Healthcare law could leave families with high insurance costs

[OhioChick]

07/21/11 12:43 PM ET

A major provision of the healthcare reform law designed to prevent businesses from dropping coverage for their workers could inadvertently leave families without access to subsidized health insurance.

The problem is a huge headache for the Obama administration and congressional Democrats, because it could leave families unable to buy affordable health insurance when the healthcare law requires that everyone be insured starting in 2014.

Some of the administration’s closest allies on healthcare reform warn this situation could dramatically undercut support for the law, which already is unpopular with many voters and contributed to Democrats losing the House in the 2010 midterm elections.

“It’s going to be a massive problem if it comes out that families have to buy really expensive employer-based coverage,” said Jocelyn Guyer, deputy executive director at Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families.

More: http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/172765-healthcare-law-may-leave-families-with-high-insurance-costs

[slackmaster]

1. Who could possibly have seen that coming?

:sarcasm:

[monmouth]

2. I really need to start looking for a bridge...n/t

[Demeter]

3. Whaddaya mean "Could"?

It's all part of the plan...

[county worker]

4. How many of us said this during the negotiations?

Insurance will be made available but at prices people can't afford just as it is now.

The problem was never access to insurance, it was access to health care. So Obama puts out an insurance reform program that never was meant to solve the problem of access to health care.

I remember making many posts telling folks this will result in no decrease in the numbers of those who cannot afford insurance or health care.

We did not get health reform legislation. What we got was insurance companies getting more customers through force.

[libmom74]

5. +100

[MedicalAdmin]

7. I can't tell you have many times I was told to pull my head out of my butt...

when I mentioned that over and over and over and over.

The most cogent responses, if one could call them that, went along the lines of "if even ONE person gets insurance..." What a bunch of BS. I'm in this fight for our clinics patients and every person out there who will get slammed. This law could put every low cost clinic like our out of business, although we could always just fall back on just our lucrative functional medicine division and just not see any more poor folks....


Fuck it - this still pisses me off. I, for one, will NOT buy meaningless insurance. I already don't pay much in taxes because my voluntary income is so low, so let them fine me. Can't get blood out of a rock.

[bvar22]

6. And even IF they can afford to BUY it,

they won't be able to USE it due to High Co-Pays/High deductibles.
This IS Junk Insurance,
subsidized by YOUR tax Dollars.

The Time Bomb is ticking,
and set to go off in 2014.
The ONLY smart thing the Democratic Party leadership did was to delay the implementation of The Mandate until AFTER the next election,
because after The Mandate, Democrats will be unelectable for a generation.

[MedicalAdmin]

8. We have 3 years to fix this or get the hell out.

Because after this goes through, things are going to either get real ugly on the streets (where more and more of us will be living), or the american people, not known as the brightest collective bulb on the tree, will elect some fascist dunce who makes Little Boots look like Ghandi crossed with Einstein. And then "flush."

[guruoo]

9. '...children who aren’t covered by employer family plans are eligible

for Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program.'