Obamacare Fail # 1743 - no insurance til 2015

DHOHHI said:
Uhhh, sorry but with auto insurance other people don't pay for the slackers. If you want auto insurance you pay for it yourself.

Of course maybe Odumbo will next start giving out handouts to pay for auto insurance too.
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I thought it was inherent in the example that if healthy people wait until they got sick to sign up, then they were in fact gaming the system, which by common sense would cause premiums to rise across the board. For some reason on this site, you have to spell everything out for some people, including those who didn't learn anything past the 5th grade - which explains why they go into the military.

Do the Teadiots understand that there is no Emergency Room Fairy that pays for the uninsured when they show up? Do they know that uncompensated costs have led to the closing of hospitals which has led to overcrowding?

For the Teadiots who need a review of real conservatism on the mandate ( I couldn't find the original Heritage paper):
Original 1989 document where Heritage Foundation created Obamacare’s individual mandate. And to add, in order to have a mandate, there will have to be some sort of subsidizing to help out the poor. And no, there is no Subsidy Fairy.
 
Covertibility said:
... Do they know that uncompensated costs have led to the closing of hospitals which has led to overcrowding?
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In 1975, according to the Centers for Disease Control, there were 7,156 hospitals in the United States, including 3,339 non-profit hospitals (which would include those runs by religious organizations), 1,761 local- and state-government run hospitals and 775 for-profit hospitals.

In 2010, there were 5,754 hospitals — about 20 percent fewer than in 1975.

Non-profit hospitals decreased by 435; local and state government hospitals decreased by 693 — but for-profit hospitals increased by 238.

As government increased control of health care through Medicare and Medicaid, non-profit hospitals decreased and for-profit hospitals increased.
....And no, there is no Subsidy Fairy.
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Nope, just us productive tax payers. Getting shafted, yet again.
 
bigarrow said:
Bullshit. He was wrong on the number of hospitals but the main point was valid...
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"...including those who didn't learn anything past the 5th grade - which explains why they go into the military..."

THAT part?
 
Fewer Emergency Rooms Available as Need Rises

Hospital emergency rooms, particularly those serving the urban poor, are closing at an alarming rate even as emergency visits are rising, according to a report published on Tuesday.

Urban and suburban areas have lost a quarter of their hospital emergency departments over the last 20 years, according to the study, in The Journal of the American Medical Association. In 1990, there were 2,446 hospitals with emergency departments in nonrural areas. That number dropped to 1,779 in 2009, even as the total number of emergency room visits nationwide increased by roughly 35 percent.

“Some people think, ‘As long as my emergency room isn’t closing, I feel O.K. and protected,’ ” said Dr. Hsia, whose research was financed by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. “But even if they don’t lose the E.R. in their own neighborhood, they do experience the effect of fewer emergency rooms — the waits get longer and longer, and people’s outcomes get worse.”

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Woe to Jim DeMint's Emergency Room Solution.
 
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