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0 pointsrifung9y ago0 comments

> Not only are the costs outlandish, there are no high deductible plans available for people who are generally healthy. All of the plans, gold, silver and bronze, are geared toward heavy users or highly risk-averse users.

Isn't this just because now insurance companies have to cover preexisting conditions and also not charge them exorbitant prices? Naturally, they would be taking a loss in order to do this so that burden is instead shifted onto the healthy people. To prevent healthy people from just not buying insurance, the mandate was made because it's economically unfeasible without them.

If you're the type of person who would normally use a high deductible plan, you're worse off, but that's the way it was supposed to be. Presumably if one day you get very sick though, you will still be able to get insurance.

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rastapasta429y ago

Subsidies only hide the real issue.

We shifted the burden of healthcare from lower class and sick to middle class.

But the fundamental problem is high cost of healthcare. Capitalism is usually a ruthlessly effective tool, but it doesn't seem to work with healthcare due to lack of choice.

Maybe it doesn't make sense to invest so much money into health?

Is it a worthy trade-off getting 80% of our current healthcare quality for say 50% of the cost?

It's a tough call to make, but this country is in decline and we need to make tough choices.

I'm a 19-year old developer working my ass off last 4 years for silly startups. Currently I make $30/hour but paying around 30% of my income in taxes.

Baby boomers benefited from generation before them and borrowed money from gen x'ers/millenials and they run this country into ground.

Once my agegroup starts seriously voting I feel like we won't have a lot of pity for older age groups and their retirement plans.

I support raising minimum wage to livable standards, but I hope universal income comes soon.

Over the last year I've been getting burned out working 60 hour weeks trying to use latest languages and libraries, while my company is hiring $3/hour phillipino php/WordPress codemonkeys...While all I wish in life is to Haskell in peace for next 30 years and then die.

I'm still trying to work toeard American dream, but it's dead for all but the software industry.

It's disilousining to see rich stealing the fruits of my labour while I have to pay government to keep the lower class alive.

As kids we were told about wonders of globalization, democracy, and America.

In the real world we now have to deal with fucked up environment, economics and Putin flexing his geopolitical dick.

So you older folks got us into this mess, what the hell do we do now?

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