if they couldn't make a package enticing enough for you to want to buy it, they went without that premium

Once the ACA went in, the government mandated that you had to have insurance or you had to pay a fine approximately equivalent to about a quarter's worth of insurance premiums, so the companies could get away with charging you whatever premium they wanted

additionally, the law required companies to offer insurance to people who were already sick, which is a problem that does need to be addressed, although I'd rather that be at state or municipality levels. So insurance companies were forced to take on clientele that were going to lose them money. A lot of that cost was absorbed through the mandate, since the young, healthy, and stupid people who were less likely to get sick had to buy the insurance, and they were enticed not to use it through unaffordable copays and deductibles

furthermore, the ACA made "catastrophic" plans illegal. Which meant that I couldn't go out and buy a plan for a couple hundred bucks a year that took care of me in the unlikely event that I have a heart attack at age 20. It forced everyone into a full insurance plan whether or not they were going to use it

Oh. So it massively distorted the market.

There were lower cost options provided through a government insurance collective, but for the most part, if you had a job, you were getting insurance through your employer and you were completely unable to use it. Pretty much anyone who made over a certain marker...let's say 20 grand, wasn't eligible for the government option

Oh. So it massively distorted the market.

yes

It’s like they tried to Jerry rig the market to deliver an ideological outcome.

it's not like that....that's exactly what they did

Oh.

If I could do what I want, I would just focus on R&D to figure out new methods of treatment and cost reductions for existing methods.

The purpose of the ACA was to drive premiums up so high that the general population would scream for single payer

which legitimately gives the government all control over who lives and who dies

I always point to UK death paneling those infants when discussing it with other people.

I had an almost hour interview on that bullshit story

Do you really think that was the goal?

I can't see any other end game

Ok. That somewhat makes sense

I've tried

I can't help but think there were major players in the Democrat party, Nancy Pelosi comes to mind, that were stupid enough to actually think that it was going to do what Obama et al claimed it would.

https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1041728207093985280

the replies to this post are hilarious

In some of the cases, it's harder than I thought to tell which replies are playing along, and which ones didn't get the joke.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-45502044

"We invented an organization specifically to give awards to women and a man *still* won"

Once again Matt doesn't make the cut.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/sep/18/report-youtubes-alternative-influence-network-breeds-rightwing-radicalisation

Lol

https://twitter.com/nickconfessore/status/1042082882917998592?s=19

Should send in articles that the NYT themselves publishes

I asked if we could. Lol

Just do it and see what happens. Lol

http://destructables.org/destructable/how-illegally-and-safely-cross-mexican-border-mexican-government

This is from an antifa site

wtf lol https://i.imgur.com/QePPNgs.png

Apparently whites regularly flee Mexico

Someone should do the same with the catapult.

Lol

Catapults with the letters ICE in white on the side of them

Lol. Vanilla ICE

Could it also catapult ice cream on holidays?