Comments on: Why ObamaCare Won’t Work

By: Vast Variety

Vast Variety — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:29:58 +0000

As long as insurance companies and/or government, stand between you and your doctor then there is no real reform.

By: crazypolitico

crazypolitico — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:10:31 +0000

Tajti, according to the house bill the “public option” will only be open to those who’s employer doesn’t provide coverage or who work at a company with less than 100 employees or are self employed. Additionally, there are income restrictions on it.

So to get it you apply through the exchange. The exchange decideds if you have to get a private plan, can be on the public option, or should be covered by your state medicaid plan.

The system that requires you to have insurance is easy to game. You buy a policy report the number on your taxes. Keep it a few months (to make sure you aren’t audited) then drop the policy. If you get sick later in the year, call the exchange, get your coverage, then see a doctor. After you are taken care of, drop the policy until next April when you file your taxes.

By: tajitj

tajitj — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:47:28 +0000

Now how does the government plan get triggered, do people have to apply for it? If they make Medicaid pick up more of the bill for people without insurance, then there is absolutely ZERO reason for the average Joe to have any form of insurance.

If he gets a long term illness he just applies for insurance and gets it. If he cuts off his hand from a table saw accident, since he don’t have insurance and makes $35k a year the government picks it up through Medicaid.

Is that where we are with this?

By: Derek

Derek — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:47:29 +0000

“You can pay me now, or you can pay me later.”

Man, that was a prophetic commercial.

By: John Burke

John Burke — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:22:01 +0000

Agreed that there is nothing rational going on here. Those Demo pols who actually think about this stuff are likely more than consoled by the fact that if premiums shoot up for a shrinking base of insured, they can attack the insurers for profiteering and increase the penalties. Ultimately, as it becomes obvious that pay-ins are not equal to pay-outs in either the private or public components of the system, there is always a tax increase to fall back on.

By: James Young

James Young — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:04:42 +0000

Why should rational economic analysis have anything to do with Democrats’ social-engineering efforts?

And, of course, there’s the myth that any of this is about increasing the quality or availability of health care.