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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: SilentZ who wrote (750185)10/29/2013 3:05:01 PM
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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.
The primary reason for those 0.5% losing their existing plans is that they aren't comprehensive (i.e. expensive) enough to meet the ObamaCare requirements (and of course don't meet the grandfathering requirement). Their costs are going up.

Meanwhile, the sudden increase in demand for health services will obviously cause prices to go up. I vaguely remember some provisions in ObamaCare to try and control those prices, but I think they will be woefully inadequate, especially since the whole health care structure in America is incredibly complex.

That means we all will end up paying more for ObamaCare.

Answer this for me. Why else do you think a primary goal is to try and get the so-called "Young Invincibles" to sign up for health insurance that most of them feel they won't need? It's to offset the costs of the less-than-healthy new patients coming into the system.

I've already posted one example of this assumption not holding in a California-based experiment. Kind of silly to ignore that lesson and believe that health care costs will simply go down thanks to the ObamaCare mandate.

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