Active Users:859 Time:07/11/2025 06:47:39 AM
Back to Messageboard Post New Thread Search Help Stats Rules
it wasn't a bone HyogaRott Send a noteboard - 10/03/2017 02:30:00 PM

View original post
It is basically a hole in a bucket. As long as money is going in faster than it is leaking out it will work. The overall medical cost of people who could afford insurance but are not getting it then get something like cancer is a pretty small percentage of the over all medical cost in this country and it won't crash the system. The mandate was at bone they threw to the insurance companies to get them to sign on and was more about forcing young healthy people to subsidize older less healthy people than it was about pre-existing conditions.

With no pre-existing exclusions, a mandate to purchase is the only thing that stops everyone from waiting until they are in the back of an ambulance to get insurance. The provision is essentially there to keep the insurance companies from challenging the entire ACA in court (and winning) under restraint of trade and them not being subject to the interstate commerce clause as they have in the past. The most recent SCotUS precedent on the topic has insurance being State regulated.

Reply to message
Obama care repeal and replace Urza - 07/03/2017 12:33:18 AM 933 Views
The new House version looks fine..... Anonymous2000 - 07/03/2017 03:12:55 AM 688 Views
They do expand health saving accounts *NM* random thoughts - 07/03/2017 11:27:50 AM 329 Views
A few questions - I've been doing a lot of reading on it but it's a hugely complicated matter. Legolas - 07/03/2017 08:09:57 PM 701 Views
The "accross state lines" buzz is a farce. Do YOU want a PCP that is 800 miles away? *NM* HyogaRott - 07/03/2017 09:18:57 PM 365 Views
That isn't what it means at all. LiterateDog - 08/03/2017 03:21:27 AM 685 Views
But physician networks are local HyogaRott - 09/03/2017 04:25:33 PM 685 Views
Of course they are. LiterateDog - 09/03/2017 04:52:31 PM 589 Views
And your insurance premium would be WAY higher than it currently is with a native MA company. HyogaRott - 10/03/2017 02:21:21 PM 644 Views
The risk can be spread across networks, as it is today. Sareitha Sedai - 10/03/2017 02:33:38 PM 708 Views
It only looks that way from the outside. HyogaRott - 10/03/2017 04:24:25 PM 652 Views
We could have benefited from reviews by Romneycares victims before taking it national Joel - 14/03/2017 02:17:28 PM 830 Views
One breakdown nossy - 07/03/2017 10:25:12 AM 807 Views
My head is going to blow up from reading all this news nossy - 07/03/2017 09:16:22 PM 855 Views
From the little I understand... Legolas - 07/03/2017 10:13:01 PM 710 Views
They can make it work and will just rasie rates random thoughts - 08/03/2017 03:52:50 PM 639 Views
That's the point though, isn't it? nossy - 08/03/2017 04:35:56 PM 670 Views
but it was the young that made it work and they are already opting out random thoughts - 10/03/2017 02:56:50 PM 616 Views
it wasn't a bone HyogaRott - 10/03/2017 02:30:00 PM 746 Views
The problem withthat argument is it ignore human nature random thoughts - 10/03/2017 03:18:06 PM 704 Views
I'm not ignoring it, I am illustrating it. HyogaRott - 10/03/2017 04:39:45 PM 649 Views
When you cut cancer out of a body, you don't replace it with something else... HyogaRott - 07/03/2017 11:34:31 AM 773 Views
You know what I would propose? Tom - 08/03/2017 03:06:27 PM 715 Views
decoupling health insurance from employment eliminates an existing subsidy damookster - 08/03/2017 03:25:27 PM 640 Views
So what? Tom - 08/03/2017 03:53:29 PM 659 Views
I wasn't raising it as a show-stopper, because obviously it isn't one. damookster - 08/03/2017 04:17:47 PM 694 Views
As a self-employed individual, I have little sympathy for extending employer-based care Tom - 09/03/2017 03:41:59 AM 665 Views
And it has caused the wage level to stagnate since then. Sareitha Sedai - 10/03/2017 02:35:12 PM 672 Views
It is was of the many broken parts of our health care system random thoughts - 10/03/2017 03:20:19 PM 655 Views
Looks good to me random thoughts - 08/03/2017 03:58:48 PM 664 Views
This would solve a lot of the problems with cost and access. Sareitha Sedai - 08/03/2017 04:11:15 PM 714 Views
Interesting. Wasn't expecting that, though it looks good to me. *NM* Legolas - 08/03/2017 07:17:01 PM 294 Views
Some serious problems HyogaRott - 09/03/2017 04:49:35 PM 712 Views
How do we elect you Tom? This is really good stuff. *NM* Urza - 09/03/2017 05:25:56 PM 435 Views
Looks like Republicans have TWICE the votes they need to kill it (in either chamber) Joel - 14/03/2017 01:50:35 PM 1527 Views
As to healthcare itself, how are there no good options? Joel - 14/03/2017 01:59:17 PM 727 Views
I'm glad you asked... Urza - 14/03/2017 02:36:40 PM 764 Views
I have heard it said that "the perfect is the enemy of the good" Joel - 14/03/2017 03:03:34 PM 740 Views
the reason why Canadians with money seek treatment in the US is not bureaucracy damookster - 14/03/2017 04:00:09 PM 617 Views
Back to Messageboard Post New Thread Search Help Stats Rules

Reply to Message

Block Quote Paragraph Quote
Formatting
Smiley Codes