Comments on: Study: ACA repeal would have big economic consequences without adequate replacement

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 29 Dec 2016 18:26:54 +0000

Why is no one talking about the thousands of summarily and illegally disenfranchised health insurance professionals whose hard earned renewal income was appropriated/eliminated with the implementation of the ACA? Will we all be re-instated with retro-active pay? Will it take a class action suit to correct and punish this crime?

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 29 Dec 2016 17:00:21 +0000

What’s missing in this analysis is that it assumes the ACA will not be replaced with anything. There are proposals that have been floated for people without employer coverage to receive tax credits in the neighborhood of $6-8K per year that can only be used for health coverage. I don’t know if this will cover those who obtained coverage through expansion of Medicaid but I suspect it will. I think Democrats knew there were shortcomings in the ACA which was probably best described in Bill Clinton’s rant about the perverse incentives in the cost of the coverage on the exchanges if you work hard http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/04/politics/bill-clinton-obamacare-craziest-thing/. They thought it would put pressure on Congress to come up with a single payer system, the ultimate goal. They did not anticipate becoming the minority party at the Federal level.

Americans now spend more than $10K per capita per year on healthcare whereas most industrialized countries manage to spend only slightly more than half that and still provide pretty good to their citizens. If the new administration can come up with a system that puts incentives in place to aggressively control costs, particularly in the many choices consumers make, it will go a long way to improving access for everyone.

By: Queeg

Queeg — Thu, 29 Dec 2016 03:54:18 +0000

Comrades

A waitress in a coffee shop, married, two children pays maybe $125.00 per month for ACA insurance……a comparable sized family making a decent living pay $1800.00 per month for health care…..no subsidy….you bad….you can afford it!!!!!

And you wonder why so many people are angry out there.

By: LB1

LB1 — Wed, 28 Dec 2016 23:58:39 +0000

You mean, 3.7 million immigrant , many illegal Californians would lose Medi-Cal coverage, while another 1.2 million would lose subsidies, which may or may not make coverage unaffordable. Shut it down. The care that people are getting now under Obumer’s law , stinks. you have to drive 150 miles to get a tooth pulled.The 43 percent who had a favorable impression are people that don’t pay for it to begin with. No government has the right to force anything on anybody. Period. The Democrats can go to He**. They have destroyed this country with their loony liberal laws and immigration. Look at that loon Jerry Brown, he needs to be thrown out of office. The idiots running this side show in Ca are just that, idiots. Someone has to come in and try and clean up this mess that these loons have gotten us into.

By: Dude

Dude — Wed, 28 Dec 2016 23:27:54 +0000

Have you liberal cry babies figured out why the following took place?
……
” In 2010, Democrats lost the House. In 2014, they lost the Senate. And in 2016, they failed to regain the Senate and lost the White House.