HHS finalizes rule guaranteeing 100 percent funding for new Medicaid beneficiaries

[Cal Carpenter]

15. Are you denying that there are millions who will not have access to affordable care

when the ACA is fully implemented?

Your percentages are not a 'counterpoint' to the dollar amounts I am using. They are apples and oranges. To lower-income person or family, whether it is 2% or 5% or 20%, it doesn't matter. It's the $10 or $50 or, say, $8,411.28 (see my post #13) that matters. One major medical emergency can get them to that point.

The fact is, the benchmark plans from the state Exchanges will have high o-o-p costs. Better plans are available for higher costs that are not subsidized.

Once again, I suppose I must repeat, there are millions of low-income workers who will not be able to afford health care after the ACA is fully implemented. You seem to be trying to argue that this is not the case.

I don't see anything wrong with looking at this act objectively to see what it's real outcomes will be. And for people in this income range who get the impression from folks like you that everything really will be affordable, well, I guess they'll have to learn the hard way.