OK, don't have a fit: Five thoughts on the Obamacare disaster

[humbled_opinion]

56. TOTALLY CONFUSED

After reading this thread, I hear both optimistic and pessimistic tones toward the ACA itself as well as the predictable website issues. If I am not mistaken the entire ACA will collapse if the young workers 20-40 age group fail to sign up/pay for their plans as required. You would think someone would have already put the burden on employers to retain the healthcare coverage premiums from each paycheck i.e. like Medicare is now. Additionally, is anyone getting a raise to help them pay? Yes I understand their is tax incentives to this in form of tax credits for lower income groups but in the end you are still forking over some money each month, my fear is many just won't pay for it unless it is retained from their checks i.e. tax system.

Who is going to make that group pay? A fear of some penalty that really amounts to much less than the plans coverage plus copays/deductibles... that won't work.... Just like the big corporations are going to cut hours to dump people into exchanges that they will still have to pay for and then the corp pays some miniscule fine instead of the cost of the plans....

The incentives in this plan are just not there.... Young people are not going to fork over income that they just don't have to pay for a program that in their mind they just don't need at this point in their life....

and there is a coming effort on the right to force a populist tax reform that sets a standard fair tax rate..... If that ever happened the subsidies in the ACA would fail to produce a cost savings for lower income people.

Wrap all that around a continuing effort by one political party to destroy the ACA and I start to lean toward the pessimistic side of the issue.