The end of Obamacare?

2015-03-04T04:18:02-05:00

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/02/26/the-supreme-court-is-deciding-a-case-that-could-derail-obamacare-heres-what-you-need-to-know/?tid=HP_more?tid=HP_more

The Supreme Court is hearing a case that could derail Obamacare: Everything you need to know

A guide to the fight over federal subsidies helping Americans buy health insurance.

Response by Sgt Aaron Kennedy, MS made Mar 4 at 2015 7:03 AM

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The willingness of the Court to keep hearing these cases leads me to believe they are just waiting for the correct argument to overturn it.

As written, it is poor law.

I understand that it's Intent is good, admirable even, and there is an overwhelming urge to do something when you know a system is broken, however doing the wrong thing can make things worse, not better.

The ACA will allow us to learn from our failures, at least.

Response by Cpl Jeff N. made Mar 4 at 2015 7:13 AM

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One can only hope Gunny. There were a number of ways we could have worked on covering people that needed it without this monstrosity of a law that no one understands and the president keeps changing (even though he is not allowed to change legistlation).

Sometimes the simplest solution is the best. Perhaps for those that needed coverage we could have provided lower cost coverage with a sliding scale of what they would pay in premiums based upon household income. We could have pointed them to "approved" companies to provided the coverage, collect the premiums etc.

We could have then worked on the cost side of healthcare, something we still are not doing. We have to make it cost less. Lot's has been said on the topic, healthcare is important to people and we turned it into a political issue with the law and the way it was passed (and not read).

Response by SPC Joshua H. made Mar 4 at 2015 9:29 AM

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The ACA was a very poor attempt at fixing something that is broken...much like using silly putty on the booster rocket for a space shuttle, or a screen to fix a hatch on a submarine.

Yes, there are some good parts about the bill, but there are still a lot of things it did not touch on, and somethings it went way to far on.

2 of the largest expenses practices face are malpractice insurance, and the cost of education. If they would quit awarding multi-million dollar settlements for stupid stuff, and base it on real numbers, the cost of the insurance would go down. If they would look at capping the cost of education (it really has gotten out of control) we would be able to see more Drs in the field, and have a more competitive market.

I also hate the individual mandate, this strips us of freedom of choice, and if they are able to force this on us, then they will be able to make a law to force anything on us if this pile of garbage is allowed to stand.

I really would like to see this bill 100% overturned, and then start passing incremental changes that would truly be good for the country, like the no life time limits, or children being able to stay on parents insurance as long as they are in school, but we really need to look where some of the real problems are.

Response by SSG Robert Burns made Mar 4 at 2015 10:51 AM

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and the beginning of.......?

Response by MAJ Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 4 at 2015 10:59 AM

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Time will tell...

Response by SGT Ronald Audas made Mar 4 at 2015 2:25 PM

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The original concern was that;America had 30 million citizens not covered by insurance.At the present cost of the ACA,each uninsured individual could have been given 6.3 million dollars to buy their own policy.That being said;even the most hard core opponent of the ACA does not want to see anyone without coverage.Take out all of the issues not regarding health care,and see how fast people get behing this measure.As usual! Fixed the poor and hurt the middleclass.My premiums jumped 83 %.

Response by LTC Stephen C. made Mar 5 at 2015 11:54 PM

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GySgt Wayne A. Ekblad, I worked for group health insurance companies for over 23 years. Everyone in that business, even neophytes, knew that the ACA would run counter to virtually every commonly accepted principle of group insurance, and that the results would be catastrophic.