Posted on 10/26/2016 9:12:50 PM PDT by Helicondelta
'The law's working as designed. . . However, it could work better. . . we need a larger mandate penalty.'
Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber joined CNN on Wednesday morning to say the best way to fix the failing health-care law he engineered would be to increase the “penalty.”
A recent study found that Obamacare insurance plans will cost many Americans about 22 percent more next year. For some — like those in Phoenix, Arizona — the cost is much worse, about a 145 percent increase. Since the news broke earlier this week, the Obama administration has frantically been trying to spin the news.
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I agree. The increased penalty should be Zero and Gruber go to prison for the rest of their natural lives.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
Good riddance you POS.
Of course he thinks that - the whole concept is based on forcing everyone to buy insurance so the pool is as big as it can possibly be. Allowing people to opt out with a penalty defeats the intention, so since they can’t literally force people to buy they will make the penalties so onerous they will have no choice.
With the breaking of each new dawn real-life America is turning into the final chapters of Atlas Shrugged.
Demonicrats tax, squander and penalize the peewaddleydew out of everybody while demonizing the insurance industry for not wanting to insure against perils that already exist, rather than those that may or may not materialize. The insanity continues unabated!!!
Screw the Penalties. Hide your money and go on Medicaid.
What ever happened to Saddam Husseins’ plastic shredders?
Let’s not forget the crooks that voted for it, so they could, you know - find out what’s in it.
So what would we do differently.
It was absurdly not fair, before. The government mandates so much, yet all the providers are out to maximize there own profits.
What would we as the GOP, do differently? Do not simply criticize the alternative, if we have no idea ourselves how to fix things.
Either propose an alternative, or please do not say a word. One or the other.
Just my opinion.
As everybody should know, but too quickly forget... NOT ONE REPELLICAN EVER VOTED FOR IT!!!
FU Gruber you bastard. I have no insurance because I can not afford it and did not pay the penalty last year because our income level was below what you have to have to be penalized.
Also Gruber if I did go to the doctor I paid my bill so I am not free loading you ahole.
P.S. Go to hell Gruber and you are the free loader taking tax payer money for your half baked ideas you suck.
Arrogant elite liberal bassturds deliberately ignore the main reason why healthy young people don’t sign up for Obolacare, is because the US economy is in a bad *recession with high unemployment!
*a rocking stock market does not indicate national economic health.
A third of those under 30 can’t find good paying jobs, and are forced to live with their parents.
The real Labor U6 unemployment rate is 22+%, not 5%.
93 Million working age adults are NOT employed full time.
HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of foreign H1B workers have taken the jobs that Americans need to have in order to ensure a sound economy and social order.
I Hate Liberals.
The F@ck Everything.
A nice penalty would be gruber hanging from a bridge
He wants to make the penalty 100% of a person’s annual earnings. They and their families will die of starvation as a result, but they will have great health care up till the end.
Zeke Emmanuel wants to lower the population of the United States and the world. The simplest way to do so is to kill freedom because if he does that, he and his ilk can then kill anyone they want.
Gruberize this bastard—right into prison.
Are you trying to limit "Free Speech?" Well, ok then, how about Health Savings Accounts and making all premiums fully tax deductible as an inducement?
How 'bout getting the Fed to put interest rates back at around 4 to 5 percent so insurers can make a reasonable profit between the time they get the money and the time they have to pay the first claim?
And finally, stop craming all the liberal social and lifestyle rehab programs and liberal causes into the plan of coverage?
Bass turds -
Arrogant Obama supporter and Obamacare co-author Aetna Insurance CEO opines:
“Young people can do the math. Gas for the car, beer on Fridays and Saturdays...”
http://www.sj-r.com/news/20161026/aetna-exec-predicts-fewer-young-people-in-health-exchanges
Aetna exec predicts fewer young people in health exchanges
Wednesday Posted Oct 26, 2016 at 10:13 AM Updated at 2:51 PM
By Zachary Tracer and Katherine Doherty, Washington Post News Service
NEW YORK - Healthier people will avoid buying Affordable Care Act health insurance plans as premiums climb, threatening the stability of the market, Aetna Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Bertolini said.
“As the rates rise, the healthier people pull out because the out-of-pocket costs aren’t worth it,” Bertolini said at Bloomberg’s The Year Ahead Summit in New York. “Young people can do the math. Gas for the car, beer on Fridays and Saturdays, health insurance.”
Premiums for health plans sold to individuals under the ACA, known as Obamacare, are going up by about 25 percent on average for next year. Bertolini said that as costs rise, more individuals will decide not to buy health plans. That’ll push premiums even higher, unless a new president and lawmakers can find fixes for the new markets created by the 2010 health law.
“What happens is the population gets sicker and sicker and sicker and sicker,” Bertolini said. “The rates keep rising to try and catch it. It’s a fruitless chase, and ultimately you end up with a very bad pool of risk.”
The government has emphasized that subsidies are available for many people to help cushion the premium increases. When they are taken into account, about 77 percent of current ACA enrollees will be able to buy health insurance for $100 or less a month, the U.S. said in a report on Monday.
Please do it. Crush the citizens. That’s the ticket!
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