So “no pre-existing conditions” is still in place, but the individual mandate will be axed. The cost figures were based, erroneously I might add, on the fines driving people to acquire coverage. Without the mandate in place there is no good reason to purchase coverage for those who didn’t want insurance in the first place.
Thus, the insurance companies are left holding the bag. They are forced to offer more expensive plans with fewer people enrolled, but the pool of people covered is effectively expanded.
It was clear from the beginning that the whole ACA was intended to drive the insurance companies out of the health care market and “force” the government to step in with single payer.
No worries for the insurance companies. They have the "risk corridors" to subsidize their losses. They'll make out like bandits.
This sentence makes sense to you?
I know that most liberals have a remarkable inability to think logically, or to foresee the most obvious consequences of liberal policies, but isn't it likely that at least a few liberals will put 2 and 2 together and realize that the government's incompetence at running the medical insurance industry indicates that it will also not be competent at running the health care industry?
Seriously, what do the lawyers running the government know about health care?