Originally Posted by Robbie

. . . but this is starting to look like it's gonna be a giant bureaucratic/money wasting typical govt. clusterfuck.

Originally Posted by mardigras

Simple... by having all the healthy people who weren't buying insurance in the system there is more money to cover the costs of those who need it. Healthy people have low medical costs.

What keeps the insurance companies from sucking the money out are the provisions in the Affordable Care Act that require them to use a specific percentage of premiums for actual health care.