http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16784086#post16784086
You’re simply wrong and can’t bring yourself to admit it. Its gone on so long it really would be humiliating for you to admit error at this point.
Maybe you didn’t read down to the bottom of your link
In other words, they aren’t forced into an exchange, but are moved. It seems that policies not allowed under the new laws get cancelled. I don’t see any way around that. This makes sense to me, since I had a hard time believing that any insurance company was going to just kick a large number of its clients out the door. They can’t be losing money on all these people.
Young people pay more. We knew that. People with very risky high out of pocket plans also pay more. Bad for them if they stay healthy, good for them if they get sick and reduce their chances of bankruptcy.
Yeah, it is messy, but so is our current system.
I didn’t find this since you said California and this appears to be nationwide - which is a much smaller impact than if it were just California.
Could you explain to me, like I’m six years old, how a system that demands that people purchase health insurance or pay a $90 fine is “addicting people to government handouts”. Especially since the existing system already provides some level of service to millions of people who don’t have insurance or the means to pay for it?
Because it kind of seems to me that the current system already provides handouts to millions of people. Obamacare just seems to now require them to chip in for it.
No. Your blog sucks.
I didn’t see that, but I wonder how people will feel about being automatically moved into insurance plans that cost them significantly more.
The FY 2012 deficit was $1.164 billion according to the non-partisan Congressional budget office. This is slightly higher than the preliminary figure of $1.090 billion released right after the end of the fiscal year.
Compare this to the unsourced and incorrect figure of $1.326.55 billion in your web page. I googled that number and can’t find anyone except your source with that number.
However, I am less concerned about this exaggeration than the statement reversing the actual non-partisan expectation of the Affordable Care Act’s fiscal effect.
As to an area where I have lesser concern, I am glad that the direction shown in my first link is downward, with FY2013 having last month been expected to come in at about $753 billion. But I believe it to be going down too fact given our current economic weakness.
I am also concerned about this statement on your link:
I don’t know how you or the author, if someone else, came up with a number that high. I do know that it is phrased in an anti-American manner.