You are making two different points here and neither addresses the comment to which I replied. Back to it. Right now the citizenry support Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and so on, programs which fund all of us or which redistribute wealth. Whatever the reasons.
As for the reactions to the ACA, that raises different questions. The healthy young are not being asked to provide some support to unhealthy folk; they are being told they must have health insurance or pay a fine as a way for their dollars to help the unhealthy. Not the narrative I would have chosen if I were asked but the one given. So, should lots of the young refuse to buy health insurance, it will not be a choice against providing some support for the unhealthy but rather a much more narrow one, in which they decide they don't really need it. Again, I think the Dems and the Obama administration made a political/cultural mistake here.
As for the outcome(s), I really have no idea. Far too many balls in the air to argue that catching only one or dropping only one determines the outcome. We are, however, passing a very major turning point in which some portion of the population is covered under the ACA and will resist giving it up. As that portion grows, the politics of all this are likely to change. |
