12-24-2013, 12:16 PM
"1. The lack of reasonable free market choices."
Every health insurance plan on the exchanges or our connector is a "free market" offering. The government is not offering insurance outside of Medicaid/Quest, which is going well with thousands of signups. If you have a problem with the lack of "reasonable" plans go talk to the private health insurance providers, not the government.
"2. Government trying to act like a business which we all know is an utter train wreck."
One aspect of the ACA is simply a meeting place between private businesses and individuals, which isn't much of a business. This is the Heritage Foundation/Romneycare universal health care insurance model. (The other major aspect is basic standards for health insurance such as no refusals for previous conditions, more moderate annual and lifetime caps and others)
"How is it that the "ACA" prevents the private sector from charging you triple?"
It doesn't. Could be that they just might charge you triple if there is any way they think they can get away with it. The one and only reason they might not is that their prices are up there on the web page right next to their competitors.
"Can you think of ONE entity that screws with the economy only to make it worse?"
Sure, the private insurance companies. Do you have any idea how unsustainable the outrageously overpriced health care is in the U.S. because of the private health care insurance industry? They have run health care in the U.S. since WWII. It was the private insurance that raised your premium over 60%! The U.S. pays double for health care over what the rest of the industrial world pays. Only Medicare, "socialized" health care insurance, has any track record of driving down costs. And it would drive them down further except for the Congressional obstructionists.
"If someone has been turned down because of health issues, why do I have to pay for it?"
You have to pay for it because that's the way insurance works. Just like you have to pay for other people's auto accidents, with business insurance you have to pay for other businesses' liability problems, etc. etc. Since every single living human being either has, or will have, health issues, the only rational, and cheapest, health insurance pool is everybody, that is, single payer.
None of this is to excuse the very poor management of the software development for the federal or Hawai'i insurance web sites. Oh, that's right, these were products of private software companies, so maybe the "inefficiency" is just fine because it's private industry inefficiency.
Every health insurance plan on the exchanges or our connector is a "free market" offering. The government is not offering insurance outside of Medicaid/Quest, which is going well with thousands of signups. If you have a problem with the lack of "reasonable" plans go talk to the private health insurance providers, not the government.
"2. Government trying to act like a business which we all know is an utter train wreck."
One aspect of the ACA is simply a meeting place between private businesses and individuals, which isn't much of a business. This is the Heritage Foundation/Romneycare universal health care insurance model. (The other major aspect is basic standards for health insurance such as no refusals for previous conditions, more moderate annual and lifetime caps and others)
"How is it that the "ACA" prevents the private sector from charging you triple?"
It doesn't. Could be that they just might charge you triple if there is any way they think they can get away with it. The one and only reason they might not is that their prices are up there on the web page right next to their competitors.
"Can you think of ONE entity that screws with the economy only to make it worse?"
Sure, the private insurance companies. Do you have any idea how unsustainable the outrageously overpriced health care is in the U.S. because of the private health care insurance industry? They have run health care in the U.S. since WWII. It was the private insurance that raised your premium over 60%! The U.S. pays double for health care over what the rest of the industrial world pays. Only Medicare, "socialized" health care insurance, has any track record of driving down costs. And it would drive them down further except for the Congressional obstructionists.
"If someone has been turned down because of health issues, why do I have to pay for it?"
You have to pay for it because that's the way insurance works. Just like you have to pay for other people's auto accidents, with business insurance you have to pay for other businesses' liability problems, etc. etc. Since every single living human being either has, or will have, health issues, the only rational, and cheapest, health insurance pool is everybody, that is, single payer.
None of this is to excuse the very poor management of the software development for the federal or Hawai'i insurance web sites. Oh, that's right, these were products of private software companies, so maybe the "inefficiency" is just fine because it's private industry inefficiency.