It would probably look more like "Medicaid for all", and the insurance companies would do just fine as claim processors for the government, just like they are doing now. (They process the Medicaid and Medicare claims for a fee)
If you want to be, press one. If you want not to be, press 2
Republicans are red, democrats are blue, neither of them, gives a flip about you.
FredHayek wrote: Accepting or excepting?
And despite the delay for the employer changes, the general public will be figuring it out before November 2014. LJ is predicting that the House could go back to the Dems in 2014. I think Obama could take worse losses in both the House and Senate than in 2010. And it won't be a radicalized grass root TEA Party doing it, it will be middle Americans losing their healthcare.
One third of Americans getting screwed.
In spite of all the lies to the contrary the tea party is not radical. It is middle America. That is why the dems and the pubs hate and fear it. It is a threat to the political class. No amount of lies or gallons of koolaid will change that.
But it's so much easier for the archers and LJ's of the world to recycle images of a few nuts who only represent themselves. It's too bad the biggest roadblock to real change are the lifer republicans who fear losing their jobs. Dems are going to be hurt by Obamacare so maybe some of the republican cowards will feel safe to do the right thing as public opinion starts to line up with tea party ideas of holding on to more liberty.
They need to feel scared not safe for them to do anything. I do not recall where I read this (so I must by lying, LOL) but the RNC will be targeting teepers during primary season. Many people I know will not be donating to the party just to individual candidates.
Again, all citizens had to do back when the law was being debated was add up the pieces.
It was simple. Go to your kitchen table. Clear it off.
Take two simple documents.
1. Your current insurance policy.
2. The ACA as proposed.
Simply review each document and if you find even one portion of one sentence of your policy that has something that would be required to change due to the ACA, your policy was obviously going to become illegal and be cancelled.
They had computers back in 2009, one could have taken the two documents, scanned them and used some software to compare them for issues. The software does not have to be that thorough, it only has to find one conflict and then you would have known your policy was going to be cancelled.
All practical realism aside. People knew this was going to happen.
Plus to be fair, one has to publish more data. When the promise that you could keep any plan (that was still legal - obviously, like obviously obviously), people were on a plan. How many people being dropped today picked up their plan in the last 4 years (this these are new plans, not the ones you were promised you could keep if they were still legal). I think I have been through 4-5 different companies since the promise was made, so the promise does not even apply to me and likely of those complaining. Esp those in the ind market, they likely change more often than others.
So how many of the 93 million have picked up their plan since the promise? Even better, how many picked up their plans since the ACA was passed and actually available for review? My bet is that this would disqualify many of the 93 million from the gripe group. They actually bought plans that one could have easily seen were going to be cancelled due being in conflict with the upcoming requirements. How many of them asked their insurer when they purchased, because they know damn well the the insurers can cancel plans they sell, the plans are theirs.
I still think the law, is bad, illegal and will result in much pain. But in the process of trying to get rid of it, don't use the same kind of marketing that brought it here in the first place....deception.
And what worries me most about the ACA is how this administration seems to be more about good intentions than actual competence. It is like the guy who promises to fix your car for half price but you see him taking weeks longer than expected and actually doing more damage. The old system wasn't perfect but it worked for most of us. Prices were going up? Of course, you were getting better drugs, more technology, and living longer. Now I fear we are going to start seeing medical care wait times go up, many of the good care will not be permitted under ACA plans and a two tier system of the rich being able to get the good care and the rest shunted off to the website.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
But it's so much easier for the archers and LJ's of the world to recycle images of a few nuts who only represent themselves. It's too bad the biggest roadblock to real change are the lifer republicans who fear losing their jobs. Dems are going to be hurt by Obamacare so maybe some of the republican cowards will feel safe to do the right thing as public opinion starts to line up with tea party ideas of holding on to more liberty.
