How will Obamacare kill jobs?

TellyKNeasuss said:
The US system has excessive overhead. Most health insurance in the US <snip>
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Thank you for this interesting info. I knew your system was complicated and inefficient but I didn't know these details.

When I said that people here pay towards national healthcare systems, I should have added that UK employers also pay into the scheme for each of their employees, but I think the employer rate is different, if you are interested you can check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Insurance but I can't be bothered to plough through it :)

Like your nick!!
 
Francesca R said:
I thought the historical record showed that it was pretty much a piece of cake for the Americans to kick England's arse out. Or even a tea party.
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:D

But I think they were fighting the UK, rather than just England as the UK was formed in 1707, a while before our offspring grew up and went their own way :)

As Scotland votes to break up the UK I hope we don't resort to muskets, and we like our tea too much to dump it in the Clyde ;)
 
Kingdom of GB I think, to be precise. OK then--you got your arses whopped too.

(I'm a Kiwi by birth, which wasn't even a colony then, and we didn't need ammo for independence when it came. Good luck/best of British . . . :) )
 
Francesca R said:
Kingdom of GB I think, to be precise. OK then--you got your arses whopped too.

(I'm a Kiwi by birth, which wasn't even a colony then, and we didn't need ammo for independence when it came. Good luck/best of British . . . :) )
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Touché :D Yes, KGB, Ireland weren't with us until later!

Back over to the Independence thread now to discuss Cameron's visit here today!
 
Travis said:
So that people, such as myself, that currently can't get private health insurance will have the opportunity to get some. And with a large risk pool the cost to do so would actually be low.
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Is it general knowledge out there that if you're middle-aged and your insurance lapses, you become virtually uninsurable outside of the traditional job-with-benefits structure?

Cross my fingers, for a fairly steep price, as of March 1, the U.S. government will allow me to buy insurance. Meanwhile the GOP candidates are falling all over themselves promising to make sure I remain uninsurable.

I don't think this is a winning position for them. "Job-killing, government-controlled health care" is meant to sound like a boogeyman, but I think the Republican candidates honestly don't see that "private-sector market solutions" may be just as terrifying, if not more so, to average folks - even conservative ones. We all know we're going to age and things are going to go wrong. We're already paying for it. Why not put everyone in a big pool and see what we can do by eliminating "free riders." The conservatives invented this model, duh!

ETA: Hard to stay on topic on this subject. Every thread becomes about how dysfunctional the system is. Will it kill some jobs, probably, like Mitt says, creative destruction. But the portability of benefits will help compensate for that.
 
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