You don't have the faintest idea what's in the ACA...do you?
If you are asking if I have intimate knowledge of all the minute details, then of course I don't any more than you do. Your question demonstrates one of the most confusing aspects of the right wing mind. You have been convinced that anything that doesn't exactly match your parties goals is necessarily evil in every aspect, and there is no possibility that anything good might be involved. Anyone who likes a non-GOP advocated idea must be a bum whose only goal is to destroy America while they lay on the couch and take your money and rights. I couldn't live in such a dark hateful world, and I don't understand how you do.
I hate to break this to you, Bulldog...but if you didn't know that insurance companies can't charge people more for pre-existing conditions then you don't even know the basics of the ACA!
This has nothing to do with political party. It's simple common sense combined with 8th grade math skills. You can't enroll millions of Americans with heavily subsidized health insurance...enroll millions more with pre-existing conditions...and not have healthcare premiums for healthy Middle Class people go up. You can't unless the Federal Government picks up the tab which means massive increases to the deficit. So those are your choices...you either level with Middle Class America that their healthcare premiums are going to have to be really high to pay for the people like yourself...or you level with the country that having the Federal Government cover the tab is going to so expensive it's going to bury us in debt.
If you're not telling people that...you're lying to them.
You questioned my statement that you can be charged extra for pre-existing conditions, so I double checked. I was wrong. Even though I am confident in most of my beliefs, the introduction of new, credible facts can change my mind quickly. It's hard to argue with the truth, and kind of senseless. Thank you for instigating my better understanding of the truth. However, I couldn't find any example of any subsidy or extra payment to compensate the insurance companies for that. My understanding is that the millions of new policies will more than make up for any loss they might have for that reason. Are you saying that the increase in volume for the insurance companies with their corresponding profit gains were somehow kept secret? How exactly am I being subsidized? Of course rates, which have always been set by the insurance companies, will always go up. They always have, and I suspect they always will, but the rate of increase has dropped quite pleasingly.
Bulldog? How can you not know these things?
The Obama Administration worked out a deal with the health insurance companies where if they would support the ACA by not raising rates past a certain level the Federal Government would agree to reimburse them for any loses they suffered if the cost for providing healthcare under the new system was greater than projected. The insurance companies did so because they KNOW that the costs will have to be much greater than projected but they don't care because the Feds will pay them back whatever they lose. It's why rates haven't gone up as they normally would to cover people like yourself with pre-existing conditions. That does NOT mean that the cost of health care has gone down in this country. Americans simply haven't seen their part of the bill come due yet because the true costs are being hidden.
Ok. You have reasons why you don't like healthcare. I just don't see those reasons as that terrible. Bottom line.....That particular cow is already out of the barn and the right's effort to close the barn door over 50 times after the fact is just childish. Nobody ever said it was perfect, or that there might not be changes to make it better, so if you or your elected representatives have any ideas, then bring them on. Whining about it won't help anything. We have healthcare, and your personal opinion of it just doesn't matter. I was hoping for single payer.
Well of COURSE you don't see the reasons why the ACA is terrible, Bulldog...you're one of the ones being helped by it!
What are you going to tell a Middle Class family that doesn't qualify for subsidies and doesn't have a pre-existing condition? For them the ACA is a disaster. Either their healthcare premiums are going to go up drastically or the Federal debt is going to skyrocket which means the tax man will come knocking looking for more...more...more! At the same time the level of care that they receive for the money they pay is going to decrease. So what is it that's good about the ACA for your average Middle Class American, Bulldog?