re: More ACA cost problems

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Rex how about giving me an example of a single payer system you like.

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The UK's, France's, Australia's, Canada's... I prefer all those systems to the monstrosity we have here.

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Also--what was wrong in your opinion with Ryan's proposal to use vouchers instead of direct government purchase of health are services?

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I don't know enough about Ryan's proposal to comment on it. Maybe I did at one time, but it's largely forgotten... just as HE should be.

Not at all. Your topic is "More ACA cost problems." Other than a brief quote from a Hawaii article, your article is nothing but opinion.

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I don't religiously follow Rex's post history.

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You are missing out. Some of us have subscribed to the 'Rex Plan' on TD and for only $4 / month we get email alerts when he makes a post.

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your article is nothing but opinion.

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if it bans forwarding articles and opinion pieces,
there won't be much left of the poliboard.

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My main concern is when the single payer system fails, then what?

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Where has it failed? Name a major party candidate in UK, France, Australia, Canada, and the like who ran on a repeal platform. If one has existed I'm unaware of it... because it sure doesn't happen very much.

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the monstrosity we have here

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are you referring to the 2700 page ACA legislation?

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Where are the statistics wrong? Where are the conclusions based on the statistics wrong?

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The cost of the marketplace interface has very little to do with the long term costs and benefits of the ACA... and are easily fixable, anyway.

Healthcare.gov happens to be working quite well at the moment.

Point out a post to me.

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Where has it failed? Name a major party candidate in UK, France, Australia, Canada, and the like who ran on a repeal platform. If one has existed I'm unaware of it... because it sure doesn't happen very much.

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those countries combined don't equal the population of the US along with an open southern border. It would fail and the care we receive would decline as well.
What does govt run that doesn't fail, especially of this magnitude?

Nearly half a billion dollars in federal money has been spent developing four state Obamacare exchanges that are now in shambles — and the final price tag for salvaging them may go sharply higher.

Each of the states — Massachusetts, Oregon, Nevada and Maryland — embraced Obamacare, and each underperformed. All have come under scathing criticism and now face months of uncertainty as they rush to rebuild their systems or transition to the federal exchange.

The federal government is caught between writing still more exorbitant checks to give them a second chance at creating viable exchanges of their own or, for a lesser although not inexpensive sum, adding still more states to HealthCare.gov. The federal system is already serving 36 states, far more than originally anticipated

The $474 million spent by these four states includes the cost that officials have publicly detailed to date. It climbs further if states like Minnesota and Hawaii, which have suffered similarly dysfunctional exchanges, are added.

Their totals are just a fraction of the $4.698 billion that the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation calculates the federal government has approved for states since 2011 to help them determine whether to create their own exchanges and to assist in doing so. Still, the amount of money that now appears wasted is prompting calls for far greater accountability


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