Comments on: ‘Affordable’ Care Act hikes rates for Californians

By: Bill - San Jose

Bill - San Jose — Sun, 10 Nov 2013 16:13:21 +0000

The chickens come home to roost. I applaud what is happening so as to actually force the clerks of the world to wake up.

Hahaha.

And yes, I have not been able to hire anyone full time in fear of what is coming with this new “new”.

By: Queeg

Queeg — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 07:18:22 +0000

Billions subject to that ” giant sucking sound”.

Sad!

By: Rex the Wonderdog!

Rex the Wonderdog! — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 06:58:06 +0000

In reply to NTHEOC. NTHEOC says: Private sector corporate greed ruined the health industry so blaming Obama for trying to fix the problem and do something about is not the answer. Public employee GREED, specifically firewhiner greed, is the major cause of the poor not having healthcare, as the REGRESSIVE taxes, like the sales tax, are used to fund the $200K life styles of the blue collar unskilled firewhiner jobs. Deflecting your scam on others will never work.

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 16:21:28 +0000

The problem with Obamacare is the democratic party sought to fix the wrong problem. You have a health delivery system whose costs are almost double what they are in any other industrialized nation. Obamacare simply expanded access to this inefficient and wasteful system by trying the transfer the cost, which is over $8K per person on average and come up with a method to make it more proportionate with income. It is at its heart a cost transfer system in the insurance market place. And its currently doing this first in the individual market, then it will move to the small business group market and eventually to the larger plans. Corporate America knows this and is likely working very hard on plans to bribe their elected representatives to mitigate the damage.

By: Hondo

Hondo — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 09:48:55 +0000

The problem with obamacare is the timing. Just as we are coming out of the big recession, in kicks these huge tax increases( thats what justice Roberts called them) that takes huge amounts of spending money out of Amerika’s pockets. Just as the housing market levels off, suddenly people have no excess money to by a house, or pay off their current one. Buying new cars or lots of Xmas presents is out of the question. And the next round of cuts from the insurance companies comes just as the 2014 election hits in next November. That’s when the employer mandate kicks in and we’re looking at close to 100million Americans will loose their health care they were promised by Obama. Close to 3 times as many people will lose their health care, compared to the amount Obamacare was supposed to cover in the first place. Obamacare may cause a net LOSS in covered Amerikans by the tune of over 60 million people. Instead of covering more people, Obamacare does just the opposite.
But don’t think the republicans can profit from this debacle. They will find a way to blame it on Ted Cruz( who has turned out to be 100% right when he tried to stop Obamacare).
Hondo……….

By: Ulysses Uhaul

Ulysses Uhaul — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 07:48:26 +0000

This will not end well……we all know it….they know it…..and Christmas shopping just around the corner…..

By: John Seiler

John Seiler — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 01:41:16 +0000

In reply to NTHEOC. NTHEOC: LOL. "pay a little more"? How about 41% more on average for all Americans. And you get a crummier health care plan that could kill you. Obamacare will bring down the Democratic Party next year. Not that the GOP deserves it. And look at the chart: It's another burden on young people, in addition to paying for Social Security, Medicare and absurd college debt. What kind of sick system puts massive financial burdens on young people, instead of allowing them to be free to marry and have kids?

By: John Seiler

John Seiler — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 01:32:57 +0000

In reply to Rex the Wonderdog!. Rex: It already blew out. The despots already canceled the plan I had and liked.

By: Rex the Wonderdog!

Rex the Wonderdog! — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 00:54:06 +0000

I still say we take this program for a test drive, try it out. If it blows up we dump it, if it runs OK keep it around a while. I normally would NOT want to get the gov involved, in anything, but our healthcare model is so upside down and sideways that the gov can only make it better IMO, because it cannot get any worse.

By: RT

RT — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 23:41:38 +0000

Wait until the federal subsidies tied to Obamacare end the entire system will crash causing yet another budget crisis.

Sad just sad.