Originally Posted by ijusluvit

VK - thanks for these two excellent posts. I can't understand how you access all of the information you do, so quickly, and I really admire your ability to put it all together. Your suggestions for how to cover ACA costs are attractive, reasonable and doable. You must have spent a lot of time on this today. I wish I had more time to work on this, but I had to spend the whole day playing in a wonderful benefit golf tournament.

I've paid less attention to paying for ACA than studying provisions which might be problematic, impractical or result in unreasonable costs. So far I haven't found any I am convinced should be dropped from the overall plan. That's why I've asked Bucco if he is aware of any such provision.

So with respect to costs, I haven't learned yet whether ACA cost projections include any offsetting revenues. Are revenues projected from those who chose to pay penalties instead of buying insurance? 40 million uninsured would contribute 27.8 billion to the Treasury annually if most of the uninsured chose to pay the penalty. If only half bought a policy from a state or federal exchange, that would bring about that same amount into the coffers.

So, until I discover specific elements that I feel would derail the overall effort , I thoroughly agree with your that the last thing we should do is repeal ACA and start over.