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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Sam who wrote (237876)11/15/2013 12:17:43 AM
From: neolib  Read Replies (2) of 543632
 
The real question is why no one in this debacle can actually provide numbers to back this up:

You may find better, more affordable coverage with a different insurer

The insurance companies have all the data needed to actually verify or refute this. They could compute for each of their existing customers what their current costs are vs what their replacement costs would be and see if "more affordable coverage" actually is available. The fact that nobody has bothered to do this is yet another example of how incompetent the whole exercise has been.

In fact, what someone should have done was look at how affordable insurance would have been under the old policies if the same $ of subsidies were handed out.

And acid test would be to let everyone sign up for the "bad" old policies, give them the same $ of subsidies, and pay for pre-existing conditions straight from tax dollars. I'm willing to bet that would be significantly cheaper than the current ACA mess.
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