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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]Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)"People are now being forced to pay higher insurance premiums just for being alive in America. And it's going to get worse, just like I said!"
1. nobody is being forced to do anything right now, as the dreaded mandate does not take effect until 2014.
2. the premium cost issue is getting better, not worse, but again that has little to do with the ACA, as most of the ACA does not take effect until 2014.
The OP is simply false as it asserts that "the mandatory health insurance provision in the ACA was bad news?" while those provisions are in the future.
The OP uses specifically vague language: "people's health insurance premiums are going up as much as 10% now" so that when confronted by the actual data, the OP can disingenuously change the subject from the overall effect of the ACA to the fact that individuals indeed do have different experiences in our patchwork healthcare system. The ACA will introduce more regulation and more standardization and more control over rates and expenditures for health care, but it can't do that until after it takes effect.
On the bullshit meter, I rate this OP 100% bull.