Supporters of Obamacare

[BanginJimmy]

With a larger pool of people, the risk dispersed amongst a larger base, so you cannot just say that costs will rise. You would need some hard numbers to properly speculate on this. It is probable that the rates will rise - as they currently do - simply because the insurance companies need to show growth to their shareholders to have their stock prices increase. Nothing will change that.

Many of those people that are currently uninsured are not covered because they are high risk and an existing condition makes the rates too high for them, or they are denied coverage. Add those people to the roles of insurance companies and forcing insurance companies to charge them the same rate as everyone else in that demographic will lead to rise in rates.

Additional fees will be added on - with or without the additional people being insured by private companies - this is already happening. Taxes will rise whether or not this healthcare bill passes. That is a known issue that we will have to face.

OK, so we have the inevitable rise in taxes on insurance companies. Then you want to add even more risk to those companies? I thought this bill was about lowering health care costs, not raising them. Oh yea, the people pushing this hardest have already said they want a single payer system.

Doctors are already refusing to take Medicare, as Medicare is reducing payments by 21% - I posted an article on this a few days ago.

I missed the article, but makes my point even stronger. You have the so called "doctor fix", then an additional 500B in cuts to medicare. How many more docs are going to just quit accepting it? 3 years after benefits start on this bill, I see Congress coming out with a bill that requires all docs to accept medicare because so many will drop it to keep their prices lower and profits higher.