re: Trump says he WILL ask Supreme Court to strike down Obamacare

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Obamacare that are extremely popular i.e allowing kids up to 26 to stay on their parents plan,

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This is partially what makes family coverage unaffordable.

I could only support it if, the parents still claim their children as dependents if they are disabled with no working income or a college student with little to no income.

Otherwise, make them or their employer buy insurance if they earn enough or check for eligibility for Medicaid.

I can remember when colleges had their own health insurance student fees that could be used as basic coverage to see a doctor on campus and limited hospital coverage.

The supreme court won't rule on it before the election so this really doesn't have much political downside

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Otherwise, make them or their employer buy insurance if they earn enough or check for eligibility for Medicaid.

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That’s the fundamental problem. What recent college grad starting out is going to want to pay a hundred or two hundred dollars a month for something they won’t even use. Insurance markets are viable when they have people who don’t use the product pay into the risk pool. If you give a person in their twenties or thirties (ie the people least likely to use the product) a choice they will more often choose to forego purchasing it. That’s the fundamental problem Republicans have because they repealed the individual mandate and don’t want to pass a plan that has one but cannot find a practical solution to force young healthy people into the buying health insurance.

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Roberts is the 2nd worst appointment by a Republican in my lifetime.

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And in retrospect, looking back on W’s presidency from the perspective of 10+ years, it was no accident. It was exactly what W set out to do.

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That’s the fundamental problem Republicans have because they repealed the individual mandate and don’t want to pass a plan that has one but cannot find a practical solution to force young healthy people into the buying health insurance.

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So the answer was to get parents to buy it.

I am just sorry the insurance game is a game.

You have hospitals that charge on paper outrageous rates to get to a deductible faster, so the patient has a higher burden to pay out of pocket. Then once the deductible is reached, the hospital collects pennies on the dollar because their negotiated rates are much much lower.

Hospital wins because the patient is paying more.

Insurance wins because they payout less.

Patient loses because he can't afford both.