Forbes article "ways to protect yourself against Obamacare"

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Income based premiums makes it more affordable for those with preexisting conditions but it doesn't lower the actual cost of their care. Who is going to pay for the cost of that care? In an insurance market, you can't just lower the amount one group pays without bringing in more revenue from somewhere else to counterbalance it. The money must either come from increased premiums for everyone else or by expanding the number of people in the market. Also without the mandate, why should healthy people pay for insurance when they can sign up the day after they get a condition?

There is nothing anywhere in Obamacare that will lower costs. It is only shifting the current costs and the costs of the new mandates on to someone else. Eliminating Obamacare and insuring the people with pre existing conditions through medicare will be far cheaper. As for solvency of medicare, its time to goto income based premiums, or even eligibility, for that also.

Ah, I was wondering why some many red states were voluntarily giving power to the federal gov. Thanks for clarifying that.

This may be a huge economic boom for those states as mobile employers will be able to avoid all of the extra taxes and fines.

Wouldn't that make it more likely to get fixed since the house is republican controlled and they claim lowering the deficit is a top priority?

Republican House now as more ammo to attack Obamacare. Dems dont care about deficits so it wont be repealed outright, but GOP now has a chance to actually replace it with something that may actually work to reduce the costs.