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#1  Edited By KC_Hokie
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@Barbariser said:

@HOKIE_KC said:

@Makhaidos said:

@HOKIE_KC said:

It's because of the economy and the unknowns of Obamacare. Many companies simply aren't hiring and the ones that are only hiring for part-time.

Seriously? The unemployment crisis has been going on years before Obamacare was a twinkle in Mitt Romney's eye.

I swear, if an asteroid hit the Earth right now, right-wingers would blame it on Obamacare.

Employment was higher when Obama was elected. The employment market never recovered.

Hahah this troll imitates Hokie's "mindlessly repeat the same bullshit over and over again" style of argument amazingly well.

Some guy is pretending to be me to be funny or something, but is unknowingly correct here. Bureau of Labor Statistics states only 62.8% of Americans are in the labor force. That's pretty awful and the lowest since 1978!

Source: BLS.gov (official Federal agency)

Look at page 5 of the latest report....3rd line down.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf

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@mattbbpl said:

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It's estimated that 130 million will lose their plan in the end. Businesses got an extra year so those employees getting dropped haven't even hit the system yet.

Epic failure.

I'm more than a little curious where you got the estimate that greater than 1/2 of insured Americans will lose their policies.

Some guy is pretending to be me as a joke or something but is unknowingly right here.

"When ObamaCare is fully implemented, Conover finds, an estimated 129 million people — that's 68% of the 189 million Americans with private health coverage — could lose their previous health coverage due to a combination of factors including the cancellations of existing plans as well as changes and "improvements" to existing coverage that will be required under the new health care law."


http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-obama-care/110513-678060-129-million-will-lose-their-health-care-plans.htm#ixzz2kUfGUZiV

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I just laugh at all these prices, I am pretty much up on the prices as my nephew was applying to a lot of colleges and I was privy to financials in regards. I mean shit schools are 35 k a year. I think its beyond criminal that colleges have gotten this expensive. What is the solution? Also do you view it as overpriced and feel the same way?

Because of cheap government loans. People used to be able to work in the summers to pay for the rest of the year at college. Good luck trying that these days.

And the reason why cheap government loans increase the price is because colleges know if they raise the price of tuition, students will simply borrow the money. There is little incentive for colleges to try to save money or be efficient in certain areas. Not when they could just raise the price instead.

When the government essentially subsides something it becomes inefficient and more costly than it should be. Just ask the Soviets.

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@sSubZerOo said:

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@sonicare said:

There are some good measures in the ACA, but there is also a lot of poorly thought out crap. The website debacle was just the result of poor planning. But the bigger issues are that some people are losing their insurance. They made the strong assertion that no one would lose their existing coverage, but that hasnt been the case. Lots of people have been dumped from their previous plans and are now finding their remaining options to be far more expensive. Wish they would have thought this out better. I like the idea of getting rid of the exclusion of pre-existing conditions and letting younger people stay on parents plans, but other stuff seemed rushed.

No one knew that this was going to happen due to people wanting to ramrod the legislation through the voting process without reading it. That is the problem with lots of the legislation that is getting passed nowadays. Big bulky bills with garbage that no one wants to read, but should and it is hard to understand most of what is put in those bills.

Yes, the big issue is that Obama spent the last four years telling people that if they already had insurance, they could keep it. Now we are seeing that those previous policies are not grandfathered in and those with those policies are being dropped. It really is shameful that it is happening. Now he is telling those very people to go to the website that is broken to see if they qualify for subsidized insurance (which is another way to say taxpayer supported) through the site.

Can you blame them? We basically have a major party in office that systematically wants to destroy the majority of government programs and who has called plans like this the break point to becoming a socialism.. This doesn't excuse the crap problem with many parts of the ACA plan, but some how suggest that "slow down to do this change" is just not realistic when we have a party that doesn't even want to do anything outside of dismantling and deregulating..

Obamacare is an awful plan and will likely collapse on its own. Americans get to see the big government trainwreck in progress. $500 million for a website that doesn't even work? Lol!

And that's just the tip of the iceberg with this terrible idea.

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Gary Johnson would be my first choice. Rand Paul would be my second.

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It's happened twice in American history (Maine, West Virginia).

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Chik-Fil-A is my favorite for fast food chicken.

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Palestinians are stupid and reject every offer ever given by Israel. Eventually the Israelis will just colonize all of the West Bank and the Palestinians will be left with nothing.

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The Obama administration lied to us. The government can't handle dealing with insurance involving 16% of the total economy.

Surprise, surprise!

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