Quote: (10-02-2013 01:47 PM)It_is_my_time Wrote:
The data is all over the place. Company after company cutting workers directly due to it and others cutting hours directly due to it.
Where is your data that this will be good? A 1,200 page bill that takes aim at men and small/medium sized businesses is good to you. So where is your data that it is good? The emotional ploys of poor people getting healthcare at the cost of middle class men?
Why would you even try to have a debate about something that you've only learned about from sensationally biased media coverage that you sought out? You are making pretty strong claims that you
know what this legislation will lead to for the US economy and the healthcare industry when, in reality, you are simply regurgitating information.
Have you even read a single page of the 1,200 page bill you keep bringing up? Highly doubtful.
What is your background? What would even give you the gall to make that kind of statement? Do you even have any skin in the game?
Among many of the benefits that we actually do know, the ACA has extended insurance coverage to young adults - through their parents - until the age of 26. This demographic has been left pretty vulnerable as a result of the weak job market. Believe it or not, shit happens to young people. Good to know that if you somehow get bronchitis you can seek care without having to worry about finances if you're unemployed or underemployed.
ACA also makes prescription drugs cheaper for seniors by closing the "donut hole" in medicare. If you don't know what I mean by donut hole, then you really should recuse yourself from even having a discussion about ACA.
ACA also covers preventative health care visits (shots, cancer screenings) without those annoying and significant co-payments.
ACA actually provides tax credits to small businesses to increase coverage to employees and for those working employees that are too poor to afford their employers health care plan, they can sign up for ACA plans at no cost to their employers.
If you're going to make claims about the future with any reasonable degree of certitude, you owe it to yourself and to your audience to cite verifiable support, not just sensational opinion which anyone can glean by watching the same TV channels sans (your) filter.