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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But you realize that by not mandating healthcare, you are STILL paying those costs?  The increased costs for uninsured are absorbed by the insured, increasing premiums.  One of the goals of o-care is to drive those costs down.

signed, republican m.d.[/quote]

That is a fair point, but it doesn't answer the question of who, specifically, pays for what.  Obamacare's principal distributional effect will be to force younger people to pay higher premiums (far in excess of their actuarial risk) for insurance to subsidize older (largely richer) people.   That is leaving aside things like mandatory birth control coverage without a copay, which (assuming even modest efficiency in the health care market) is simply a wealth transfer from men to women.  There is a reason auto insurance does not cover oil changes.  These things may or may not be good policy -- reasonable people can disagree -- but the whole point of Obamacare is to make these cross-subsidies opaque and to hide the costs because they are not politically sellable if they were to be openly debated.

And I don't see how turning doctors into government employees (as the inevitable single-payer system that will emerge from the unsustainability of Obamacare as passed will) can do anything than other than degrade the medical talent pool.  Bottom line, Obamacare will expand coverage to those who did not have it at the cost of degrading the quality of care overall---indeed, there will likely be rationing when the imaginary cost savings do not materialize---at substantial financial expense to boot.  Unless you believe the rosy promises of cost control and improved efficiency -- something that government regulatory programs do not usually stimulate.   [/quote]

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