I'm not comfortable with it... because increases immediately after were very high, and are now getting very high again.
The ACA required a whole lot of participation, and it isn't really getting it. The increase of 85% coverage to 90% is pretty pathetic when you consider that they mandated it by law and invested trillions of dollars
Seriously, y'all. Just say it. If you don't want more, less affluent people to have access to health care in preference to wealthier people having slightly cheaper--but still escalating--health care costs, just say it. That's what the status quo ante was. If that's what you want, just own it.
That analogy pretends as if we had a sound and stable healthcare system before, one that adequately served the needs of all citizens. But we did not.
A better analogy would be: if a band-aid doesn't treat a bullet-wound, you don't shoot the would again for good measure; you go out and seek better triage.
"For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal."
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WTF is wrong with some people?
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I'm gonna get real for a second. In the first few years of the ACA, I was a relatively well-off net payer into the system. Then my wife lost her job and my business suffered some hard times that necessitated my dropping employee coverage, which included my own. For the last year we've (the wife and our 5 kids) survived with the help of a subsidized policy through the ACA. Concurrently with that, my sister (who is a self-employed starving-artist type, married to a private-school teacher) had a child diagnosed with a brain tumor. That kid has currently had two brain surgeries and is now in a 6-month chemo regimen. Without the ACA they'd be bankrupt and out of their home. Without the ACA my family would be without health insurance, since we make too much to qualify for CHIP and Medicaid, but not enough to afford market prices for health insurance. So, yannow, sorry I don't feel your pain. When I was paying market rates for coverage, I didn't resent it.
DaneHill (02-23-2017), Hawk (02-24-2017), jpx7 (02-23-2017), The Chosen One (02-23-2017)
Glad you were able to make it through so rough times.
My family is fine. We have resources that mean that we aren't going to be on the streets. But that's because we're, I mean Ms. Julio and myself, fortunate enough to come from affluent families who are going to make sure that we aren't eating out of dumpsters because we can't pay our bills. That being said, I have a perspective that includes folks who aren't as lucky as I am. Someone in my position who wasn't in the lucky sperm club like me would be doomed.
I empathize for your story... but I'm looking at the bigger picture. The ACA system - like SS and Medicare, is not sustainable and will not have sufficient funds to cover it over the long term. Then we will have catastrophe at a wide level.
We do have a problem that health insurance is so expensive. Why do you think that is?
Interesting question. Who's benefiting from the current system?
jpx7 (02-23-2017)
I mean, I'm all most afraid to ask what your favored solution would be, but when you cut through all the bull**** the ACA question is do you think that the relatively more well-off among us should subsidize health care cost for the relatively less well-off.
Unless and until you can suggest a more realistic dynamic for widely affordable and available healthcare, that seems to be the question.
jpx7 (02-23-2017)
And, if the deafening silence coming from the party in power is any indication, there isn't much of a satisfying answer to that question.
Ok. Let's say not a human right. Is it good politics and good policy to have good health care affordable to more people?
jpx7 (02-23-2017)