Pay it or pay the fine.
The economic impact of this only applies to people who actually pay for private health insurance. Those people are so few in number that they do not matter as a voting block.
ACA has created a pool of very costly people who don’t pay anything that is shared only by the very small number of us who are self-employed or have private health care insurance. It is clear we are not a large enough voting block to be of the slightest bit of concern to politicians. Health insurance must either include preferred low risk groups and all others left to something else or EVERYONE. There is no successful in between way to make it work. That means we have either single payer or nothing and a competitive market. Nothing else will work.
I was once in a risk pool with BCBS that I could afford. Now I am in a risk pool that has droves of irresponsible and unfortunate people who don’t pay, are deathly ill and could never have had coverage under any risk pool. I am one of a SHRINKING NUMBER of people who are self-employed or retired and waiting for 65 who are paying a LARGER SHARE of EVER INCREASING COSTS. Once more the independent people and successful people are being pilloried while the interest groups that have enough money to get your attention do.
As for this person given as an example of someone helped by barky care and expanded medicade:
“average chemotherapy cost is $29,000 a month with a 90 percent chance the boy’s tumor will return. Their family utilizes Medicaid to help cover those costs for her son, and she shared with my office that she was concerned about how the healthcare proposals could affect Medicaid. “
It is a shame but he should be allowed to die with some peace and dignity. All medicine is doing is harvesting our money on the back of misplaced emotions. Some say we should not play God. Aren’t we already?