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In reply to the discussion: Remember when I said the mandatory health insurance provision in the ACA was bad news? [View all]Wounded Bear
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Remember when I said the mandatory health insurance provision in the ACA was bad news? [View all]
Zalatix
Sep 2012
OP
I don't know where you pulled that from, not even left field- out in parking lot C maybe?
snooper2
Sep 2012
#70
You mean a mandatory purchase law that originally was proposed by the Heritage Foundation
Zalatix
Sep 2012
#97
tell us what the tax penalty is for not having insurance on September 19, 2012?
CreekDog
Sep 2012
#98
Yes, some got rebate checks, at least one got dinged 10% instead. I am willing to bet
Zalatix
Sep 2012
#114
Again, you read "the fucking law" but you just don't comprehend. Let's see if you comprehend math?
Zalatix
Sep 2012
#145
Completely unrelated to the post you were responding to ... Really ...
1StrongBlackMan
Sep 2012
#127
So the poster I cited was lying. Did you make sure to tell them that in their thread?
Zalatix
Sep 2012
#138
I think we often rely on logical fallacies to better validate our faith in a position
LanternWaste
Sep 2012
#110
My case, as stated in the OP, is that the **individual mandate** is not going to work.
Zalatix
Sep 2012
#77
You're making a selective error in logic that you'd probably not make in other situations e.g.
patrice
Sep 2012
#154
Here's one link to a NY Times story last week (but there are many others if you google)
riderinthestorm
Sep 2012
#88
Mandatory private health insurance will solve this problem. For-profit care is the law! nt
Romulox
Sep 2012
#4
Having a tax penalty imposed is not the same as being 'forced' to buy insurance.
randome
Sep 2012
#27
Buy or pay a penalty is not force? You have a strange definition of the word 'penalty'.
Zalatix
Sep 2012
#32
So Democrats were wrong all these years when they opposed it? The President was wrong
sabrina 1
Sep 2012
#129
So the only way out of being shaken down for money for corporate welfare is to die. Gotcha.
Zalatix
Sep 2012
#65
All you have to do is look at Romneycare to find out what happens when it IS
sabrina 1
Sep 2012
#130
FAIL! When there is 8% structural unemployment, monetary stimulus by itself
coalition_unwilling
Sep 2012
#28
No. We want people to have Health CARE. "Insurance" is a corporate, for-profit concern. nt
Romulox
Sep 2012
#10
The mandate is needed for the requirement that insurance companies cover pre-existing conditions.
Nye Bevan
Sep 2012
#24
No. Making the insurance industry part of the government will have disastrous consequences. nt
Romulox
Sep 2012
#119
That is actually what single payer is. The government becomes the insurer. nt
stevenleser
Sep 2012
#133
Um, no. Single Payer does not include guaranteed profit margins for private insurers. nt
Romulox
Sep 2012
#159
The mandate does not provide everyone in the country with health insurance. nt
NCTraveler
Sep 2012
#108
So? Health care premiums have been doing that for decades. 2012 national
sinkingfeeling
Sep 2012
#15
The OP made a specific assertion of fact, has no data to back it up, and this
Warren Stupidity
Sep 2012
#37
My health insurance went up on average 25% every year when Dubya was pResident.
auburngrad82
Sep 2012
#19
If it's so easy for them to "game the system", why are they desperate to overturn the ACA? (nt)
Nye Bevan
Sep 2012
#58
So your claim is that anecdotal evidence, the statements of a few people on the internets
Warren Stupidity
Sep 2012
#39
As soon as you walk back your implication that ACA is making things worse
Warren Stupidity
Sep 2012
#45
I didn't say the ACA is making things worse. I said the INDIVIDUAL MANDATE is making things worse.
Zalatix
Sep 2012
#49
The OP said only that premiums were going up by 'as much as 10 percent'. I have to
coalition_unwilling
Sep 2012
#38
Please see my edited post. I think the 'tell' is that insurance premiums
coalition_unwilling
Sep 2012
#44
A Republican talking point? The individual mandate was Mitt Romney's brainchild.
Zalatix
Sep 2012
#46
I sure haven't seen that. However, what do you think premiums were doing before ACA? They were NOT
still_one
Sep 2012
#56
And the Individual Mandate is a poisonous element. It was originally a HERITAGE FOUNDATION idea.
Zalatix
Sep 2012
#68
No, but the law has been passed. Insurance companies are responding to that law.
Zalatix
Sep 2012
#94
OK, Romney's your man. He has pledged to overturn it on the first day of his presidency. (nt)
Nye Bevan
Sep 2012
#72
Are you KIDDING ME? Romney was the guy who passed the FIRST health insurance mandate law in MA.
Zalatix
Sep 2012
#75
Um, you realize how stunningly ironic this statement is, don't you? Um, don't you??? nt
Romulox
Sep 2012
#121
Does it matter if premiums go up when the ACA demands that any $ not spent on providing care
stopbush
Sep 2012
#67
I got a notice I'm getting a REFUND because of the 85% rule. Ins. premiums go up EVERY YEAR....
Obamamite
Sep 2012
#112
I'd be happy with a 10% increase, considering it has gone up more than that annually for decades.
Hoyt
Sep 2012
#115
This title infuriates me and that "we" are even engaging with this, uh, objectivist, is offensive.
cr8tvlde
Sep 2012
#126