Obamacare enrollment for 2018 reaches all time high

Obamacare failed because insurance is based on risk pools — that is, the lucky subsidize the unlucky.

The unlucky who have big health problems (and big medical bills) reap much greater benefits than those who remain healthy and out of the doctors' office.

Obamacare's rules hamstring insurers.

They can't exclude people for pre-existing conditions, and can't charge older customers more than three times as much as the young. Those rules skew the market in ways Obamacare didn't figure out how to offset.

Result: Young and healthy consumers pay far more in premiums than their claims would justify in order to subsidize the unexpectedly large influx of older, sicker customers who require expensive care.

Too many unlucky people, too few lucky people: That will collapse any insurance scheme.


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-obamacare-fail-health-care-insurance-medicine-0911-jm-20160909-story.html
 
Althea said:
More often than not, they're either kids who play tough guys on the internet, or they get insurance from an employer. As such, they don't know what health insurance actually costs, so they blather on about things they know nothing about.

I've been in the individual market for about 40 years, so I'm pretty well versed in the differences between what used to be, and what is. Trying to talk to the idiots, when they're either parroting Fox News nonsense, or simply lying about insurance to further the Right Wing agenda....is a waste of time.
Didn't we have these discussions (or worse) in '09?
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Oh definitely. Obamacare was the first path on The Road To Communism And One World Order. And weirdly, here we are.... still not commies, still our own country. Only now we have people who can see the doctor when they have strep throat or a broken arm, and not use the ER as a clinic. I'm still puzzled as to why the I-got-mine-so-fuck-the-rest-of-you-slackers crowd thinks that they're not paying for that through higher premiums.
 
evince said:
yeap
too lazy to study up and find out what works and what doesnt
they just PRETEND they know the answers and scream it at everyone
loud and repeated is not what determines something is a fact.
evidence is what determines something is a fact
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Exactly. The Fox News School of Journalistic Integrity. lol
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
Oh definitely. Obamacare was the first path on The Road To Communism And One World Order. And weirdly, here we are.... still not commies, still our own country. Only now we have people who can see the doctor when they have strep throat or a broken arm, and not use the ER as a clinic. I'm still puzzled as to why the I-got-mine-so-fuck-the-rest-of-you-slackers crowd thinks that they're not paying for that through higher premiums.
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Don't forget the death panels.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
Are you using a smart phone to post? I have an Android and can use the quote function by tapping on the little quote icons at the bottom right of the screen.
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He quotes sometimes. I don't post from my phone, so I'm not privy to the challenges.
 
Althea said:
Don't forget the death panels.
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Gods, how could I have forgotten those! Let's just say that anything who has a chronic disease requiring more expensive treatment and/or medications knows all about death panels. Insurance companies call them "utilization review" personnel. My youngest has MS and has been unable to tolerate many of the medications used to treat it. Her physician routinely has to fight the insurance company to have them covered. Without insurance, she would likely be wheelchair bound if not worse -- they cost upwards of $5K/month.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
I see my arrows hit home. That was easy. My work here is done.

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I see you're just another arrogant cunt that thinks because you say something it makes it so. I bet your "bitch", meaning your husband is a real pussy. He would have to be to put up with your tripe. Maybe that's why you post here and he doesn't. He's a coward.

Shoot all the arrows you want as long as the fire I referenced traps the one you love the most in it.
 
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CFM said:
I see you're just another arrogant cunt that thinks because you say something it makes it so. I bet your "bitch", meaning your husband is a real pussy. He would have to be to put up with your tripe. Maybe that's why you post here and he doesn't. He's a coward.
Shoot all the arrows you want as long as the fire I referenced traps the one you love the most in it.
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Wow what a great riposte! I'm just so afraid of you now. lol
Before I send you to the Big Ignore in the Sky, may I ask one more question?
The banjo in your profile pic .... brings back certain happy memories, eh?

And a song to send us on our day......

 
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