The PPACA - Implementation Phase I

[FlagDUDE08]

Re: The PPACA - Implementation Phase I

I'm not familiar with the details of MA law so I wouldn't know. Does the MA law allow employers to self-insure with high-limit stop-loss coverage?

Furthermore, how does MA law treat local offices of companies that are headquartered elsewhere? Perhaps different rules apply in that case?

and perhaps you can explain to us why so many articles about MA experience say that in practice it turned out to be more expensive than predicted at the outset, while covering fewer people than projected?

Unless the Huffers state it, it's not true.

[Rover]

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and perhaps you can explain to us why so many articles about MA experience say that in practice it turned out to be more expensive than predicted at the outset, while covering fewer people than projected?

kindly site these articles for us if you please? I'm always curious when people start throwing out statement what they're based on. I don't think this is an unreasonable request, no?

[FreshFish]

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kindly site [sic, you meant 'cite'] these articles for us if you please? I'm always curious when people start throwing out statement what they're based on. I don't think this is an unreasonable request, no?

I'm not posting links to subscription-only trade journals, what would be the point?

Do you argue aeronautical engineering with LynahFan, merely because you read part of an article about it once on the internet?

I'm always amused at how readily you discard my actuarial expertise. I would have been quite happy had a decent law been passed. as I said in the original post of the "sad case" thread, no matter what your political affiliation, no matter what you thought was the right solution, the actual language of PPACA is a disaster. It is one case where any partisan of any stripe should be disappointed!

You keep arguing that they meant well. Big deal. Good intentions don't cut it when your math is out of balance. They've set in place several negative feedback loops which can only exacerbate whatever they were trying to cure. Hold up a microphone next to a speaker broadcasting what the mike picks up and you'll hear what I mean pretty quickly!

[LynahFan]

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Believe me, I've argued from positions of much greater ignorance than that! As sophisticated, civil, and well informed as most people tend to be around here, this is still the internet, after all.

[unofan]

Do you argue aeronautical engineering with LynahFan, merely because you read part of an article about it once on the internet?

You argue with me about economics based on less than that, so why wouldn't he?

[Rover]

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I'm not posting links to subscription-only trade journals, what would be the point?

Do you argue aeronautical engineering with LynahFan, merely because you read part of an article about it once on the internet?

I'm always amused at how readily you discard my actuarial expertise. I would have been quite happy had a decent law been passed. as I said in the original post of the "sad case" thread, no matter what your political affiliation, no matter what you thought was the right solution, the actual language of PPACA is a disaster. It is one case where any partisan of any stripe should be disappointed!

You keep arguing that they meant well. Big deal. Good intentions don't cut it when your math is out of balance. They've set in place several negative feedback loops which can only exacerbate whatever they were trying to cure. Hold up a microphone next to a speaker broadcasting what the mike picks up and you'll hear what I mean pretty quickly!

The "point" might be to prove that you're not just pulling things out of your @ ss. Whether you do that or not I can't tell as all you righties tend to run together unless they're a real closet case like Opie. However if you're going to claim massive cost overruns, cannibalism, etc, in a state I reside in, I don't think its a stretch to ask you to maybe back up some of these assertions. If you don't want to, no worries, but it doesn't exactly boost the credibility of your arguments. While you seek to have legitimacy granted to you because of the field you work in, I'll remind you that The Unibomber has a Harvard degree and I'd be taking his arguments with a grain of salt regardless. When people have a bias, as you do in this case, they'll tend to slant things a certain way. Human nature.

Also put away the strawman because I'm not arguing the law means well, I'm arguing its the right thing to do? Why? Because its already worked in Massachusetts, which by all right wing accounts should have been broke by now with double digit unemployment. As I continually ask, why has none of that come to pass in a decent sized state (7M people) that's had the law on the books for 7 years? Surely by now we'd all be working part time and under 30 hours so our employers could skip the mandate if they hadn't already left the state. The biggest counterpoint to conservative fear mongering on this issue is the fact that's its already been done successfully.

[FlagDUDE08]

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Well who didn't see this coming... http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013...ation-notices/

[FreshFish]

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I'm arguing its the right thing to do.

If you believe in your religion, it's the "right thing to do" to ask other people to convert. That doesn't justify the Spanish Inquisition.

The way PPACA is written, it cannot deliver on its promises, the math simply will not work. You are behaving like the Catholic Church and I'm Galileo. Don't shoot the messenger; heed the message.

[brookyone]

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"Healthcare" in the UK:

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/enter...yers-foot-bill

[St. Clown]

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"Healthcare" in the UK:

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/enter...yers-foot-bill

I wonder if the BAG can recover the cost from her based upon the alleged confession at the end of the article.

[brookyone]

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I wonder if the BAG can recover the cost from her based upon the alleged confession at the end of the article.

At the very least, if her new taxpayer financed boobs "make it all happen" as she hopes I hope they get it back from her in taxes.

[St. Clown]

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Hm, my tablet auto-corrected NHS to BAG. I didn't expect that.

[Rover]

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Food for thought:

http://www.nationalmemo.com/medicare...-to-obamacare/

[FlagDUDE08]

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Food for thought:

http://www.nationalmemo.com/medicare...-to-obamacare/

Taking sand from one hole to fill another.

[FlagDUDE08]

Re: The PPACA - Implementation Phase I

OK, let's go by the numbers on this one. http://www.irs.gov/PUP/newsroom/REG-148500-12%20FR.pdf is the actual data, http://cnsnews.com/news/article/irs-...e-20000-family is a cliffs notes version.

According to this site, the penalty for a family of five making $120,000 a year living in a place that is the national average will be a charged a tax of $2400. They will be offered a credit of $2400 by paying for the lowest-level of insurance plan that will cost, per year for the five of them, anywhere between $12,000 and $20,000 ($12,000 is from http://www.factcheck.org/2013/03/oba...0000-a-family/ just in case the whiners would like to put in a rebuttal about numbers; there isn't much of a difference in the point anyway). Knowing this, and how certain high risk individuals that go skiing and break their leg bones will likely not have the same payments or possibly even qualifications as bronze coverage, are families still going to fork over five figures extra for this product, when putting that money in the bank for ten years will save enough enough to cover the cost of that broken leg?