KevinG

Actually the requirement to buy health insurance is to protect others. Buy having everyone buy insurance protects people from higher healthcare costs. Americans are required you pay taxes. In essence buy services (police, fire, roads, school, etc). The difference with ACA is you actually get a choice of the service.

Ok, not much difference. Let me revise my statement. It is foolish to think there is not much difference between run and mandated. There is a huge difference. Government run healthcare implies the government maintains the policies and has a say in healthcare decisions. Mandated means the government requires you to buy insurance. In my state (WI) we are required by law to have car insurance, yet no one has ever referred to it as State run car insurance. You may not like the mandated aspect, but it doesn't mean the government runs your healthcare.

Whatever gets you through the night, I guess. Mandated does not equal run. It is foolish to think that run and mandated mean the same thing.

My favorite lie, and no one seems to be calling anyone on it, is that ACA is government run Healthcare. Rand Paul said it just the other day. The government is not running healthcare it is setting up exchanges for people to buy healthcare.

If you lived in Wisconsin you could offset your $0.83 with the $13 dollar a year voter payoff property tax relief. http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=41159

Again with the Green Eggs and Ham. What is the obsession with this book? And I wonder if they actually understand the meaning. But I will say this about Sarah Palin, people on the right and people on the left, just keep giving her a platform. They spread her words either as gospel or a joke. I wish people would just stop paying attention to her.

I never really liked the Clash. But I always loved Big Audio Dynamite (both One and Two).

Absolutely. But in regards to ACA, is there any indication that is the road we are going down? LouieB is right, the whole Death Panel talk is bullshit of the highest order. It does nothing but misinform and frighten.

There is the rub, isn't? But unfortunately your tax dollars go for a lot of things you don't agree with. It is the nature of the beast really.

The only people who should make decisions on your healthcare are you and your doctor. That has been my opinion.

Guess what, there is no such thing as death panels, and Sarah Palin is an idiot for suggesting otherwise. ACA is not government run health care. They will not decide what kind of healthcare you get. They have set up exchanges for private companies to compete for customers. Anyone that thinks there are government run "Death panels" is willfully ignorant, an spreading misinformation. More to the case before ACA there were corporate death panels. These "panels" could decide not to insure someone based upon pre-existing conditions.

But my original assessment still rings true. Your complaints observations, are not about ACA, they are about the Free Market. Insurance companies are going to try to make as much money as possible, as it their purpose. Also this is an interesting read on how ACA will affect premiums. http://obamacarefacts.com/obamacare-health-insurance-premiums.php

I see it differently.

So essentially you are complaining about the Free Market here, not ACA. It is the free market that is the GOP's solution to healthcare. Also you are complaining that people are too stupid to use the free market as it should be used. ACA gives the opportunity for more companies to participate in the healthcare market., what is done beyond that really isn't an issue with ACA it is an issue with the Companies. It sounds like you are making the case for single payer, universal healthcare. I have not heard of these ACA fees please provide information.

Ok, that is a nice theory, but you make it sound like once you pick a health insurer you are stuck with that insurer for the rest of your life. The beauty of the Exchange is you can change your insurance (yearly if memory serves). So prices, start increasing (or services are cut) then you have the option to go elsewhere, through the Healthcare Exchange. So it would behoove these companies to keep prices low to keep customers. ACA really is a free market solution to healthcare. The same problems that you are pointing out with ACA now are the same problems with our current system (and

my brother sent me this today. Lots of great videos, interviews, etc. http://www.oregonlive.com/music/index.ssf/2013/10/elliott_smith_anniversary_vide.html

50th Anniversary Teaser Trailer

It now has been ten years. Again he is truly missed, one of the great voices. Nice article form Stereogum about Elliott http://www.stereogum.com/1528172/musicians-pay-tribute-to-elliott-smith-who-died-10-years-ago-today/franchises/essay/ Gonna be binging on Elliott quite a bit today.

I guess you are misunderstanding what I am trying to get at. And truth be told, I can't understand what you are trying to say. But let me put it this way, one of the purposes of the Exchanges is to offer several competing plans and (in theory) make it easier to find and choose an insurer. Thus increasing competition and lowering prices. My God, it is like a play book right out of Marx Engles, right? BTW and I have said this before, the penalty for not having health insurance is way too low. It should be at minimum the same as the lowest cost average health plan for your state.

But they do this by offering greater choice.

But the really purpose of ACA is offer more choice in healthcare, thus the markets. If premiums rise you should shop around. (But aca is socialist program right?) For awhile I agree it may be erratic, but every thing will even out.

From reading the story it appears that yhe person in the story lied to get fame. The administration and media should have done more fact checking. The same goes for FoxNews. Both sides are so eager to make their case they aren't doing the necessary leg work. But really two wrongs don't make a right.

So Hannity the other night brought out three couples to explain their Obamacare horror stories. Except they are not true. http://www.salon.com/2013/10/18/inside_the_fox_news_lie_machine_i_fact_checked_sean_hannity_on_obamacare/?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000008 Yes the rollout has been a mess, but if ACA is as bad as they say it is, can't they find some real stories?

Why? I think that is the center piece of the movie. Without it the rest of the movie makes no sense.

I may be in the minority, but his best just might be The Darjeeling Limited. I have a feeling The Grand Budapest might be closer to that stylistically. I often wondered what Wes Anderson would do with a Superhero or big budget SciFi Epic. Maybe he could direct Star Wars VIII.