To my liberal friends, how is this thing supposed to work? I see little that will cause more people or employers to ensure. The penalties associated with the individual mandate are not high enough and the 8% tax would seem to be inadequate to incentivize those employers who currently do not provide insurance to provide it or to generate sufficient income to cover those uninsured persons. The limitations on insurer underwriting and actuarially determined premiums seems certain to raise premiums and the mandated coverage of preexisting conditions seems to create an incentive for persons to wait to insure until they need it.
If this is a first step toward single payer coverage, it seems to be a step calculated to screw up health care so much that single payer begins to look more palatable?
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You pretty much hit on it mr. Rick. The worst kept secret is that Single Payer is the endgame. Always has been. The State is god for these people.
Exactly. this mandate/incentive/'punishment' business makes no sense.
Things were much better when religions owned most hospitals but, the war on religion continues to victimize us all.
I'm sure the CBO is mortified that they forgot to ask you first.
IF I thought the CBO had answered these questions, I wouldn't ask.
In case your questions aren't just rhetorical:
http://www.kff.org/healthreform/basics.cfm#explaininghealthcarereformseries
My question was not rhetorical, but I found no answers there.
First the reforms aren't going to do anything, then they're going to do so much as to make single payer more palatable. Makes sense.
Your liberal friends don't know how this is supposed to work either. We wanted socialized healthcare, remember? Not the worthless lose-lose compromise this became.
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