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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (750177)	10/29/2013 2:32:58 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (3) of 1575341

>I'm not. In fact, I have always said that ObamaCare will succeed in reducing the number of people without health insurance. By how much no one really knows, but any reduction would be claimed as a success. I wouldn't claim a small drop with a huge increase in costs as a success. But that's not what I expect. >But I do dismiss the idiots who sold ObamaCare as a panacea for all of the problems with health care today, including those who believe that health care costs will be going down as a result of its passage. No one said it would be a panacea. I mean, I sure didn't. But it's an improvement. >Because overall, health care costs continue to go up, and arguably the rate of increase will now be higher thanks to more people being put into the system. Arguably. But we'll see. I don't expect the rate of increase to go up. >Those who have argued that costs are going down have tried to qualify their bullshit with one or more of the following: >- They only count those who couldn't afford or obtain insurance before, especially those with "pre-existing conditions." Who's doing that? That's priority #1, but it's not the end-all be-all. >- They count government subsidies as part of the "cost reduction." For individual people and families, yes. >- Those who are getting their current plans cancelled because of ObamaCare (up to 1.5M according to one article) don't matter because they're only 0.5% of the population. They matter! But that .5% losing their existing plans (the vast majority of whom will end up with other plans that they don't have to pay the difference for, if they're more expensive at all), pales in comparison to the 5-10% or even more that didn't have it before who get it. -Z

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