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Not for a minute do I believe it will, but if the Republican's plan results in just as many American citizens being covered and slows the rise of healthcare costs that have been rising for three decades now...then I'm all for it.
What I predict will happen though, is that premiums will actually increase at a greater rate than they have, given that preexisting conditions still have to be covered...but there is now no mandate that everyone has to participate to offset the higher risk pools.
How can they not? 
I also predict that the bigger mess this creates compared to the ACA, will come back to haunt the Repub's...since they now own it. 
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Premiums MUST go up...to cover the ever increasing cost of healthcare.
$1 million spread out over 80 years...is over $1000 a month.
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I am 53 years old, healthy (no prescriptions, no doctor visits, no health issues), I go for preventive testing every 3 years (at a local hospital and pay out of pocket for testing of PSA, cholesterol, etc), I have had health insurance since I was 18.
Does it sound like I am the type of person that does not understand what drives prices in the health insurance market? My premiums went from $750 a month to $1300 since Obammacare was enacted. Of course my premiums had gone up from when I was 18 over the years but never had it gone up 80% in 3 years!!
I am not the only one that has this complaint, I have had many conversations with people that have experienced a similar rise in premiums and none were happy about that.
You must be a person that never had healthcare, you must be paying less than me for healthcare due to Obammacare??
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You've been paying too little and they're increasing premiums to cover the current costs. Over $1000 EVERY month for 80 years equals $1 million, an average amount of healthcare costs in a lifetime.
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Your answwer is let them die, maybe if it was someone you loved it would be different.
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It's inevitable. You CANNOT spend a $ million per person. Especially when they're elderly and all you're getting is a few extra months. It's has to stop...it will stop.
You'll know it's coming when they start showing, getting us accustomed to...end of life alternatives...in movies and TV. Euthanasia. The religious are the ones who are against it. But I think we will see it. Healthcare is simply TOO EXPENSIVE to treat everyone.
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OK, then you enlighten me and tell me about what you think is the Biblical context. Show me where the Bible says anything about not helping the "perpetually poor" or "fakers who are ripping you off." Point out to me in your context where the Bible says that we don't need to help the poor and sick of a particular "race" as you suggest. The Bible says we should help the poor and sick to be Christian, and your imagined and made up "context" does not exist. You don't get to twist the teachings of Jesus into something that fits your distorted political philosophy.
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Well first off...the "Bible" is basically the Jewish Torah with the "New Testament" which is basically...all PAUL...thrown in to pretty much contradict everything in the "original" OT Bible.
It's ALL fiction. The OT based on older stories. The NT a creation of Paul who is the REAL founder of "Christianity". There is NO evidence that the "Jesus of the NT" ever existed let alone did all the "miracles" he's accredited with doing. PAUL wrote most of the stories about Jesus and the parables. The "books" supposedly written by John, Luke, Mark, etc...are anonymous often rewritten and changed. What you are reading has been changed and shuffled around to no end. Entire "books" of the NT were taken out. Words changed...things left out...things added. It's all FAKE. Done by "church scholars" who wanted to ensure they'd get their 10% cut...their tithings...you are being fooled.
The Jews weren't fooled by Paul. There is NOTHING in either religion that PROVES Jesus (as seen in the Bible) EVER existed. Flavius Josephus? He NEVER met Jesus, he wrote DECADES later that he'd "heard of a Christ". NOBODY contemporary to Jesus writes of him. There are no Roman records of him or the trial/crucifixion. There is NOTHING but YOUR "records"...church records. And they are...ALL...VERY...post Jesus.
I was simply making a point that your Bible does not specifically mention being "nice" to blacks or fakers. Back then...not many knew blacks existed...they weren't "discovered" until much later. Some Arabs had found them, enslaved them, maybe the Egyptians too...who REALLY knows because there is so much disinformation out there.
All I DO know is what they do to a school when they show up in numbers...what they do to a neighborhood...a town...a city...a COUNTRY. They DESTROY them all and they'll end up destroying here too if they're allowed to keep breeding like they are.
Disagree? Lets hear of their great contributions to civilization.
They are NOT us...but we're stuck with them.