course the consumer pays for..

if the economy sucks, the cost of the increase is smaller than usually and thus lowering the insurance increase..

So your solution is to keep the economy in the toilet in order to validate ACA is a success..

Ok, if thats the plan you support, you go for it.

[katzpaw]

Test and make sure you can login before the 15th. I had invalid password issues logging this weekend and had to call support. You don't want to be phoning support on or after the 15th.