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PoliticAverse

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3. That article misses the real problem. The "risk corridor" payments wouldn't be necessary...

Reply to Eliot Rosewater (Original post)

Wed Feb 15, 2017, 08:23 PM

Feb 2017

if enough healthy people had signed up to offset the unhealthy people who did. Enough healthy people didn't
sign up simply because the penalties for not signing up were intentionally set too low in the ACA. Universal
health insurance requires healthy people to subsidize unhealthy ones.

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If you ever wonder why ACA is struggling... [View all] Eliot Rosewater Feb 2017 OP

Very informative article about the ACA, and taxpayers & insurance companies - thanks. jmg257 Feb 2017 #1

Pass it on, most people dont know why ACA struggles. Eliot Rosewater Feb 2017 #2

That article misses the real problem. The "risk corridor" payments wouldn't be necessary... PoliticAverse Feb 2017 #3

Thom Hartmann explained this in detail some time ago rickford66 Feb 2017 #4