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Originally Posted by pricejj
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How is taking 2.5% of my pay away (Obamacare tax), and redistributing it to someone else in the form of over-priced healthcare (without them having to do anything for it), a "good thing"? |
So how would the republicans bring down the cost of HC? What is their plan?
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It's not a good thing. It's bad for me, and bad for everyone else, who now has to pay a higher marginal cost for healthcare created by my dollars that someone else is using. The subsidized person receiving my money never would have purchased the product at that cost, without my redistributed money.
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Very few would get any "redistributed money" under the AHCA -- those who cannot afford to but insurance on their own. And if those folks don't have insurance they use the ER and we pay for that anyway, so your whining about paying for the HC of others is pointless. Under the current system you already are. And the republicans would do nothing to change that.
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It's precisely why Socialist redistribution policies don't work...they destroy competition, and disable the invisible hand. There is literally no point in the equation, where the price of healthcare goods is competitive.
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Under the AHCA, everyone buys private insurance. Insurance companies will compete for customers. The invisible hand continues to function.
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That can begin to change that by repealing Obamacare, and giving block grant funding to Seniors, in order that they can pay out of pocket for healthcare services, including health insurance, if they wish.
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I don't see how that is a solution to getting everyone insured.