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"Its cost controls are weak, at best. There's no way the country will come out the other side of this with cheaper healthcare." Thankfully the cost controls a
by Steko 13y ago
"Its cost controls are weak, at best. There's no way the country will come out the other side of this with cheaper healthcare."
Thankfully the cost controls are existant, at least, which is by inspection better than the status quo. This existence also renders your conclusion on costs a complete non sequitur.
Trivia: as much as conservatives hate Obamacare (spoilers: a lot), they can't resist using the cost savings it generates in their stunt budgets because the numbers don't work without the Obamacare savings.
- CrankyPants 13y agoThe existence of controls doesn't necessarily equate to effectiveness. Pair ineffective cost controls with a massive, complex, bloated, ineffective framework, and it doesn't seem to follow that the result is by inspection necessarily better than the status quo. Nor was my conclusion on costs, therefore, a complete non-squitur. And since when is marginally bettering a fairly lousy status quo somehow laudable? That's a remarkably disappointing outlook. Many Republicans hate it because their team lost, which is a poor reason to hate a bill, but just as poor–and perhaps more insidious–is that many Democrats cheer its passage, while knowing very little about it. Because their team won. We've seen that story played out time and time again, in both parties, on myriad issues. We really, really can do better than that, on all sides.
- bally999 13y agoWrong. Young people are paying quite higher premiums for care under Obamacare. http://americanactionforum.org/research/premium-increases-for-young-invincibles-under-the-aca-and-the-impending http://americanactionforum.org/research/premium-increases-fo...
- Steko 13y agoYou're worse than wrong -- you're not even wrong. We're talking about costs as a whole.