Obamacare Now Estimated to Cost $2.6 Trillion in First Decade

Best to pay the penalty tax and then when something comes up, buy a Gold Plated insurance policy, since you cant be refused on pre-existing.

Best to pay the penalty tax and then when something expensive comes up, buy a Gold Plated insurance policy, since you cant be refused on pre-existing. Put off routine check-ups and preventative care.

that's exactly what is going to happen...and then right after they get treatment and healed, they dump the plan, pay the tax, rinse and repeat....which will lead to insurers going bankrupt, sending people into the arms of the government-run exchanges and plans, ie a defacto single-payer government run nightmare, which is EXACTLY what the democrats and Obama had in mind and designed Obamacare to do.

that's exactly what is going to happen...and then right after they get treatment and healed, they dump the plan, pay the tax, rinse and repeat....which will lead to insurers going bankrupt, sending people into the arms of the government-run exchanges and plans, ie a defacto single-payer government run nightmare, which is EXACTLY what the democrats and Obama had in mind and designed Obamacare to do.

Best to pay the penalty tax and then when something expensive comes up, buy a Gold Plated insurance policy, since you cant be refused on pre-existing. Put off routine check-ups and preventative care.

A simple increase in the penalty tax will deal with that problem.

But wait.... Obama told us it wouldn't be a tax. Imagine him trying to sell a tax increase.

But wait.... Obama told us it wouldn't be a tax. Imagine him trying to sell a tax increase.

Obamacare: it probably won't work, because the government can't do anything right, and the private sector will steal the government blind. Anyway, conservatives don't like the idea of national health care. They pass around the internet stories about some woman in Canada who had to give herself a C-section with a chain saw because there weren't any doctors.

Well, maybe. Or maybe when you underfund national health care, probably because of bribes from the chainsaw manufacturers, you get too few doctors. Anyhow, when they start in on how awful national health care is, I always want to say, “Yes, no doubt. My faith in you is without limit. But, just out of curiosity you understand, can you name two hospitals in France? Give me any three facts about health care in Japan? A brief comparison of medicine in Denmark and Finland? In short, do you have the slightest idea of what you are talking about?”

But I don’t ask. It would be like poisoning goldfish.

Now, America has two examples of socialized medical care, the VA system and the military system. Since it would be intelligent to examine these to see how well they work, nobody does. The VA hospitals ain't great, being over-affirmative-actioned and under-funded, since the Pentagon has more enthusiasm for making new cripples than caring for old ones.

The military system is another thing. The first question you are asked in a military hospital is, “What is wrong with you?” instead of “How are you going to pay for this?” Because the doctors are on salary, they don't gouge. Nor do they refuse to treat you because of the mounds of stupid federal paperwork required for things like Medicare. Nor in the military system do insurance companies hunt, like starving ferrets on the trail of a mouse, for reasons not to pay. While insurance companies won't pay claims if they can help it, they will assuredly pay Congress not to ask awkward questions, so no comparisons with the military hospitals will be made.

The military system works, God help us. You show your ID card, they fix you. You need something expensive? You get it. You don’t need a pricey scan to pay for the new seventy-five-button, six-hundred brake horsepower MRI machine? You don’t get it. When I last covered the military, which is an already-functioning, easily studied system that works under American cultural conditions, it was competitive cost-wise with the private sector. Let us avert our eyes.

Insightful one here