A new study published by the Urban Institute this week finds that removing the employer mandate from the Affordable Care Act will have little impact on either insurance coverage or government spending--but that removing the individual-mandate provision would significantly increase the number of uninsured individuals and affect government spending.
Obamacare Study: Employer Mandate May Not Matter Much, but the Individual Mandate Does - NationalJournal.com
Is there any question whose interests Obama is looking out for?
It's not surprising to me that putting off the business mandate changes little. Fewer than 2% of companies with 50+ employees don't offer insurance.
What is surprising that anyone thinks that requiring the irresponsible to pay more in taxes as a penality for their lack of responsibility is a bad thing.
I'm I missing something here?
It's not surprising to me that putting off the business mandate changes little. Fewer than 2% of companies with 50+ employees don't offer insurance.
What is surprising that anyone thinks that requiring the irresponsible to pay more in taxes as a penality for their lack of responsibility is a bad thing.
I'm I missing something here?
Obamacare Study: Employer Mandate May Not Matter Much, but the Individual Mandate Does - NationalJournal.com
Is there any question whose interests Obama is looking out for?
The fact that an employer not buying you health insurance no more makes them irresponsible than if they don't buy you auto, flood, or renters insurance?
Its a better deal anyway.
1: we need to eliminate the employer from HC. No mandate will do that.
2: Mandate HC costs 9.5% of pay. Market HC costs 2% -4% of pay. (8% for rich types)
Once we all have market coverage, why would anybody want to pay MORE for the "mandated" coverage?????
(and yes those % are part of the law)
Those percentages are all fine and dandy.
What if the insurance companies stop selling insurance?
UnitedHealthcare Leaves California's Individual Market | KPBS.org
Some one will step in for and easy 15% profit on billions.
Those percentages are all fine and dandy.
What if the insurance companies stop selling insurance?
UnitedHealthcare Leaves California's Individual Market | KPBS.org
Right...
United Healthcare is leaving because there is too much profit to be had there.
If they dont like it, and no one steps in, all the better. The whole point of HC reform is to ban health insurance anyway...........
But since we got only part reform, someone will form a new corp, and take that 15% for now.
I will agree that the ultimate conclusion will be a single payer system. This is just more evidence that the entire Obamacare debacle was a lie based on deception wrapped in a swindle presented by thieves.
I have been confused throughout this long and tortured mess why the people who arrange to pay the overinflated bills of the healthcare industry are cast as the villains in this little melodrama.
The people who set the rates and gather fortunes for the care rendered are not singled out as anything but heroic. The people who pay for those exorbitant rates and support the system are the villains. Why is this?
Because they take money and provide no HC.
Because they distort medical decisions to screw the people.
They need to be banned.
Leave USA for say New Zealand, go to a few dentists and Dr's. then you will understand the criminality of the USA system.
It's not surprising to me that putting off the business mandate changes little. Fewer than 2% of companies with 50+ employees don't offer insurance.
What is surprising that anyone thinks that requiring the irresponsible to pay more in taxes as a penality for their lack of responsibility is a bad thing.
Then we can have the single payer system - run by govt - that we should have gone for in the first place. Medicare for all. We can join the civilized western countries in providing health care to our citizens, leaving the profit-makers out of it.
Maybe the idea that it basically forces people to take part in commerce? That the consequence of this is that as long as the government calls something a tax they can force the people to do whatever they want. There is also the little fact that the government is not in the business of making sure I live up to their standards of responsible behavior. If I wanted a mommy I would have never left home.
How is a single payer system civilized again?
I didn't say or suggest that. I am totally against insurance being provided by employers. what I said was that individuals who don't have insurance are irresponsible.
So are you suggesting that government shouldn't make murder or theft illegal? Or to make speeders or drunks pay a fine?
The government enforces whatever set of standards that "we the people" chose. We ARE the government, and at any time we can vote people out of office who don't create good laws, and vote new ones in. If you don't like our standards, then you are welcome to work within the system to change them, or to leave the country.
How much do you make a year Imagep? Because I would bet that its more than minimum wage. And probably more than $9/hr. Also..do you have a spouse and kids?
You see, that is just a weird argument. I make the case that government shouldn't force people into commerce and you equate that to murder, theft, speeding tickets, and drunks. What in the world does any of those things have to do with forced commerce?
I'm not even going to humor the idea the government is the people or any sort of arguments that deals with this false premise. The fact of the matter is that forcing people to buy insurance is about lowering the rates of everyone else and making decisions they freely decided to take part in cheaper. You're basically robbing peoples liberty and their right to use their money as they see fit all because some people decided to buy a service. There is no justification for that. Just because you make a choice and it's expensive means nothing to me and I reason to consider any moves made towards me to relieve your situation as valid.
If I desire to be entirely irresponsible with my life, be that not going to the doctor, not buying insurance, not buying healthy food, not keeping my air condition in working order, or whatever, that is my choice to make and you have no justification at all to step in and tell me to do otherwise.
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