Well America we better watch out the Republicans are going to eun and own rhis country if we ddon't do something real soon. They call us communist yet they are the one that are the comunist. What really gets me mad is that we lost a lot brothers in all the wars that we have fought and a hand full of idiots taking our coountry.And I mean taking over 29 yrs. ago I said that about 10 to 20 oeople would own the country people thought that I was crazy well I hope that they can see it now. Rachel if wed don't do something about it we will be their slaves we will be working for peanuts

Please Please Please post the link for that MA Health Connector Commercial. This should be blowing up all over the internet! I know that I will send the link to everyone, that I know. Please post it to the site under the videos section!!!

Ezra Klein - jeez have some perspective here!!

To me the shocking thing has to do with the billion .5 the health insurance companies are going to refund this year.. Does that mean there's some actual cost/profit control in the ACA? That would be the real accomplishment. Albeit that it is probably still tooooo big (the profit margin or whatever). Wasn't a 15% business profit the norm for like 50 years?

Rachel--

Please correct your statement that when people who don't have health insurance go to the emergency room, everyone else has to pay. This is not true of all uninsured people, and it stereotypes and further stigmatizes uninsured people in a way that I don't believe you intended. One of your guests referred to uninsured people as "free-riders"-- or something similarly offensive, and again this is a stereotype that furthers the misconception that people without health insurance never pay for their care out of their own pockets.

Not only do many people pay out-of-pocket, but many of them pay twice or three times as much as much as the care actually costs--even at "non-profit" hospitals, and many don't realize that they are expected to pay more than insurance companies are charged since insurers usually negotiate with hospitals to pay only a percentage of the amount billed.

In N.C., hospitals' rack rate hits the uninsured hard

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/04/22/2016931/in-nc-hospitals-rack-rate-hits.html#storylink=cpy

Also--

North Carolina's urban hospitals pile up the cash

http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/04/22/2016905/north-carolinas-urban-hospitals.html

There are links to more articles from an excellent series written by reporters for the Raleigh, NC News and Observer here:

Prognosis: Profits

Hospitals prosper at patients' expense.

http://www.newsobserver.com/810/index-p2.html

This decision is just another government action that is incomprehensible to the average person. How can the chief justice change the meaning of a law to suit himself? How can making someone buy insurance be a tax?

This healthcare law is very complicated and very expensive to implement. It will never work, not in America.

This is going to be a case of "the ends justify the means" that will cause pain and misery for decades. For example, using the logic of this decision, Congress can pass a law that everyone has to buy a gun. That's now legal. Let's also not forget that now such directives to buy something can't be filibustered, because it's a "tax".

So let's think of all the lovely things Congress and make us buy. Well, it seems Congress can make us buy anything it wants. Guns, solar panels, broccoli, anything.

I, for one, LOVE Obamacare---especially the donut hole that will soon be closed; I can't wait! I reach the donut hole earlier each year. 5 of my meds are not generic and therefore are very costly when they are in the donut hole! I can pay as much as $3000 when I'm in the donut hole (diabetic insulins or asthma sprays), but the amount seems to be decreasing some each year. It's ridiculous that Bush left it that there was no way to bargain for cheaper rates! I'm hoping THAT will change! I am retired & on medicare. I'm certain I am not the only one who LOVES Obamacare, so I don't believe the stats that claim most people want it repealed....unless they've unwittingly been brainwashed to believe the Republican misrepresentations and worked into a frenzy!

I truly liked the Roberts' Court opinion on the Affordable Care Act legislation. Anyone may view my comment here: http://davidual.me/2012/06/29/the-roberts-asupreme-court-decides-health-care-reform-debate/

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