Really? Do please tell us more. How does one persuade someone who does not even know how to say something other than “Go fuck yourself”, often even with the N-word appended? What approach would you suggest that *would *get through to the people whose support you offer unreservedly?
You don’t negotiate with terrorists, so I’ve heard said.
A second judge has ruled against the administration in this nonsense subsidy argument. Lo & behold, he’s a GOP appointee from Oklahoma.
Interesting.
Hey, you guys remember how the ACA was an epic “fuck you” to the younger generation, and how 20-somethings were going to ignore expanded health insurance in record numbers to trigger an insurance industry “death spiral?”
Well, as with literally EVERY SINGLE anti-ACA prediction, this one has been certifiably proven to be bullshit.
Man, no wonder the Republicans fought so hard against it. Their worst fears are being realized – the ACA is really working, and really working well. In time this will be reflected in the polling.
They really screwed up labeling it ‘Obamacare’. Obama’s going to be the Democratic Reagan for a generation – maybe longer, considering how young he is.
In time. LOL. First you have to weather the next round of cancellations. But don’t worry, after that setback, popularity for ACA is right around the corner!
Grasp at any straws you can. The ACA is not going away, and every year is going to see the numbers get better and better, in general.
Let’s see what happens when the Democrats fix it first.
You’ve also still got to figure out how to bail out the insurance companies, who have apparently been undercharging.
BUt really, there won’t be a bailout, so premiums will very soon start to represent the actual cost of covering this risk pool.
The insurers are losing money. Thus my argument that they are undercharging.
But since we have two posters on record as saying they are doing so well, let’s all agree to repeal the risk corridors.
Some insurers set premiums too high and have to rebate, others set them too low and need to raise them a bit. The risk corridors dampen the impact of either extreme (and also provide incentive to participate in the open exchanges). Why do you think they should be repealed?
The rebates are unrelated to whether or not a company is charging correctly for risk. A company can simultaneously be undercharging yet spending too much on overhead, so they’d be losing money and having to pay rebates.
In any case, if all or most of the insurers are losing money, it will take Congressional action to approve a bailout. Which won’t happen.
You mean the legal risk corridors that were a part of the law ITSELF? While we’re at it, let’s go ahead and repeal the permanent risk corridors in Medicare Part D.
In all seriousness, I don’t understand the sudden outrage over the risk corridor program AT ALL. I mean, damn, it isn’t as if they appeared overnight out of nowhere; no, literally EVERYBODY has known about them for the entire four years of the ACA’s existence, and yet only now have they blossomed into a GOP socialist nightmare. It’s all horse shit.
And for crying out loud, they’re set to expire in a couple of years anyway, so if they’re really that awful, just bite your fuckin’ tongue & bear with it until Obama leaves office.
But let’s not kid ourselves. The GOP has no damn problem with the risk corridors that exist in fucking PERPETUITY in Medicare Part D, so all of this faux outrage is precisely that. Stupid bullshit hypocritical nonsense that isn’t going anywhere.
I’m sure the Republican alternative bill will fix that. Right, adaher?
I think that we can all agree by this point - or at least we should be in agreement by now - that the GOP as an institution does not actually do health care policy. The only times when they pretend to do it are when they come up with hypothetical policy “alternatives” (which, mind you, will only EVER exist as concepts - the party would never actually enact any of these policies as law) as a mechanism to criticize or altogether stop DEMOCRATS from actually doing health care policy.
While I’m at it, I’d like to introduce you guys to the 2017 Project. It’s stupid function and purpose is plainly evident by its title, but if you’re in the mood for a fair bit of shits & giggles, feel free to peruse the website.
Where do you think the last two big expansions of health care before ACA came from? The Republicans. Medicare Part D and SCHIP both came out of a Republican Congress.
And in Virginia, Ed Gillespie is shaking up that Senate race by rolling out his own replacement proposal:
The prediction has already been made that the RNC, and therefore adaher, will be claiming ACA as their own by the next presidential election. Looks like it’s happening ahead of schedule.
But … but … the free market is *always *more efficient than the government, isn’t it?