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Which article talks about disproving the affordable cost premise I mentioned above?
[Sorry, I’m just being pragmatic here. Do you think the average Joe Blow has the attention span or will to wade through that entire reading list if you don’t even tell him why he’s wrong beforehand?]
Also, the Affordable Care Act stipulates that 1) Medicaid will be used to pay for medical treatment for people earning 133% of less of the “federal poverty level”, and 2) people earning between 133% and 400% of the “federal poverty level” will receive some kind of subsidy for purchasing health insurance through a government-sponsored “health insurance exchange”.
So? Isn’t that good?
1.) People don’t have insurance because they can’t afford it.
2.) Forcing everyone to buy insurance wont enable them to afford it.
3.) No problem was resolved.
So? Medicaid will take care of it! All the poor folk that can’t afford the insurance won’t pay the tax/fine/penalty/gulag sentence! Isn’t that nice of government!
“The cost of healthcare should be distributed over everyone in order to lower the cost.”
This has been debunked so many times and in so many ways it’s not even funny.
Where? (Specifics)
Also, wouldn’t this mandate give the insurance companies more customers, and therefore incentive to lower costs?
This argument ignores scarcity. Just because people are forced to pay for something does not mean more resources are available.
The government will just make more doctors! [people seriously believe this].
When it comes down to it, 30/40 billion people cannot afford health care. Congress got together and discussed ‘how can we make healthcare affordable for 30 million people’? Isn’t that great of them?
Why don’t we just make everybody in the pool get into the system? Then the insurance companies will have all these new customers! And when enough people have this healthcare, the costs will go down! Who cares about scarcity; the mandate will increase demand for better doctors!
Also, instead of everybody rushing to the emergency room, instead more people will just be getting preventative care instead of care when they’re sick! We’d have LESS doctors, not more!
Problems solved, guys. Obamacare will work.
/Devil’s Advocate