We know that the number of enrollees will rise as employers drop health care insurance and force their employees into the exchanges. Tens of millions will lose their employer-furnished insurance. It just makes good financial sense for the employers to drop healthcare insurance.
The real criteria should be how much will Obamacare insurance cost, the amount of deductibles and co-pays, etc. I suspect that the uninsured number will go up as people are priced out of the market. They will get insurance when they get really sick since preexisting conditions will no longer apply. And the cost of Obamacare to the taxpayers will skyrocket with the subsidies and a massive increase in Medicaid numbers.
And finally, as the government and the insurance companies suck up more discretionary funds from the consumer in the form of higher premiums, deductibles and co-pays along with higher taxes, our economy will suffer. The health care ecosystem is so complex and huge that we really will not know the unintended consequences of a government takeover of one-sixth of the economy. The roll out of Obamacare should give us a hint of how bad things will be when the government is in charge of such a complex program.
Right now, more people are losing their insurance, than those buying policies on the exchanges
The real criteria should be how much will Obamacare insurance cost, the amount of deductibles and co-pays, etc. I suspect that the uninsured number will go up as people are priced out of the market. They will get insurance when they get really sick since preexisting conditions will no longer apply. And the cost of Obamacare to the taxpayers will skyrocket with the subsidies and a massive increase in Medicaid numbers.
Agree.
Hannity the other night started to broach this with his liberal/conservative panel, but as usual got distracted and didn’t stay on point.
I agree with you but add the lower quality of healthcare we are going to have because of fewer doctors and government mandates as to care. Putting government in bed with doctors can never be a good thing for patients. Nor can punishing some hospitals over policy and eliminating charitable hospitals because they cannot adhere to government guidelines in patient care.
0bamacare may tell people they are now covered by health insurance but there is no way 0bamacare can guarantee a doctor will be there to provide it.