Reply #23: Look, I really think you are projecting, big time [View All]

[Oregone]

Because Ive really done no such thing. This isn't about *you*. It was an observation about policy

A thought behind government intervention, when they create a minimum standard for a necessary service, is that they would only intervene insofar as needed to allow someone to obtain such a standard (because after all, that is the level that they deem as necessary, and further help would therefore be considered wasteful).

It would follow that income based subsidies going to people in need would only effectively help people obtain the standard level the government sets, because their ability to go beyond that with the help of the subsidization suggests their need is overestimated. So, in many ways, the ability to buy beyond "bronze" suggests that the level of subsidization set by this program is in fact wasteful according to the very standards the government has set (BTW, I don't personally agree with such standards that the government set in the first place).

So will you be purchasing a "silver" level plan with your estimates, or higher? (now that question related to *you*)