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I suspect once the baby boomers are gone things will slowly start to improve. They are generally the ones who both invented and keep alive such atrocities as th
by joesmo 11y ago
I suspect once the baby boomers are gone things will slowly start to improve. They are generally the ones who both invented and keep alive such atrocities as the drug war, our un-winnable foreign wars in too many countries to keep track of, and countless other insanities they either perpetrated themselves or took to a new level. Seriously, how can you expect socialism when both ruling parties are only interested in war, war, war, of all kinds and have absolutely no interest in education or their children's future (environment, opportunities, health care, etc.). Look what it took just to get a healthcare bill that says you have a right to buy health insurance passed. Before that, fuck off and die you sick bastard was the policy for sick, poor people, many of them young. Or education, which is now mostly unreachable except for the truly rich. The governing consensus (of most boomers who rule congress) is that we should be making money off of our young people instead of helping them get educated. I wonder why they're doing worse than other generations economically when they're being exploited by their parents generation without a hint of compassion. Student loans cannot even be gotten rid of if you declare bankruptcy.
This thought is both extremely sad and extremely hopeful. It's sad because there are a lot of boomers who I love dearly in my life as with probably most everyone here. It's hopeful because a lot of young people, including myself, are fucking sick and tired of being exploited by the old for their literally insane pursuits (mostly war and hate). In this sense, death is a welcome factor. I'm certain I'm not part of the first generation to think this about their elders nor am I part of the rest. The old, outdated, stupid, insane, cruel, hateful, hurtful ideas have to go and unfortunately the only thing that ever helps in such situations is death. Death is truly, the bringer of change, and in the current status quo, hopeful change.
- hueving 11y agoThe healthcare bill took forever to pass because of its half-assed marketplace that's offering terrible healthcare for lots of people. $621/mo premium with everything out of pocket up to a $6,000 deductible is a joke. That's as much as a mortgage payment for many people and it amounts to nothing more than catastrophic coverage.
- joesmo 11y agoAnd that's for one young, healthy person! The plans available, coverage, and costs are terrible. I can't imagine how regular workers making < $100k are paying those premiums and they're going up by about $50/year consistently. The bill had many other good provisions, but other than Medicaid expansion (which was turned down once again by mostly baby boomer asshole governors whose demonstrated compassion and empathy levels are so low they don't belong in the human race) none of them actually provides health care. It creates a market, and like you say, not a very good one, and fixes problems that shouldn't have existed in the first place like denying people coverage because they're sick (preexisting conditions) or went a month without coverage. And this is amazing progress and the best we can expect in America from the mostly baby boomer assholes in power. But if we repeat mindlessly that America is the greatest country on earth enough, we can overlook the fact that it is dead last in healthcare out of all developed countries. Why socialize medicine, pharmaceuticals, and other industries that profit off of people's misfortunes, sickness, and death? Why not profit off of other people's misfortunes, sickness, and death? Die already so I can get rich. That is the American way, after all, and that's why those prices are so fucking high.
- s0uthPaw88 11y agoThe average cost for an ACA premium in 2015 was $374 per month, but since 85 percent of people signing up receive a subsidy the cost is actually much lower. "Among consumers who are signed up for 2015 coverage to date in the 37 HealthCare.gov states, 8 in 10 could choose a plan with a premium of $100 or less after tax credits, based on available options."[1] [1]http://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2015/02/09/almost-6-point-5-million-consumers-qualify-for-an-average-tax-credit-of-268-per-month-through-the-health-insurance-marketplaces.html http://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2015/02/09/almost-6-point-5-mi...
- joesmo 11y agoYes, but I'm sure that includes health insurance not on the Platinum level (pays 90-100% of costs) which is even worse than what is described above and truly only for catastrophes. In New Jersey, there is no Platinum health plan < $500 per person and most of the plans, even at the Platinum level, still have outrageous out of pocket maximums, deductibles, or limits on coverage. For example, in New Jersey out of half a dozen or so Platinum plans only one has a nationwide network. It wouldn't matter for a person who gets sick on these non platinum plans because having to pay 20-50% of the whole bill with such high out of pocket maximums will most likely bankrupt anyone who can't afford the premium for more expensive plans.
- Aloha 11y agoI believe strongly that the boomers dying will also result in a wide, and wholesale transfer of wealth - it may not go intergenerationally directly - but it will unleash a torrent of stored wealth on the economy, and may cause a crash on housing prices (again) because of so much of the market 20-40% turning in 20 years.