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Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna
In case you missed it. The Congressional Budget Office has " scored" the impact of the Supreme Court overturning the individual mandate portion of ObamaCare. Here's what they project will happen.... - 16 million people will come off the roles of those insured by private insurance companies.
- Because of the loss of premium income, the insurance companies will have to increase premiums for those remaining insurers by 15%.
- Because of the increase in premiums, employers will drop offering company-paid health insurance to an additional 4 million people.
So, if those suing the government are successful, 20 million people will be returned to relying on hospital emergency rooms for their healthcare. The rest of us will pay 15% higher premiums to pay for these using ER's but not paying.
Now I ask you, if it took 14 months for the Congress to create ObamaCare, how long might it take for them to come up with a 'replacement' law to replace what the Supreme Court might overturn? Will they even try?
Is this what we really want? |
Do not have a lot of time to get into this deeply right now, but you ONLY list one alternative....and do not mention that how you have presented it is how it used to be....THAT is not good....but we then have a chance to have a redo....AND MAYBE...
This time we can discuss the lowering of costs, limits on suits, and do it publicly with NON politicians and get something done.
I realize I am making it sound much simpler that it is, but to say...ok it is unconstitutional but we don't trust our legislators to make it right, to me is self defeating.
Everyone realizes what it would mean, lets look for a way to fix it PUBLICLY, OPENLY, and address what the first effort was supposed to address.
I dont think either side disagrees that there is a need for reform, but we need legislation that ACTUALLY addresses the issues involved and is not politically motivated.