Obamacare in its last week. What is your final decision about the health care system?

[rosario]

After 6 millions people's apply they prolonged the perion one week. What do you think will be the outcome and What is your final decision about Obamacare?

[Surfinforlife]

Honestly, we have a lot of uneducated voters here in the United States.. it's really sad. My opinion is this is another one of Obama's socialism practices. This country will no longer be for the people, by the people but rather for the elite, by the elite. As a student studying pre med, I have family members who are doctors, many friends who are doctors, and friends in college majoring pre med... it's no question that this new Obama Care will really cause the medical career field to go down the shitter. Anyone wanting to be a doctor for the money should really reconsider the career field cause it won't be the same with with Obama Care in effect. Now if you're still wanting to pursue the medical fields then you have a lot of heart for the job so more power to you.

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." -Thomas Jefferson

[Anonymous]

6.2+ million had their insurance cancelled for not meeting the requirements of Obamacare, so statistically we are still behind. Plus, the turn out of young and healthy people to enroll in order to wasn't what they expected. Frankly, I can't help but feel like these were fudged numbers because all this administration does is lie to us. This healthcare plan isn't to better America or it's citizens at all, it is just a tool to redistribute the wealth. My final decision about Obamacare is that it will hurt more than it will help.

[kodekin]

Also that redistribution isn't from the wealthy to the poor. It's from the healthy to the unhealthy, or young to old - recipe for disaster!

[Opinion Owner]

Exactly.

[jacquesvol]

Not 6.2 million:
Two experts at the Urban Institute have crunched the best numbers we have, and their conclusion is that 2.6 million policies were canceled because of noncompliance with the ACA -- but that more than half the policyholders were eligible for subsidized, low-cost replacement insurance. In other words, slightly more than 1 million individuals or families had their insurance canceled and had to pay the full premium to replace it.

www.latimes.com/.../...ed-20140307,0,3725306.story

Stop posting LIES, please.

[jacquesvol]

The decision to cancel policies wasn't the Administration's decision. Companies grappled the excuse to 'clean' their portfolio or offered substandard contracts.

[Opinion Owner]

Hi. You don't live in America, and you aren't affected by any of these changes at all. You are clearly of the Liberal/Socialist/Progressive/maybe Communist agenda. I have never heard of the Urban Institute, and there is no "we" seeing again as you aren't American . The law that was passed isn't the law that it is now due to Obama basically butchering the law and Executive Ordering it into his own little utopia of a law. Please stop chiming in on American issues.

[EmeraldSky]

The whole idea of Obamacare is stupid and it should be repealed A.S.A.P.
Lucky for me, I'm on a parent's insurance, but if I'm being forced to pay for an insurance package that I will not be using over 50% of the time; I'm going to raise hell.

[Anonymous]

I don't think that Obamacare will not get what they anticipated. I will continue on with what I have.

[26ukdude]

Just bloody get an NHS, you guys spend nearly 700 billion dollars a year on defence, more than the next top 5 countries in the world put together. I hate to see people who are literally dieing because it costs to see a doctor and get treated, while more money is being ploughed into things that DO kill people.
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[COCOCHANEL]

exactly

[Anonymous]

I have been paying for my own healthcare for years so Obamacare will only hurt me because now I also have to pay for the healthcare of others, have fewer choices and in the long run lower quality of and access to care. The only people who are better off with Obamacare are those who in the past wanted healthcare coverage but didn't have it. For the rest of us, we are fucked because we not only have to pay for what we did have, but also pay for what those other people didn't have. It will become increasingly clear over the next few years that we will be paying more and more for less and less. That is an inescapable fact.

Being in the healthcare industry myself, none of this comes as any surprise to me. I have, however, talked with a shitload of people who are disillusioned and pissed off about what they though would be an improvement over what they had.

[yaddayaddayadda02]

Same as it was before. An unnecessary government intrusion into the lives of US citizens, forced down our throat by idiots who couldn't be bothered to read the whole thing, will only increase costs and lower service for healthcare.

[RasmusAiken]

If you like higher premiums that overcharge young healthy people and subsidize fat couch potato boomers and enjoy seeing non-physicians and waiting longer in waiting rooms reading last year's Forbes magazines, you will absolutely love Obamacare. I've opted out.

[Prof_Don]

I feel Obamacare will be rescinded in 2016 when a new president takes office...there's been too much backlash about it.

Young healthy people aren't signing up because the tax penalty this year is only 1% of annual income or $95 (whichever is greater).

P.S. I'm licensed in health insurance.

[jacquesvol]

the tax penalty is too low, indeed.

[Prof_Don]

The penalty escalates each subsequent year, in 2016 the tax penalty is set to be $695!

[Prof_Don]

Obamacare would be a lot more palatable to the American public if they weren't FORCED to buy health insurance.

[Anonymous]

It is way too soon for people to say that Obamacare is a good thing. Much like other government programs in the past, Obamacare is going to end up costing our country many times more than they estimated/flat out lied about.

[Anonymous]

America is the only developed country where health care is expensive. instead I think that with Obamacare, there'll be more equality between people or all origins for health treatment!
More people should definitely sign up to it!

[Theguyoverthere]

Luckily I have medical benefits through my job so I don't have to deal with it. But from what I hear, it's just a disaster.

[Prof_Don]

Check on changes to your medical benefits in the following years; I have seen personally that companies are changing their benefits to cheaper plans with watered down coverages.

[bh6676r942]

It think it will cause higher taxes hurt the economy and cost jobs and result in higer premiums

[Anonymous]

Kiss on the neck