Can someone explain to me how the ACA is a success with all that is wrong with it?

[Wanda Bagram]

The whole scheme was risky enough to begin with— getting enough enrollees and making sure 40 percent are young and healthy. Obamacare is already far behind its own enrollment estimates. But things have gotten worse. The administration has been changing the rules repeatedly— with every scrimmage-line audible raising costs and diminishing revenue.

First, it postponed the employer mandate. Then, it exempted from the individual mandate people whose policies were canceled (by Obamacare). And for those who did join the exchanges, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is “strongly encouraging” insurers to — during the “transition”— cover doctors and drugs not included in their clients’ plans.

The insurers were stunned. Told to give free coverage. Deprived of their best customers. Forced to offer stripped-down “catastrophic” plans to over-30 clients (contrary to the law). These dictates, complained their spokesman, could “destabilize” the insurance market.

Translation: How are we going to survive this? Shrinking revenues and rising costs could bring on the “death spiral”— an unbalanced patient pool forcing huge premium increases (to restore revenue) that would further unbalance the patient pool as the young and healthy drop out.

End result? Insolvency, before which the insurance companies will pull out of Obamacare.

Solution? A huge government bailout. It’s Obamacare’s escape hatch. And— surprise, surprise— it’s already baked into the law.
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[Sarah]

Fun fact: Bush's Medicare Part D prescription drug plan was changed by Bush, without congress, more than a dozen times. Nevertheless, most Americans now support the program, even though there was great uneasiness and dissatisfaction with it at the time. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...01376.html


Republicans on roll out and changes to the Medicare Part D Law:

REP. JOE BARTON (R-TX): “This is a huge undertaking and there are going to be glitches. My goal is the same as yours: Get rid of the glitches. The committee will work closely with yourself and Dr. Mark McClellan at CMS to get problems noticed and solved.” [Barton Statement via Archive.org, 2/15/2006]
REP. TIM MURPHY (R-PA): “Any time something is new, there is going to be some glitches. All of us, when our children were new, well, we knew as parents we didn’t exactly know everything we were doing and we had a foul-up or two, but we persevered and our children turned out well. No matter what one does in life, when it is something new in learning the ropes of it, it is going to take a little adjustment.” [Murphy Floor Speech via Congressional Record, 4/6/2006]

REP. MICHAEL BURGESS (R-TX): “We can’t undo the past, but certainly they can make the argument that we are having this hearing a month late and perhaps we are, but the reality is the prescription drug benefit is 40 years late and seniors who signed up for Medicare those first days back in 1965 when they were 65 years of age are now 106 years of age waiting for that prescription drug benefit, so I hope it doesn’t take us that long to get this right and I don’t believe that it will. And I do believe that fundamentally it is a good plan.” [“Medicare Part D: Implementation of the New Drug Benefit,” 3/1/2006]

[RayHere]

''President'' Obama openly expressed how he feels about businesses in America ''you did not build that'' he is contemptuous of successful Americans looks on them as un-American what more do you need to hear and see? His supporters call us greedy racist their enemies they want people to crap in our mouths they see nothing wrong with this black knock out game they feel we have no right to defend ourselves when attacked by minorities are you going to wait till they take your wife and daughters to do with as they want? They are going to take your way of life away are you going to let them? This is your time to defend your way of life for you and your family

[Joseph]

The only way the ACA has been a success is that it has been the biggest step away from a free America and the biggest step towards socialism and also a crushed health care & economic system.

I laughed so hard when I saw a post on Facebook. It was a picture of a lady crying like a child and the quote was "I thought it was a good idea to make other people pay for my healthcare. Turns out, I was the other people.".