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Officials Say HealthCare.gov Site Now Performing Well
The much-discussed health care finance sign-up website HealthCare.gov has benefited from the flurry of improvements that have been thrown at it in the last several weeks. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid spokesman Aaron Albright told Fox News Saturday that "[w]ith the scheduled upgrades last night and tonight, we're on track to meet our stated goal for the site to work for the vast majority of users." CMM spokeswoman Julie Bataille. "said the installation of new servers Friday night helped improved the response times and error rates, even with heavier-than-usual weekend traffic." If you've used the site this weekend, what has your experience been like?
We have property taxes, income taxes, social security taxes, now medical taxes. The plan to force everyone to participate in the dollar economy instead of being able to subsist on their own takes another step. We can't have anyone think they're responsible for themselves. From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
The usurers and overlords are pleased.
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
You realize that the estimates you were seeing are not accurate?
I though one of the big reasons this law was passed is because we were spending too large a portion of GDP on Health Care. How does rigging the system so everyone's rates go up, adding a bunch of people who were already eligible for medicaid to medicaid, and offsetting a portion of the newer higher prices with taxpayer subsidies lower the portion of GDP we spend on healthcare?
It sounds to me like the only thing we accomplished is giving health insurance companies access to tax revenues. I'm not thinking that will do much to control costs.
The motive for repeal is that the ACA is a river of lies, with headwaters in hell.
And after these no-talent rodeo clowns are done destroying American health insurance, they're going to be all "Hey: Single Prayer! Whaddaya say?"
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
Or how about a way to opt in if you ever need to goto the ER and cannot pay. That is the most enraging portion of this law, it treats people as if they are guilty of a future crime and demands they make restitution before ever committing it. Just as you said, people without insurance will go to the ER and not be able to pay for it which most of the people without insurance have never done and probably will never do.
So perhaps this entire pit of bullshit would be easier to swallow if the mandates were removed and people who actually do need insurance after the fact pays a penalty of some sort, they become enrolled. Most insurance companies will require a years wait before covering someone with a preexisting condition so make the penalty two years coverage payments and an obligation to keep the insurance for 5 consecutive years after. Then you will only have people who are in positions like you describe who are impacted by the laws. It is like only charging and convicting people of robbing banks when they actually do rob banks.
Like every other robot, endlessly repeating the disingenuous arguments and nonsense spewed forth by political entertainment clowns who don't care one bit who they hurt so long as they keep up their ratings, you have lots of declarations about lies and hell, but almost no facts. How boring.
The problem with quotes on the internet, is that nobody bothers to check their veracity. -- Abraham Lincoln
To repeat the lies the Democrats have spewed would take far too long. I want it to work, but it's based in party politics, supported by lies, and the website was written by an incompetent company run by Michelle Obama's classmate's company who got more contract work after they FUBARed HealthCare.gov. No accountability, no truth, and the worst part is health care premiums have gone up with worse care (quality of care is assumed worse due to the numerous high quality hospitals not supporting ObamaCare).
Actually they've admitted that that is their objective from the start.
The ACA's point is to pave the way for single payer by destroying the American insurance industry. This is not indispute or controversal. It is merely not what they say in the mainstream press. They have been caught in candid moment repeatedly during fundraisers telling their supporters that this is exactly the point.
What is more, it doesn't take a great intelligence to see the obvious... merely an obtuse one to be blind to it. The whole thing was concocted with that end in mind and its beyond obvious.
What is more... most of the supporters of the ACA are upset with it because it isn't single payer already. So to look at the ACA and say it isn't a harbringer of single payer healthcare is at best naive... and more likely dishonest.
That said, we're already finding the loopholes in your stupid law. The list of them is growing by the day. And your own politicians are working over time to create new ones as your political allies demand them... after all... the rules are for other people to follow not your people... right? Well... we'll use your own loopholes... We'll use any and all of them.
Ultimately, the ACA will amount to little more then an expensive education in the incompetence of big government and the empty words of your little cliche. The medicare expansion was looking like it might be a problem but now the medical industry is revolting because you're trying to dictate what doctors get paid. And doctors are responding by dropping medicare contracts. Which means your programs have a big and growing doctor shortage.
Free medical care with no doctors serving it... genius.
Your higher priced insurance policies will of course cover their services. But then what have you really accomplished here? You've made healthcare LESS accessible to people and more expensive.
TLDR?
Your incompetence is ruining lives as usual.
No really.
I've decided to stop wasting my time responding to AC trolls/sockpuppets... so if you want a response from me... login.