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It'll be interesting to see how this plays out. I imagine that a big percentage (maybe majority / plurality) of people jumping into the insurance markets are g
by JonFish85 13y ago
It'll be interesting to see how this plays out. I imagine that a big percentage (maybe majority / plurality) of people jumping into the insurance markets are going to be people who otherwise couldn't get insurance (pre-existing conditions, whatever--high-cost clients, essentially). The only way to balance the books is to make the healthy people pay more. I expect the young-and-healthy category to pay even more than the 15-50% extra in the article. It's going to be ugly, from a dollar perspective.
- dangrossman 13y agoAbout 17% of the US workforce is officially "underemployed"; that's a very large number. I would think a large chunk of that are young, healthy people who work one or more part-time jobs without benefits. They're to be forced into the health insurance marketplace as well, with government assistance if they can't afford it -- essentially, there will be a tax dollar transfer to insurers that could absorb much of the extra cost of also insuring people with pre-existing conditions. It really is hard to predict how it will play out.