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Lets say apples cost $10.
Theres 100 people who need apples, but only 50 people are paying for every person to have one.
So each person paying is paying double what they should have to.
The government passes a law saying everyone needs to contribute into the apple fund, thereby distributing the costs more evenly across the populace. The law also has regulations concerning what the apple corporation is allowed to charge per apple.
In response to the new costs the business is taking on, it attempts to protect profits by scaring everyone into thinking apple prices will skyrocket if the law is passed (and even years afterward).
I'm not sure whats so difficult to understand about this. With everyone paying into the system, its cheaper for everyone. The multi-trillion dollar healthcare industry knows this, but also knows its profits will take a dive when they are forced to insure people who might actually get sick.
Costs are going to rise initially, then fall, and stabilize. Its basic mathematics.
Lets say apples cost $10.
Theres 100 people who need apples, but only 50 people are paying for every person to have one.
So each person paying is paying double what they should have to.
The government passes a law saying everyone needs to contribute into the apple fund, thereby distributing the costs more evenly across the populace. The law also has regulations concerning what the apple corporation is allowed to charge per apple.
In response to the new costs the business is taking on, it attempts to protect profits by scaring everyone into thinking apple prices will skyrocket if the law is passed (and even years afterward).
I'm not sure whats so difficult to understand about this. With everyone paying into the system, its cheaper for everyone. The multi-trillion dollar healthcare industry knows this, but also knows its profits will take a dive when they are forced to insure people who might actually get sick.
Costs are going to rise initially, then fall, and stabilize. Its basic mathematics.
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You have it completely backwards, as we would expect of a liberal.
When there is a limited supply (healthcare) and there is a marked increase in demand (more insured), prices go up. It is what we call "supply and demand". Is that simple enough for you?
Now if we charge people who do not utilize or need healthcare (the young) to pay for the healthcare that others need (older patients and those with medical problems), we are asking a group of citizens to pay for something they do not want or need. That is what we call a protection racket- corercion to pay for nothing or suffer a penalty (I will break your legs or burn your business). Others (liberals) might call this a "wealth redistribution plan", which is exactly what Obamacare is. Obamacare has little to do with implementing healthcare and covering lives (as we have seen) but has more to do with raising premium costs and deductibles for those currently with insurance, redistributing wealth to others.
If the above was not so, then why in the world were the 40 million "uninsured" not simply rolled into Medicare?
And the OP needs to explain who is going to pay for the apples that the free loaders are eating? And why the free loaders are first in line at the apple cart?
You do understand 30,000,000 will still be uninsured....
Nope, guess not....
Better than 50 million people uninsured and 129 million people with pre-existing conditions. Shame the Republicans tried so hard to block the other 30 million people from also being covered.
that is perhaps THE stupidest thing you have ever said.
That is not true that statement is not even in the top ten
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