I haven't read such Apologist scatology for ObamaCare as you have demonstrated even on fora that is largely DEMOCRAT.
But I'm going to shred your vain efforts of justifying this obamination of an Act because it tramples liberty and the Constitution in intrusive and vile ways no government effort has to date.
I don't look at the "access issue" - the ostensible reason for the ACA - as a matter of mainly benefitting those with poor lifestyle choices.
Of course you don't. It doesn't make your position look valiant and sanguine enough, even though the entire Act was sold to insure the 16-33 million so-called uninsured that were largely made up of low-income/bad lifestyle/illegals/immigrant non-citizen choice people. So instead you want us to believe that a majority of noble folks down on their luck have benefited from our tax subsidy to get them an insurance card which ultimately took all of our existing plans that we liked, and turned them into crap overnight or dumped their policyholders altogether because of this behemoth. All done in order to cover pre-existing conditions and medical procedures we have no use for. Notwithstanding piling most of them into the nearly-bankrupt Medicaid system.
The reason for the ACA was as I stated earlier, but you ignored: to COLLAPSE THE EXISTING HEALTH INSURANCE INDUSTRY AND FORCE THE POPULATION TO ACCEPT SINGLE PAYER/GOVERNMENT RUN HEALTHCARE.
The reason so many lack insurance is because the system is employer-based.
So what? Why is that a bad thing? It worked just fine until government meddling and ultimately ObamaCare. When I was an independent contractor I had no insurance - and paid cash or made payment arrangements for health issues I had taken care of. When self-employed - I did the same thing until I was large enough to enter a pool with other small businesses. it was just fine until your precious ACA came along.
Folks who work for small employers, or those who are laid off in their fifties in the wake of the recession, are not folks without virtue.
Who says they are without virtue? What the hell does that have to do with anything? You sound just like a speechwriter for Hillary or Obama with this crap. You think playing on the emotions by championing the downtrodden everyman due to those dastardly small businesses who discriminate against fifty-year olds is going to persuade us to your position? Pathetic.
The ACA has helped some people, none more so than the cohort between 55 and 65, too young for Medicare but out of a job, but old enough to start developing medical problems.
Cite your source of these statistics to back up the claim of all these pre-SoSec beneficiaries being saved by ObamaCare. It's not that I don't believe you - it's just that I don't believe you.
Unfortunately, the ACA was sold with the promise that if you liked your plan you could keep it, and as your experience shows that promise was most cruelly denied to the self-employed. More copays and higher premiums to utilize a narrower network of providers.
Yeah, it's called The Big Lie to Push Tyranny - and here you are defending it, citing all these wonderful things this tyranny is doing for the noble fifty-plus crowd who got laid off.
Hopefully reform is on the way.
Right. You want us to 'reform' tyranny, make it more palpable and tolerable rather than to get rid of it altogether.
We don't want ObamaCare reformed - WE WANT IT GONE.
The insurance market for health costs should function more like the insurance market for other risks.
Let the professionals and businesses who make up that industry determine themselves how their markets should function.
But you won't. All Statists and tyrants like to tell everyone else what to do - just like you demonstrate.
Give folks choices to decide for themselves what risks to insure.
If you truly believed that at all, then you would be championing getting government OUT of healthcare, OUT of the insurance industry. But you are not. Just the opposite in fact. You told us that government intrusion and decision making for us little people is "here to stay".
What interests me at the moment is what might the impact on the market be of the stop loss insurance model that businesses use applied to individual health coverage. I think it would encourage the majority of health care purchases to be cash transactions without the need to even involve an insurance company.
We don't need government for any of that. We do not need your precious ACA for any of that.
