Force productive citizens to subsidize healthcare for deadbeats, illegal aliens, and other assorted malcontents, while paying higher premiums for their own healthcare, which is already overpriced?
Making insurance MORE expensive and REQUIRING everyone to give money to FOR-PROFIT insurance companies was a good idea? LOLThank God this piece of crap is going to be struck down. Back to the drawing board, Democrat insurance industry pawns. I can't believe people fall for this feel-good crap.
And here we see the typical conservative's understanding of the mandate.
What's wrong about it? I'm sorry I don't share your sense of responsibility to people who I don't even know. I guess I am a meanie.
What's wrong about it? I'm sorry I don't share your sense of responsibility to people who I don't even know. I guess I am a meanie.
You can't see the forest for the trees, can you sport? Its about making those people you don't even know pay into the system instead of getting the care free from you like they do now.
The 2% of Americans the mandate will actually affect are the deadbeats you hate.
It's an issue of which system costs me more. Obamacare takes a bigger cut from my paycheck. The people who don't pay should be denied service.
If they want healthcare, they should pay for it (like I do).
Remind me. Who are the 2%?
It's an issue of which system costs me more. Obamacare takes a bigger cut from my paycheck. The people who don't pay should be denied service.
If they want healthcare, they should pay for it (like I do).
YES! And if it takes more from my paycheck, I can't support charity as much. Get the apparatchiks out of my paycheck.
The mandate is to make sure my heart operation costs four times as much while deadbeats fuck freely with free penis erection pills.
The law also capped for profit insurers profits, FWIW, and also introduced a very rigorous rate review and approval process. In addition, the law provided for 3 risk adjustment mechanisms, 2 that last for 3 years and one this is permanent, to help mitigate the degree of risk exposure insurers are expected to see. Most actuaries acknowledge that these 3 programs are severely inadequate to protect against significant financial losses coming, even with the mandate. The products insurers sell are also highly regulated under the new law as are where and how they can be sold. Its no picnic in the real world.
I’m not arguing for or against the law, just noting that it’s not a financial jack pot for insurers. In fact, it’s quite the opposite and most insurers, net of the risk adjusters, are preparing to lose a lot of money in the short term (2014-2018) before they level off and get normal risk returns, 3% to 5%.
Note that insurer stocks are going UP as a result of this week's proceedings.
I don't support charity at all and I am not afraid to admit it. I'm not one of those libertarian fools who believes the free market and charity will take care of the lazy. I just don't care. As soon as we stop holding their hands, they'll start taking care of themselves.