<p>Has any government program ever been financially sound? Ever?</p>
<p>I worked for the govt for a short time. It was amazing. People would literally volunteer to hand deliver paperwork a 2-hour drive away because they were paid 50-cents a mile. And no-one ever saw or cared about the big picture of anything, just the details of the little pile on their desks. So crazy!</p>
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<p>Sissel v HHS and the Origination Clause</p>
<p>A fix is not ending Obamacare. Sorry.</p>
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Bill was started in the wrong chamber? Because it’s a tax, right? All revenue bills must originate in the House. Interesting.</p>
<p>Flossy, SS is quite sound and never would have had issues if the baby boomers hadn’t used it to keep their taxes so low. </p>
<p>Education, many programs have been quite sound, actually, financially.</p>
<p>I think that is a red herring. I don’t actually even think it is going to be the government that is going to cause a problem in ACA, long term, not financially.</p>
<p>Did the aca do anything with Medicare? I feel like prople are mixing up Medicare and Medicaid.</p>
<p>It cut Medicare Advantage.</p>
<p>And we are constantly hearing that SS is broke and there is never enough money for education. Hmmm.</p>
<p>WSJ is reporting that Obama’s plan is to allow people to keep their old policies (e.g. grandfathering in all old plans). Not really sure how that would even be possible. Insurance companies have to go through all kinds of things to get plans approved by each state. Our old plans are gone - period.</p>
<p>His plan? This is a plan?</p>
<p>No. This a is a campaign promise. Lol</p>
<p>Lets suppose that you were devising a ‘fix’. Something that was real, substantive and addresses not only problems that you know about but some that are going to come out. </p>
<p>Not just window dressing so that members of your party have talking points as cover when they go home for Thanksgiving break and get beaten up by constituents.</p>
<p>Is there any way that Sebelius keeps her job?</p>
<p>There has been a lot of criticism about this op-ed piece, but I’m posting it because the term (“smug insureds”) the author uses reminded me very much of what I’ve read on this thread. Individual policy holders should be happy to just suck it up, and how dare they complain about price increases.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/11/opinion/daring-to-complain-about-obamacare.html?_r=0[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/11/opinion/daring-to-complain-about-obamacare.html?_r=0</a></p>
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And then everyone will bear the pain. As it should be. And the taxpayers should start complaining about funding overly-generous health insurance plans for civil servants – bad enough that folks have to pay for their own increases and for the care of the poor one way or another (increased Medicaid and subsidies).</p>
<p>The WSJ is saying the fix will be allowing people to renew their cancelled plans. Indefinitely? Can the insurance companies turn the Titanic around? </p>
<p>For ACA to work, so many things had to work.</p>
<p>Millions had to sign up.</p>
<p>The right balance of people had to sign up in each state.</p>
<p>The website has to work well.</p>
<p>Most importantly, the majority of voters can’t be harmed so much that they are p. o’d enough to vote the bastards out.</p>
<p>Forcing those people into the exchange was a key piece of the ACA puzzle. The designers of the plan have said that would be a bad idea. But politcally necessary, I guess.</p>
<p>I like this part from the last link.</p>
<p>“Lori Gottlieb is a contributing editor for The Atlantic and a psychotherapist.”</p>
<p>I hope Lori found writing the opinion piece therapeutic.</p>
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<p>Absolutely. (I’m one of the few that doesn’t blame her.)</p>
<p>Plus, there is no way that a replacement could get through nomination hearings without days and days of discussions of the ACA implementation.</p>
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<p>The Prez/HHS can easily undo/lessen the regs that they implemented a few years ago that defined ‘compliant’ plans. It was those regs that have help to create the massive cancellations as insurers recognized it would not be financially viable to keep a bunch of non-compliant plans grandfathered.</p>
<p>I don’t blame her at all. I have no idea what it is she does all day, but I certainly don’t blame her for this mess. That’s way too easy.</p>
<p>“It was those regs that have help to create the massive cancellations as insurers recognized it would not be financially viable to keep a bunch of non-compliant plans grandfathered.”</p>
<p>Ok…so let’s day the regs are changed. Then what happens financially?</p>
<p>Keep in mind that the Jay Carney’s official position is that Obama was receiving regular briefings and Sebelius and Tavener were telling him everything was fine. But we know that everything wasnt fine. So the official position is that Sebelius was lying to Obama? </p>
<p>If the ‘fix’ isnt replacing her with someone real its just window dressing.</p>
<p>She still seems to think things are going swimmingly. LOL!</p>
<p>[AP</a> source: Obama to allow sale of canceled plans - Yahoo Finance](<a href=“http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ap-source-obama-allow-sale-canceled-plans-160317579--finance.html]AP”>http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ap-source-obama-allow-sale-canceled-plans-160317579--finance.html)</p>
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