Boehner enrolls in "Obamacare"

[Michchamp]

link. based on this article, his health premiums are a lot cheaper under the ACA than they otherwise would be for a 64-year-old heavy-smoker. lucky him!

of course, he didn't say that. he just complained about how he got a couple error messages during what was otherwise a successful sign up process.

You just can't please some people!

 

[tinselwolverine]

link. based on this article, his health premiums are a lot cheaper under the ACA than they otherwise would be for a 64-year-old heavy-smoker. lucky him!

of course, he didn't say that. he just complained about how he got a couple error messages during what was otherwise a successful sign up process.

You just can't please some people!

That's not necessarily the case.

If a 64 year old heavy smoker were covered in a risk pool in a good emloyer provided health care plan (which are getting less good and fewer and further between), their premiums would probably still be pretty reasonable.

Beyond that, the 64 year old would be eligible for medicare in one year - still are under the ACA, and still would have been without it - for which there are no premium payments.

As a society, we WANT medicare recipients to behave as unhealthily as possible, so they can die sooner and we can stop paying for the substantial majority of their health care.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Finally, some fuckin' Republicans are starting to express ideas about addressing what was the major flaw in our health care system before Obamacare - set up some form of social safety net for people who were not old enough yet for medicare, who had done everything "right" - built up equity in their homes, had some savings, etc; who weren't covered under an employer plan and through no fault of their own, had a pre-existing condition that made getting insurance either monumentally expensive or impossible - so people like that didn't face the possibility of being wiped out because of an illness (boy that was a long sentence, huh?).

I just heard Michelle Bachman talking about this idea; first lucid thing I may have ever heard that woman say; up until then it was rambling on about Obama's dog, and dumb shit like that.

Where the hell has she been?