Buyer beware! Please watch this video, starting at minute 30 to find out about the evils of the ACA from Dr. Margaret Flowers who is not a right-winger (would Bill Moyers talk to a right-winger!) Especially before you plunk down $7 to be lied to: http://billmoyers.com/episode/full-show-…

So where will people get the money to pay for their new high deductable health care plans?

Thanks to Obamacare I now have to pay for healthcare rather than the plan at work being free, and my deductables have increased.

Yippie!

More info on Obama's corporate welfare plan for the health insurance industry: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/11/m…

Any don't buy health insurance parties being planned?

It may interest you to know, that despite Obama's promise to let people keep their existing (low premium, but essentially worthless) health insurance policies, it is up to the state - and not the federal gov't - to decide whether you may keep your old coverage. The office of the insurance commissioner of Washington has decided that you may not keep your old crappy policy, you must get a new, better quality policy that is actually worth holding because it will actually cover most of your bills if you actually get sick, actually.

Oregon, Utah and Idaho are giving insurance companies the option of going either way.

@7 Now now we mustn't mention that each State has it's own insurance commission that has to approve all (not just health) insurance plans sold in their State. That'd be pointing out that the problems with setting up a national healthcare exchange is 50 times more complicated then commonly understood.

The assumption when ACA was written was that most States would be at least as intelligent as Kentucky assert their independence from the Federal Government and set up their own exchanges. Alas what calls itself the conservative party in the US today is irrational in its approach to its own ideology.

and, as a bonus, when you see those little collection jars at checkstands for little timmy's leukemia treatment you can get all smug and be like "the family should have signed up and not just taken the penalty".

Is this a sponsored (paid for) post? It sure reads like a sponsored post. That's fine, I'm sure you can't just run Lost Lake ads to pay writers, but it's journalistically ethical to clearly mark that a sponsored post is sponsored. You'll still get paid, most of the money-making blogs do it.

@2: Bill Moyers talks to plenty of right-wingers.

@9: not precisely. The small employer portion of the exchanges doesn't start until 2014 (quote and enroll) and the large employer portion isn't scheduled until 2017. That's what governs whether you can purchase healthcare on the exchanges yet.

As for insurance rates, many payers are not-for-profit entities whose margins are set by state insurance regulations not to exceed 2% per year over and above the cost of paying the claims themselves, plus administrative costs. The overhead must include the significant IT costs of implementing numerous state and federal mandates (like exchanges, f'rinstance, among many others.)

@4: Nothing about that comment makes any sense. Stop lying.

@4 - I don't feel sorry for you at all. You are damn lucky, frankly. My employer has used the ACA as an excuse to no longer offer health insurance for its full-time part-timers (employees who work more than 20/less than 40 hours a week). Frankly, I would have preferred they double or triple what they had me pay, because even a much higher amount for me it is a hell of lot cheaper than any comparable policy on the exchanges. They could have grandfathered in the current employees, but it was easier just to dump us all, hoping the long-timers with their higher hourly rates would leave. Win-win for this company.

I am not opposed to the ACA. SOMETHING had to be done. Obviously, it's going to be a very long adjustment period, very long. I wish it were different, but I'm willing to take the hit because otherwise it was never going to change.

@17, SOMETHING did have to be done, and Obama the candidate used to know what it was. http://youtu.be/fpAyan1fXCE