Are you disputing that millions more people have coverage now than before the ACA was enacted? That's indisputably true, sorry. For the millions who have healthcare who didn't before it turned out pretty damn good, to answer your question.
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Yeah its easy. An alternator will blow out the diode ring. Easy fix.
Same with starters... the brushes go bad. $3 fix.
Talk about the millionaire next door.... I knew a man that had more money than god and put 6 kids threw college (and bought each of them a brand new car for their 18th birthday) off a small auto electric shop. He'd take the core, soak it in parts cleaner, spray it with silver paint, change the diodes (or brushes if it was a starter) and swap em out all day long for $150 minimum. Pure profit... and he was busy from open until close. The man had his house insulated with $20 bills. Couldn't spend money fast enough.
That's very interesting. We have an old shop here run but a couple geezers. Everyone takes their starters and alternators to them to be tested. There basically located in a shack. Their walls are lined with every kind and type of starter and alternator. I wonder if that is what they are doing. Just putting in new diodes and brushes and spray painting the shells. Any suggestions on where to buy the diode kits would be appreciated. two years ago I paid Midas to put a new alternator in my 22 year-old Nissan pickup. $600 bucks!
Yeah you can get em anywhere... i just did a quick google search for ya.... these are gm but google/ebay/amzn is your friend
http://www.ebay.com/bhp/alternator-rebuild-kit
I see on that page they even have Denso starter kits for $7.99.
Price changing a Honda starter at Midas.
http://www.ebay.com/bhp/starter-rebuild-kit
Yeah thats what they're doing. Its legit.
Its not any different than when you buy an alternator at AZO and turn in your core. They do the same thing. They send em out to a company that soaks em, paints em, puts in the diodes and bearings... and they send em back to AZO to be re-sold as re-manufactured.
That's what happend when you try and succed to gather as much hate and cringe onto you as posible
.....and if my time is worth $500/hr how do these little stories pan out ?
Generally like your insight but.....for the majority of situations if the ACA subsidies plus the premium paid by the newly insured had just gone toward market policies the net coverage would have be better for less cost.
Not to mention that the premium paid under ACA is exploding with some markets totally closed i.e. parts of TN. With insurers totally walking away.