Originally Posted by
cwolff
It's good to get the poor insured especially if the cost is defrayed across 10s of millions of people.
That sounds like any social safety net program. We'll have to see how this affects overall health care costs. It could take years to know and it's a complex system and the end results are not clear. I agree that if ACA ends up just costing a shit ton of money and not lowering health care costs or getting people insured then it will be a real problem.
People wouldn't have car insurance if we let them. Many still don't. There can be a debate about how much personal responsibility each citizen can have in these areas and I'm sure it will continue to be debated. Right now, catastrophic coverage only is not permissible. Maybe it will be in the future.
In CA, super low and zero income people are put on MediCal. They're aren't allowed to sign up for a subsidized ACA approved health plan through a private insurance company. I find this hilarious because those numbers are counted for Obamacare but they could have signed up for MediCal anyway.
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