How is ACA going to blow up?

[benld74]

GOP keeps repeating that, and I just don't get their so called logic.
GOP bill was BAD
How is ACA going to explode???

[C_U_L8R]

1. It's being kneecapped by Republicans

That's how.

[still_one]

2. Unfortunately, they could stop some of the funding to it, which doesn't require a repeal

[Qutzupalotl]

11. Yes...Trump is directing the IRS to not enforce the coverage mandate.

This will undermine the risk pool and lead to higher costs.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028845495

[still_one]

12. Hopefully we can regain the house in 2018, and that in the meantime enough people call

their representatives as they did regarding trumpcare to limit that damage and over rule trumpinstein

[unblock]

3. they'll find ways to undermine it and continue to insult it.

they'll hope they can make it unpopular enough to repeal it down the road.

i'm loving winning this battle, but the war with these *ssholes never ends....

[Justice]

4. Becomes harder to do so because people are so tuned into this now.

Much easier for Democrats to fight efforts to blow it up and publicize votes on destroying pieces of it.

[PoliticAverse]

5. Things like the ACA are subject to "death spirals"...

(see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_spiral_%28insurance%29 ) although the CBO recently expressed the opinion
that the ACA is stable (see: http://www.businessinsider.com/cbo-report-insurance-market-death-spiral-obamacare-trump-2017-3 ).

[Warpy]

6. Either it will be aggressively defunded via riders buried in other bills

or it will somehow be tied to current dollar amounts, inflation defunding it over time.

Remember, Medicaid when it started was to be a publicly funded insurance program for the working poor. It was tied to dollar amounts that were generous in the 1960s but represented total destitution by the 00s. Very few outside of elderly people in nursing homes who had run through their life savings or pregnant teenagers and their subsequent children qualified for it.

[milestogo]

7. Why do you believe anything they say?

The GOP is a bunch of lying assholes.

[Idoru]

8. In their dreams

Where alternative facts are an alternative reality.

[Else You Are Mad]

9. It won't.

Even with the Republicans attempts to destroy it, it will never self destruct. In fact, I think it never will go away. The Senate will never pass any bill that will pass the house because any such bill will be too far right and draconian and no bill that is left enough to pass the Senate will pass the House because of the in fighting between the moderates and the freedom caucus. It is one of the best catch 22s of all time.

[Amishman]

10. Insurance companies continue to take losses and withdraw

It's already happening, a bunch of exchanges are down to two or one option.

The problem isn't the ACA, it's the costs of the system. Sick people are too expensive under current billing and medical practices. We do still need reform, but not over who is paying, but on what is paid.