I would need to buy a new iPhone once a month in order to wastefully spend the money I use for my insurance premiums. And it would need to be a really good iPhone, too-- a 7Plus with lots of memory.
Of course the new plan sucks, the good plan that conservatives worked on for years and years was compromised when the Democrats coopted it and called it ObamaCare.
I think the new plan might cause a cascading disaster through the insurance and health care industry. Ill be able to keep my insurance as I have a full pay zero deductible ACA plan ( a lot of posters here are disingenuous when they complain about the deductibles on ACA plans, if you don’t qualify for subsidies there are lots of plan options. I selected the no deductible plan for this year because I’ll have to have cataract surgery twice.)
But my insurer is a start-up company that was formed post-ACA to handle the new business generated by the ACA. I selected the plan because it was better and cheaper than the standard plans, which I also looked at - I had lots of choices under ACA.
But what’s going to happen if a large percentage of their subscribers drop coverage at the same time when if they stop getting those government subsidies that make it affordable for them? That’s potentially going to leave a lot of doctors and hospitals in the lurch for payments on services they’ve already provided - if my insurer is like most businesses they’re counting on this month’s premiums to pay the bills that came in last month.
They could always sue the patients since everyone has to sign that piece of paper promising to pay if their insurer doesn’t. But good luck getting blood from a stone, this could cause a crisis that spirals through the health care industry. I’m thinking the most noxious part of the new plan, the tax breaks for high paid (500,000+ a year) health insurance execs is some sort of bribe to get these guys to shut up about how toxic the plan will be for the health care industry.