Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="It will be fine" data-source="post: 2748612" data-attributes="member: 55017">Thanks for a substantive response. I think you&#039;re off on a lot though. I&#039;ve been self employed my whole life and premiums were going up 50-100%\year for me consistently before the ACA. The difference was I was getting worse coverage, lifetime maximums, fear of anything being considered a pre-existing condition and not being covered. The essential health benefits included in the ACA are great, now I don&#039;t have to comb through fine print to see what&#039;s covered.The objection to the government mandating coverage I disagree with. Virtually everyone will need medical care at some point so it really comes down to who has to pay for it. The mandate forces people to pay according to their means. It prevents people from going without insurance, getting care, not paying for it, and the costs being passed on to the rest of people that are paying.A lot of the cost was covered in tax increases for high income earners, medical devices etc. There are certainly problems with the medicaid expansion being pushed back on the states. I don&#039;t know how that will continue. Our current tax structure can certainly pay for a national health care system. We already spend close to the top of the list of developed countries in public money on health care. We are just incredibly inefficient in our spending.Overall as someone in the individual market, I think it&#039;s been a great bill. It needs to do more to control costs, but it&#039;s added quite a bit of certainty in coverage that I didn&#039;t have before.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="It will be fine, post: 2748612, member: 55017"] Thanks for a substantive response. I think you're off on a lot though. I've been self employed my whole life and premiums were going up 50-100%\year for me consistently before the ACA. The difference was I was getting worse coverage, lifetime maximums, fear of anything being considered a pre-existing condition and not being covered. The essential health benefits included in the ACA are great, now I don't have to comb through fine print to see what's covered. The objection to the government mandating coverage I disagree with. Virtually everyone will need medical care at some point so it really comes down to who has to pay for it. The mandate forces people to pay according to their means. It prevents people from going without insurance, getting care, not paying for it, and the costs being passed on to the rest of people that are paying. A lot of the cost was covered in tax increases for high income earners, medical devices etc. There are certainly problems with the medicaid expansion being pushed back on the states. I don't know how that will continue. Our current tax structure can certainly pay for a national health care system. We already spend close to the top of the list of developed countries in public money on health care. We are just incredibly inefficient in our spending. Overall as someone in the individual market, I think it's been a great bill. It needs to do more to control costs, but it's added quite a bit of certainty in coverage that I didn't have before. [/QUOTE]

Verification