Will Conservatives take credit for the Affordable Care Act once it proves to drive down costs?

http://www.kff.org/healthreform/upload/8... The Kaiser Family summarized this thing. It's worth a read. I'll be the only honest one here and say, I never attempted to read 2700 pages of legalese.

How will it increase cost? Simple rules of supply and demand. You don't think an extra 30 million or so will have an effect?

How much was that spiffy toy phone in your pocket? A brand new I phone fetches $400. A five year old Blackberry is $40.

What's the difference? The demand the market places upon the product. As for how the insurance companies react... who can say?

We won't know until it rolls out in 2014. There is a whole host of new taxes to be levied, to support this thing. There is still no leash in sight, for the ambulance chasers.

And then you read into the section about the benefits packages, and I have to wonder if they missed their own point entirely.

My biggest concern is that healthcare reimbursements wiill be kept artificially low by the govt that it will result in scarce resources. I have a friend who is a doc who gets so little back in reimbursement from the govt for Medicaid patients that it costs him more to do the paperwork, so he sees them for free and writes off the cost. Physicians cannot afford to keep practicing when the number of patients with govt insurance rises and it will.

We have seen this thing time and again not only all over Europe, but here in the US when Hillary mandated through a govt program that all children be vaccinated with the flu shot. Do you remember what happened that yr? Govt kept reimbursements so low that companies could not afford to make the vaccine and there were severe shortages.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.