Cruz tax plan
March 7, 2016 at 12:11 pm
(This post was last modified: March 7, 2016 at 12:14 pm by KUSA.)
(March 7, 2016 at 5:51 am)Aractus Wrote: Absolutely not. USA does not have universal healthcare, therefore people who get a chronic NCD that requires ongoing treatment such as cancer will need private health cover, and as there's no way to know in advance whether a person will get cancer or some other expensive health problem in the future, they need to be protected now in the present. The penalties could conceivably be abolished in the future at such time that universal healthcare does exist, however that's not going to happen any time soon.
The penalties can not be abolished because it is necessary to force people into buying the crap so the whole thing can be funded. Also, if people were not forced to get it, they would just sign up when they go an illness.
Quote:You're a complete idiot if you actually believe that. The main thing Obamacare did that was of benefit for people was to ensure that insurance companies could not refuse cover. That has two effects: firstly, and most importantly, it means those previously denied cover because they were already sick or "high risk" patients are able to have the same access to healthcare as everyone else. Secondly, as a result of this it means there are now more healthcare consumers in a finite system putting greater pressure on hospitals and consequently making the service worse for everyone else. Both those things are true. But the goal is not to provide a better service for everyone, it's to ensure that everyone has access to an equitable service for expensive life-threatening illnesses.
You are a complete idiot and a cunt regardless of what you believe.
Although there were some positive things in the plan, it benefited the insurance companies more than anything else. They now have all the young low risk people paying into it forcibly. $$$$$
