No they don't, it is in a business' self interest to do what their customers want, which is generally the "right" thing.Originally Posted by Latrinsorm
When a pig named Snowball dictates what is right or wrong... well yes, then you might have to use force. Remember, when your solution to a problem starts with "The government should force..." you've proven yourself an enlightened individual.
Obamacare is a big fuckup, trying to stop it is a waste of time, let it happen and prove to be a big fuckup, it'll be a hard lesson but apparently the electorate has to learn it.
Most liberals cheerleader for Obamacare without understanding it, especially without understanding how it doesn't cover all the uninsured (the most recent estimates say it'll cover an additional 11m people, out of 50m supposedly uninsured), will not prevent people from going bankrupt from medical bills, will not lower healthcare costs, and generally is the worst possible way to get universal coverage, it fixes nothing. They're annoying in the same way liberals who carry Obama's foreign policy water would have been foaming at the mouth if it was McCain in office doing the exact same things.
Likewise, most conservatives hate Obamacare because socialism, and taxes, and spending, and while they are technically accurate in trying Obamacare to taxes and spending, those are pretty broad targets and hard to miss. Most can't articulate the true problems with it, why they're problems, and what an alternative would be. Even John McCain, who ran for president, on a platform that included a healthcare plan, that was at the time time more socialist than Obamacare, and better than Obamacare, and would have covered more people than Obamacare, probably couldn't articulate any details about it.
Why? With few exceptions, the people in Washington are power hungry idiots who care only for partisan battles and not for policy, and the electorate is largely incapable for thinking for themselves and instead takes their cues from celebrities and talking heads.
But anyways, if anyone here would like some actual information, on yet another Obamacare fuckup.
http://healthblog.ncpa.org/out-of-po...rnia-exchange/ its a great example of how insurance works and how humans behave and how our system is incentivizing the wrong behavior.
The individual mandate lacks teeth, the insurance plans offered in the exchanges favor healthy individuals, this is going to result in people self selecting into different risk pools and for the sickest to self select into specific risk pools that, because the individual mandate lacks teeth and the exchange offerings, will not have enough healthy people off setting their consumption. Premiums will rise astronomically, the government well will run dry and unless you think Democrats are going to gain a supermajority in both houses increasing subsidies is not going to happen. The thing is going to implode, especially since the law does absolutely nothing about medical cost inflation, which is the actual true problem that needs to be addressed (uninsured people are simply a result of people being priced out of the insurance market due to medical cost inflation).
The saddest part of all of this, I think if it were called "Bushcare" and Bush had passed this exact same law in 2007, I think Washington would at least have the stomach to fix it.
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