I think this law has been rolled out in a very neat package.
I am concerned that we have not even seen the taxes associated with this nor its impact on those who give it rave reviews.
Examples...
"A significant benefit of the Affordable Care Act is the opportunity to receive money-saving tax credits up front to cut the overall cost of health insurance, but now hundreds of thousands of consumers could owe back some of that money next April.
Those affected took advance payments of the premium tax credit for health insurance. Some married couples could owe $600 or $1,500 or $2,500 or even more. It might feel like a raw deal for some who are already suffocating under the escalating costs of health insurance.
"Health insurance is confusing enough, and now they're adding the complexities of the Tax Code," said Lorena Bencsik, a member of the Michigan Association of CPAs and owner of Prime Numbers in Ferndale."
Tax refunds will be cut for ACA recipients
5 Tax Impacts of Obamacare
5 Tax Impacts of Obamacare - TheStreet
The delays by the administration to fully implement this law is going to surprise folks soon.
I have always worried about the costs of this bill, and no amount of politics or current studies can convince me that these delays are simply putting us at ease until the @@@@ hits the fan.
"Massachusetts representative Stephen Lynch isn’t just worried about the negative impact Obamacare will have on his party’s performance this fall — he also thinks its worst effects on our health-care system are still to come. Lynch, who voted against the Affordable Care Act in 2010, warned that the situation is “going to hit the fan” when the law’s delayed provisions go into effect down the road.
“There are parts of Obamacare, or the Affordable Care Act, that were postponed because they are unpalatable,” he told the Boston Herald. The “Cadillac tax” that goes into effect in a few years and taxes employer health plans over a certain value, he said, will be “the first time in this country’s history that we have actually taxed health care.”
Dem Congressman on Obamacare: The Worst Is Yet to Come, It's 'Going to Hit the Fan' | National Review Online
The key phrase here is....
."“There are parts of Obamacare, or the Affordable Care Act, that were postponed because they are unpalatable,” he told the Boston Herald. "
These delays have made any CBO studies moot.
But then again, I am over 75 and probably have Alzhiemers and am sitting in soiled diapers