Affordable Care Act Timeline, or...

...irrefutable facts against which T.R will post cartoons:

March 23, 2010: President Obama signs the Affordable Care Act into law. The broadest changes to the U.S. health-care system in decades, it is intended to provide coverage to millions of uninsured Americans through new private insurance marketplaces, called exchanges, and an expansion of Medicaid.

*garamet waves to Santalagon.

Sept. 23, 2010: The law bars insurance companies from refusing to cover children with preexisting conditions, from dropping people who get sick and from placing lifetime limits on coverage. It allows people to stay on parental health plans until age 26.

As of 14 months later, 3.1 million additional young adults have insurance coverage as of December 2011, due to the provision in the Affordable Care Act that allows 19 through 25 year olds to remain on their parents’ insurance plans.

Figures for 2012 are not yet in, but we can assume they're even higher. Unless one of the "TEH OBAMACARE!!!!1!" can tell us otherwise.

Health Insurance Premiums Are Refunded to 8.5 Million Enrollees

We know this is a crappy program Garamet.

You don't have to provide a plot synopsis for it.

By the way, what is so magical about allowing children (?!) to stay on their parents insurance until they are 26 years old?

We know you think homosexuals are immoral and disgusting.

You don't have to provide a plot synopsis every for it.

By the way, what is so magical about allowing homosexuals(?!) to stay on the same programs heterosexuals are until they are 126 years old?

I'd like to know why Dayton's jealous of the 8.5 million people who received refunds on their health insurance premiums.

People paying more for health insurance is bad, and people paying less for health insurance is also bad, because... Obama!

And at very nearly the end of the Obamacare timeline, this...

The scam is coming to an end.

Just as I decided it would.

Jan. 1, 2011: Preventive care becomes free under Medicare, the federal insurance program for people 65 and older.

I noticed you never answered my question about 26 year olds.

Not hardly, pilgrim. Obamacare is the same kind of scam as Amway. That's why Obama's trying to recruit his groupies to sell it to their friends and relatives like Amway. It's a pyramid scheme, a big, steamin' pile of hucksterism. I ain't buyin' that filthy bile-green sour-stinkin' shit.

The leftists here love it like strawberry sherbet, but that's because they know it robs the people. The left doesn't give a fuck about the poor; they never have, and never will. Oh, they try to sell the idea that they do, but you have to watch what they support and what they oppose to see where their priorities are really at. The left hate the working class. Their support of Obama and his pyramid scheme is proof.

For once you're 100% correct.

Are you unable to answer or explain it then?

Probably because the question is just too God damned stupid to warrant an answer.

Another ACA thread?

Is there really nothing else to talk about any more?

Well, there are all the threads you've started...

Then perhaps you could answer it.

Health Care Tax Credit for Small Businesses
Federal tax credit of up to 35% of employer-paid health insurance premiums

Could.
Won't.
Because the question is just too God damned stupid to warrant an answer.

I see.

Like Garamet, you don't know the answer either.

Isn't he cute? Watch him spam up the thread like a toddler screaming "PAY ATTENTION TO ME!!!"

The Economic Argument for Disease Prevention: Distinguishing Between Value and Savings​

A little dated, but still pertinent:

Do Prevention Or Treatment Services Save Money? The Wrong Debate

I think we all agree that prevention is better than treating an actual illness. but like the old adage says you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink it. If folks are going to ignore warning signs, they'll continue to do so despite having the supposedly improved means to preventative measures. Many folks are stubborn like that.

Certainly true. We've got at least two of them here, and I'll bet you they also swallow the "Death Panel" swill.

But even before the ACA, some insurers and some of the smarter corporations were rewarding their clients/employees for healthy lifestyles and taking preventive measures, and they’ll continue to do so.

Meanwhile, the Moochers will pay their tax penalty and get nothing, until they end up crawling across the hospital parking lot toward the ER and they’ll be treated – having sacrificed years of their lives and quality of life for their unalienable right to be stupid.

Tell us, in your own words, what the IPAB does.

HA! I'm kidding, of course. Everybody -- everybody -- reading this knows that you fuckin' won't. Because describing the function of the Independent Payment Advisory Board would absolutely destroy your justification for mocking the idea of "death panels."

So feel free to not describe the role of the IPAB in Obamacare. It is, essentially, exactly what it's described as: a death panel. It decides which procedures are too good for which patients, essentially deciding that some patients will die.

IPAB is tasked with developing specific proposals to bring the net growth in Medicare spending back to target levels if the Medicare Actuary determines that net spending is forecast to exceed target levels, beginning in 2015.

With regard to IPAB's recommendations, the law explicitly states...

Huh... well whadda know... While the purpose of the IPAB is to reduce spending, it's rules specifically prohibit it from limiting benefits to accomplish this, and thus it's pretty much the exact opposite of a "Death Panel".

Well Johnny, this pretty much confirms what we've all known all along: That in addition to you being a terrible writer, you are indeed the lying motherfucking we've always known you to be.

Speaking of “death panels,” here’s another article for Castle to misunderstand:


Dying from Lack of Insurance

Just a reminder:

Meanwhile, here's the actual ingredients listed on the packaging of a popular brand of eliquid.


Four compounds in eliquid? Ever?!?

The idiot doesn't understand much of anything about his supposed area of expertise, so why the fuck would anyone trust him to understand the first thing about this far more complex topic?