# This is Boehner's shutdown **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 3, 2013, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-boehners-shutdown/670261 "2013-10-03T12:06:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 142
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2013, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-boehners-shutdown/670261/142 "2013-10-07T20:51:19Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > You simply assert that costs will go down with no evidence. Several posters already reported, not on this thread but on the same Elections forum, how the new law is showing the excess costs due to the relative lack of competition in the old system. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=16731292&postcount=558](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=16731292&postcount=558) > [@What is your ongoing opinion of the Affordable Care Act? (Title Edited)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-ongoing-opinion-of-the-affordable-care-act-title-edited/647561/560): > > The ‘bronze plan’ is $4214 a year or $351 a month, exactly what I pay now until the subsidy is subtracted. The plan would then be $3709, or 309 a month. > Seems like not that big a deal, right? > But what is most interesting is that the price I pay now for insurance is not the whole cost of my coverage. My employer picks up the rest, like most employers do. The cost of my insurance is actually $17,124.82 a year. > So where did all the money go? What happened to that other $13,000? Elsewhere it was noticed that in one state the plans for people working on their own showed a reduction of more than $700, you bet that a lot of would be entrepreneurs looked at the numbers and decided to stay put in their lousy works, that is BTW called Job Lock, and it means less freedom for Americans and one has to remark that many new jobs (a new secretary, people working for a start-up, etc) are also never coming in that kind of environment. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-boehners-shutdown/670261)._