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Originally Posted by Helix
How is this ACA a good thing for the country?
Too expensive. Rates are climbing.
Has a stifling effect on job growth.
We didn't have a choice to opt out.
Invasion of privacy.
Why did it get rolled out nationwide instead of a controlled pilot program to iron out the bugs?
This is a very ill conceived and executed program.
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actually rates are going down, we had two people here that got on the system said the rates were lower than what they are paying. Also tell that to someone who now has coverage who didnt before or couldnt afford coverage now can because of the ACA.
As far as Jobs
http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bull...ler-8221/31363
"There have been some reports that businesses are reducing employee hours, and some have even shifted part timers from corporate plans to the ACA?s exchanges. However, Disney announced this week that it was making some part-time employees full time. History tells us that employer-supported coverage increased and there was no significant decrease in hiring in Massachusetts after Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney enacted a very similar law.
?The current data do not show the health law affecting job growth, wage growth or the proportion of part-timers in the labor force,? The Times wrote. It concluded that it?s simply too soon to tell, because portions of the law are not in force such as Medicaid expansions in roughly half the states, subsidized insurance exchanges, and the mandate on some employers to provide insurance coverage.
?Both sides are being hyperbolic - Democrats on the effects on health costs and Republicans on the effects on jobs,? said Dr. Mankiw. ?The data are not really there to reach any firm conclusions.? Any assertion that the health law is destroying jobs is ?a hypothesis? that doesn?t accurately reflect what will happen, he explained."