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How is this ACA a good thing for the country?
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I'm a bit bored at the moment, so I'll bite.
How is it a good thing for the country? It's simple. Those who can afford healthcare insurance are subsidizing those who don't have health insurance.
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Too expensive.
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It's not expensive now?
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Rates are climbing.
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Are they? Where do you see that?
The concept here is that with more people buying healthcare insurance, the cost should go down.
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Has a stifling effect on job growth.
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How is that possible?
No really, where did you hear that bullshit from? If twice as many people suddenly get health insurance, they'll have to hire a lot more people to take care of their new customers. Not less.
Oh, do you mean more employers will drop their employees down to part time? I don't believe that. Even Wal Mart has announced they are doing to start doing the direct opposite.
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We didn't have a choice to opt out.
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I don't have a choice to opt out of car insurance.
No you don't have a choice to opt out. That's the entire point. The people who don't have healthcare are causing the price of healthcare to go for everyone else. You WILL need healthcare at some point in your life. Thus, you are going to pay for it one way or another.
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Invasion of privacy.
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How so? Everyone involved already has your information file. So does the IRS.
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Why did it get rolled out nationwide instead of a controlled pilot program to iron out the bugs?
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Now you are just being silly.
The Federal government doesn't roll out laws "in controlled pilot programs". It's a law, not a trial program.
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This is a very ill conceived and executed program.
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Perhaps the Republicans should work on fixing it instead of shutting down the government. I mean, seriously, how can they fix what's broken if they are all off of work for weeks at a time?
Put it into place, figure out what's wrong, and fix it.