Obamacare Exchange Exceeds 6 Million Projection Last Night

[jimmyz]

[Indy]

[Professor]

Funny part is that the Mass model has proven to be much more expensive to both the state and residents, and they are looking for ways to change it now.

[John Galt]

[John Galt]

[Indy]

[John Galt]

obamacare is the status quo. i suggest dismantling it.

[Indy]

[Spider]

The transfer of wealth from young to old is all healthcare ever has been. The old take more healthcare resources to string along than the young, and are less productive. The young take less healthcare resources and are more productive.

Of course the young subsidize the old. Leaving aside a Logan's Run style scenario, that's just how the world works.

If we want public healthcare, we simply have to accept that every year a senior citizen lingers on past their expiration date is a tremendous monetary expense with no monetary return. So our choices are 1: Hell with 'em. Let em die. Or 2: Eat the costs.

Griping about an immutable truth gets us nowhere. We just have to decide whether or not we can live with ourselves if we choose to look the other way rather than care for elders. And how we expect to be treated when we get there.

[jimmyz]

The idea that the US government mandates under threat of penalty that a citizen MUST buy something makes the ACA unpopular from the start. The couple million people that could not get health coverage due to pre-existing illness do benefit and I think that is one of the good parts of the ACA.

The ACA should have been an alternative plan made optional to help people in those and other similar circumstances. Not an omnibus edict on all of us.