The Biggest Lie wasn't "Like your doctor, keep your doctor".

[Arianrhod]

As for your "points"? I'd be happy to address them...

"People who stop paying their premiums end up with no coverage – just as they did prior to the PPACA – and are billed the full amount."

So when someone who stopped paying their premiums because they don't have the money to do so are sent a huge bill in the mail for the full amount of their treatments at the doctor's office...do you REALLY think they pay THAT bill when they couldn't pay the much less expensive premiums? Duh? So the doctor sends out his bill...and hears nothing in return.

What do you think happened before the ACA?

 

[Oldstyle]

As for your "points"? I'd be happy to address them...

"People who stop paying their premiums end up with no coverage – just as they did prior to the PPACA – and are billed the full amount."

So when someone who stopped paying their premiums because they don't have the money to do so are sent a huge bill in the mail for the full amount of their treatments at the doctor's office...do you REALLY think they pay THAT bill when they couldn't pay the much less expensive premiums? Duh? So the doctor sends out his bill...and hears nothing in return.

What do you think happened before the ACA?[/QUOTE

Oh, it happened before the ACA but in no where near the same scale as it's happening now, Arian! You've got people who were signed up on the Health Care Exchanges who didn't have a clue what a deductible was...who had no intention of paying their premiums. They got insurance...they went to the doctor...they got their treatment...and they've never paid another premium or any of their deductible. These are people who already had lousy credit and have few assets you could take them to court for so they could care less if you take them to court because they aren't paying!

 

[Arianrhod]

Oh, it happened before the ACA but in no where near the same scale as it's happening now, Arian! You've got people who were signed up on the Health Care Exchanges who didn't have a clue what a deductible was...who had no intention of paying their premiums. They got insurance...they went to the doctor...they got their treatment...and they've never paid another premium or any of their deductible.

Evidence?

 

[Sun Devil 92]

Second, it extended coverage to the poorest in America but it did so at astronomical cost, clearly a contradiction of the intent of the bill. For God's sakes, the freakin WEBSITE healthcare.gov is going to cost us one hundred times original estimates, over a billion dollars!

What?

Coverage through the exchanges in FY14 was supposed to cost ~20 billion. It cost $14 billion. Medicaid was supposed to be costing $331 billion. It was actually $310 billion. Medicare was supposed to cost $652 billion (post-reform). It was actually $600 billion.

All the costs have been lower than advertised.

Those numbers are meaningless unless they are on the same cost basis.

Are they ?