They have a fix, but they refuse to pass it? :rolleyes:
C’mon now, I DO want to give adaher a bit of credit here: He has said - in no uncertain terms - that the GOP in Congress should suck it up & pass the two-sentence fix that would be required in the wake of a bad King decision. His party will never do that, of course, but he deserves credit for saying that it should.
He’s also said he wants the whole thing repealed. So?
Uh… I’d take the two-sentence fix.
How isthe government forcing everyone to get health insurance not considered a tax? I work my ass off to support my family but apparently I make so much money ($50k/yr) that the government thinks I can afford insurance that cost $500 a month with a $5000 deductible! So I pay $6k a yr in premiums for insurance that doesnt cover shit until I rack up $5k in medical expenses. Thanks Obamacare! Do I pay my mortgage on the house we live in or buy your fd up insurance while others only have to pay a fraction of what I do bc they dont make as much as I do! SOCIALISM AT ITS BEST! Putins pissed off bc Obamas a bigger communist then he is!
Ignoring the rest of the very loaded wording in your post, actually the Supreme Court has indeed agreed the mandate penalty is a tax:
If you instead mean the premiums themselves are a tax, well, they’re paid directly to an insurance company, and you get directly covered by a policy in return. That’s an odd definition of tax.
Well, then; I can stop paying having those Medicare taxes taken out of my paycheck.
“The Government”?
Oh, you mean the private insurance policies that are on the ACA exchange? Which is on the federal exchange, because Rick Perry decided he wasn’t going to play?
I question your costs. I looked up insurance for a family of three non-smokers (two 35-year-old adults, one 10-year-old kid), and found a silver plan with a $6k deductible for $315 a month. I found a gold plan with a $3250 family deductible for about $375 a month. The max out-of-pocket for the family is $7000.
Nearly 9 in 10 adult Americans now have healthcare coverage: http://www.aol.com/article/2015/04/13/survey-nearly-9-in-10-us-adults-now-have-health-insurance/21171426/?icid=maing-grid7|main5|dl3|sec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D642741
The GOP has put itself in a cage on the subject, now that it’s in place and popular as people “find out what’s in it”, per Pelosi’s often-deliberately-misrepresented prediction.
Their best hope now is that people just sorta forget the “repeal” part as much as they’ve forgotten the “replace” part of their battle cry. They have to even hope that the Supremes vote against them in the political King v. Burwell case, now that it’s a loser for them.
When it says 16 million, that’s new people who didn’t have cover before - does anyone know what the total uninsured was when Obama was re-lected?
This poll estimates the # of uninsured Americans, in total, from '09 to today. It has dropped rather rapidly since the various features of the ACA became “active”.
It’s okay, I found this which is quite helpful.
From a high of 18% to under 12%, and that’s without all States participating. Who thought they’d ever see that day …
That’s … basically … historic.
iiandyiiii - thanks for that. Beat me to it 
As Biden put it, “This is a big fucking deal.”
- long overdue and by no means perfect, but then again nothing the government
does is ever going to be the way we want it…however knowing people are now
insured medically and have access to doctors and treatments. with out being
turned away is something worth praising
Yep.
100 years from now this’ll still be in school texts books. It’s like it doesn’t matter what else he did his whole career, he won the Olympic Games.
A good summary over at Vox today.