re: Obamacare Failure

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it's performing quite well

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You can say that again.

I'll be pissed if Trump succeeds in taking away my health care

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What's best for you may not be what's best for be country. That's wrong with our country. We look at what best for the country through what's best for us

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By that "logic" the people with PECs should sacrifice for the good of their fellow citizens and pay premiums commensurate with their actuarial risk. Sandra Fluke should pay for her own birth control pills so working families can have decent coverage. People with subsidized plans should pay the full price to give the rest of us a break.

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It's not my fault that your news sources lie to you.

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Yep, Fox/Breitbart stole all our mail and replaced it with forged letters from our insurers either raising our premiums or cancelling our plans altogether. I fell for of until you, in your infinite wisdom, revealed the truth.

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The plan you're purchasing now has no annual or lifetime cap, EHBs, and other things your previous plan didn't have.

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This argument is dumb because the doubled premiums completely destroys the value of the added benefits for the vast majority of the people in the US. Before the ACA, I tailor the "EHBs" to fit my life, but now everyone MUST have everybody else's needs covered in addition to what each individual wants.

So...

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What's best for you may not be what's best for be country. That's wrong with our country. We look at what best for the country through what's best for us

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Is out the window with the fact that ACA helps a small percentage of the country. The ACA is bad for the vast majority and is bad for working class individuals who provide their own insurance.

And if you work in healthcare, you know there are most certainly "limits" to coverage.

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A couple in their 60s should realize that they are at risk for serious illness.

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Yep, so let's all enjoy the cost of providing care to those at higher risk in their "working" age even before they retire and go on MC and we continue to pay for them. Instead of those individuals buying a plan that may cover what they need at an age that they can afford the increased premiums since they are no longer raising kids, shouldn't have enormous debt unless they were irresponsible and may even have saved money for the expense of healthcare in a HSA.

The ACA tries to solve a small problem of "the uninsured" using ERs for their healthcare with sweeping legislation that drastically raises premiums for the working class. The ACA is a failure already whether it has imploded yet or will ever implode. We all know that the wonderful people in DC will bail out entitlements until the country and our economy resembles the rest of the socialized western countries now clamoring for cheap labor from 3rd world economies because they don't complain about the subsidized healthcare and will continue to vote for liberals to get more entitlements.

Just keep killing the middle class.

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The only way it fails is Republican sabotage.

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FALSE!

Actually, the only way it succeeds is Republican sabotage.

If Republicans would not sabotage the Constitution and instead follow the law to the letter, Obamacare would not last one more cycle.

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BamaAtl

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Thus far Trump has elected to continue extra-Constitutional funding of obamacare. It's something you are either unaware of or willing to lie about. As we've had this discussion several times, the latter seems more probable. But once again . . .

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On May 12, 2016 the administration lost a case in United States District Court, U.S. House of Representatives v. Burwell, in which Judge Rosemary Collyer ruled that payments to insurers for cost-sharing subsidies without an express appropriation from Congress violated the Constitution. And recently, multiple insurers have filed suit against the government in the Court of Federal Claims, seeking payment for unpaid “risk corridor” funds, designed to cushion insurers from incurring major losses, or major gains, during the exchanges’ first three years.

What exactly do all these Obamacare lawsuits entail? And how much taxpayer money is the Obama administration shoveling to insurers in an attempt to keep them participating in its moribund exchanges? Herewith, a 101 tutorial on the more than $170 billion in Obamacare bailouts.

LINK

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Extra-Constitutional despite 2 SCOTUS cases...suuuuure. Or are you unaware of that?!

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No. Again you are either painfully unaware of current status in the courts, or are being willfully ignorant.