ACA Reaches 7M Sign Ups

Stonedtone · 04-01-2014, 01:27 PM

Sure looks like it's working despite the hate America and hope it doesn't do well Right

Wpnfire · 04-01-2014, 01:40 PM

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Sure looks like it's working despite the hate America and hope it doesn't do well Right

Well, I don't think you can say it's working based on how many people have signed up for it. Those are different arguments. I mean if you don't have health insurance you'll be fined, so you have to sign up for it at some point. And I think people have just gotten over the hate for it, and the site is working better now (it's actually working I mean), so that explains why people have signed up for it in huge numbers.

Stonedtone · 04-01-2014, 01:53 PM

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Well, I don't think you can say it's working based on how many people have signed up for it. Those are different arguments. I mean if you don't have health insurance you'll be fined, so you have to sign up for it at some point. And I think people have just gotten over the hate for it, and the site is working better now (it's actually working I mean), so that explains why people have signed up for it in huge numbers.

I'm not sure the fine threat is driving much. It's not very much relative to what you pay for insurance.

Wpnfire · 04-01-2014, 02:08 PM

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I'm not sure the fine threat is driving much. It's not very much relative to what you pay for insurance.

Eh, well I think it will convince people eventually.

Stonedtone · 04-01-2014, 06:09 PM

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Eh, well I think it will convince people eventually.

Like I said, The people that have never spent money on health care and they're bent on never doing it will just pay the small fine. You will always have those people. Many that either cost the system or destroy them financially

Wpnfire · 04-01-2014, 09:59 PM

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Like I said, The people that have never spent money on health care and they're bent on never doing it will just pay the small fine. You will always have those people. Many that either cost the system or destroy them financially

Oh but those people are few (I think AND I hope), the fact that 7 million uninsured people are signing up attests to the fact that most people are fine with it or at least coming to terms with the fact that the ACA is a law.

Xurtio · 04-07-2014, 08:20 AM

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I'm not sure the fine threat is driving much. It's not very much relative to what you pay for insurance.

It doesn't particularly matter. As long as they're paying their fines they're contributing to the safety network.

The whole point was the health care was already a mess and costing the government a lot of money to manage haphazardly. Both dems and reps had their solutions (and they weren't functionally all that different really).

Fining people is one way to recoup costs from when those fined people go to the emergency room without a plan. They don't need to get a health insurance plan for ACA to work, they just need to pay their fines and the fines need to be sufficient to outweigh the costs of uninsured injuries.

Stonedtone · 04-07-2014, 09:09 AM

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It doesn't particularly matter. As long as they're paying their fines they're contributing to the safety network.

The whole point was the health care was already a mess and costing the government a lot of money to manage haphazardly. Both dems and reps had their solutions (and they weren't functionally all that different really).

Fining people is one way to recoup costs from when those fined people go to the emergency room without a plan. They don't need to get a health insurance plan for ACA to work, they just need to pay their fines and the fines need to be sufficient to outweigh the costs of uninsured injuries.

What was the Republican solutions again? They wanted to keep the obvious very failed system

Wpnfire · 04-07-2014, 09:16 AM

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What was the Republican solutions again? They wanted to keep the obvious very failed system

lol. The Republican plan was this: .............die.

Xurtio · 04-07-2014, 09:32 AM

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What was the Republican solutions again? They wanted to keep the obvious very failed system

No, both sides recognized the financial problem and tried to address it. The Rep solution was built on a system lovingly called RomneyCare that was adopted by Mass.

Romneycare Vs. Obamacare: Key Similarities & Differences « CBS Boston

One of the criticisms I hear of it (I don't really know, because I'm not going to actually ever read either policy) is that it didn't cater to the filthy poors as much as Obamacare did.

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