We Told You So: The New "Obamacare Sux" Thread

[Hauldren Collider]

The only good thing about Obamacare is that it brought a Republican majority to the House of Representatives.

[Tupac Shakur]

You still don't ""Kuelewa"", Tupac Drake?

I haven't yet figured out the racism here, even though I'm sure it exists. Do I dare Google "Kuelewa"?

edit: Apparently it's Swahili. I guess racist ass Sloww thinks a guy from Oakland should know an African language...

[Tupac Shakur]

I sent this to a female and she blocked me on facebook after telling me to **** OFF. Seriously. I can't see her profile anymore.

She's welcome.

[Al B. Sure!]

I would like to know what Sloww was trying to say when he said Kuelewa. Maybe he was referring to the Hawaiian cooking method called Kalua? But most likely, he'll just say something cryptic and call us idiots.

[Tupac Shakur]

"Kuelewa" is Swahili for "understand", as far as I can tell. Totally racist, as expected.

[Al B. Sure!]

He went on google translate to figure out how to say 'understand' in Swahili?

What does an East African trade language have to do with you?


¿En qué estabas pensando, Slowwhand?

[regexcellent]

It's probably the only sub-Saharan African language he's heard of. Would have been funnier if he'd chosen Afrikaans.

[Alexander's Horse]

Premiums will go up for some people as other people take cheaper Obamacare options. Ultimately though the old or premium policies should get better and cost less as the companies try and attract or retain policy holders. Also as more people take up insurance, as they must under Obamacare I believe, the costs should come down overall because there are more people paying in. But this will take time.

This is how it worked in Australia, which also has a mixed public/private system. The private companies have to work harder and offer a better product. That's not a bad thing in the long run.

[Al B. Sure!]

It's probably the only sub-Saharan African language he's heard of. Would have been funnier if he'd chosen Afrikaans.

If only google translate had that clicking Bushman language.

[Tupac Shakur]

Also as more people take up insurance, as they must under Obamacare I believe, the costs should come down overall because there are more people paying in. But this will take time.

This probably won't happen in America. The penalty for not buying insurance (which is intended to force people to obey the mandate to purchase insurance) is small and it will be cheaper for many healthy individuals to pay the penalty and only buy insurance when they are stricken with a costly illness. Insurance companies can no longer turn away customers who have pre-existing conditions, so there's no reason at present to purchase insurance before you need it.

The obvious route to fix this problem would be to raise the penalty so that it was no longer cheaper to forgo insurance, but the Supreme Court decision that declared that the penalty was really a tax (in order to give Congress sufficient constitutional authority to implement the individual mandate) probably limits the efficacy of that option.

[regexcellent]

Premiums will go up for some people as other people take cheaper Obamacare options. Ultimately though the old or premium policies should get better and cost less as the companies try and attract or retain policy holders. Also as more people take up insurance, as they must under Obamacare I believe, the costs should come down overall because there are more people paying in. But this will take time.

This is how it worked in Australia, which also has a mixed public/private system. The private companies have to work harder and offer a better product. That's not a bad thing in the long run.

One fundamental flaw with this theory is that the individual mandate will work. It won't, because the tax for the mandate is way too low.

[Alexander's Horse]

You are both right I think. The history of these things in other western countries is the "mandate" cost as you call it will go up. We call it the medicare levy, which everyone has to pay, but it's really a tax.

[Tupac Shakur]

The problem in this case is that if the tax goes up enough that it effectively forces people to purchase insurance, it may no longer be constitutional based on the Supreme Court's decision last summer.

[Alexander's Horse]

with the gridlock in Congress this sucker could go down

[kentonio]

Seriously. I bet if you let me have your facebook acct I could get you laid. All you'd have to do is shut up and not say anything.

Did one virgin just try and mock another virgin about his inability to get laid?