So in other words, it is completely fucktarded to use it as a comparison to Obamacare. Unless deciding not to live so you don't have to buy it is somehow a viable option.
No it's not, YOU DO NOT have to buy the Insurance, you ONLY pay a 1% fine on your taxes if you don't buy it. You have a choice. Most people who are bitching about this are insured anyway.
Not even: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-111hr3590enr/pdf/BILLS-111hr3590enr.pdf Searchable PDF. Even Dayton could navigate it. But y'all keep promulgating teh Stupid.
So who are these "experts"? Name them. Also, did you click on the link in that op-ed piece? Or have you just given up the "NOBODY KNOWS WHAT'S IN THE LEGISLATION!!1!" canard for a bunch of "See? I found this website that says my taxes are going up. They don't say how, but there's this website. They can't say anything on the Internet that isn't true."?
Hey, Lanz found it on a blog. Clearly it must be true. "They can't put anything on the Internet that isn't true."
Hey! This is the internet, right? Most...no ALL experts agree that I'm a the best cook in the world and animals like me.
What, they don't do that already? The only difference between the ACA and our previous system was that the cost of "high risk" patients was hidden - either because they were rushed to a hospital that couldn't refuse them treatment (and the public was billed anyway), or through the loss of economic throughput because workers are sick, or bankrupt from expensive medical treatments, or stuck in job lock. All this does is throw the reality of healthcare in people's faces, and frankly, if they don't like it then they should've supported public, universal health care.
How does that help you if you have a job today but are out of a job tomorrow? The IRS is going to go on what you made last year and hit you with a fine for not having something you no longer have a way to pay for.
Wrong. Forcing someone to pay for something is the same as forcing someone to labor for you. You know what forced labor is also called?
So has anybody made excuses for the Obamas not using Obamacare yet in this thread? I'm in the mood to watch some comical mental contortionism.
You know good and well that the President and Congress have PAID insurance. It wouldn't make sense. The same reason Boehner doesn't use it. I don't use it either because I have my OWN insurance.
So... they don't want "lower premiums"? I say if they think it's good enough for the rest of us, they need to DMV up their health insurance just like others are being forced to do.
I don't think we should really have to explain this 38 times, but once again, the premiums are not lower if you already have subsidized care. People with employer subsidized care, for example (ie most people) would not have reason to buy through the ACA marketplaces.
That's not at all relevant to my point, is it? If Obamacare was so spankin' wonderful, the people who passed it should have been the first ones to jump on it.
And as we all know, a law that's long must be bad! Because there's certainly nothing complex about health care.