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What a change, now the government penalizes marriage through the ACA. I wonder why the shift from promoting to penalizing marriage.

• lotsofpulp 3y ago
  https://thefinancebuff.com/marriage-penalty-under-obamacare-premium-subsidy.html https://thefinancebuff.com/marriage-penalty-under-obamacare-... For anyone curious.
• analog31 3y ago
  ACA was a bag of compromises intended to increase health care access without disrupting the insurance industry. It succeeded on both counts.
  • willcipriano 3y ago
    Remember when we were told that insurance companies would go bankrupt without the individual mandate and then it was ruled unconstitutional and not implemented after the first few years and insurance companies made more money than ever? The insurance industry could've tolerated quite a bit of disruption. The ACA was successful in ensuring the donor class got to keep the profit levels they are accustomed to, the only thing it was ever designed to do.
    • tzs 3y ago
      > The ACA was successful in ensuring the donor class got to keep the profit levels they are accustomed to, the only thing it was ever designed to do. So it reducing the number of uninsured by many millions was just an unintentional consequence, or what?
      • willcipriano 3y ago
        Health insurance != Healthcare. Now a bunch of people are paying hundreds a month for a ten thousand dollar deductible. Those people already pay for socialized medicine (the US spends the most on socialized medicine per captia), so I don't see that as a win as much as a gift to the insurance companies.