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Related: About this forumThe insurance companies LOVE this ACA why aren't they running ads against the reTHUGS
There getting an extra 30 million plus new customers. With all the money they have they should be running ads against the republicans trying to kill the law
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The insurance companies LOVE this ACA why aren't they running ads against the reTHUGS (Original Post)
bigdarryl
Sep 2013
OP
corporations are dumping their employees' health insurance plans, they should love it too :-) nt
msongs
Sep 2013
#1
The mandate only affects maybe 1% of the population. It is so infinitesimal that it has absolutely
Liberal_Stalwart71
Sep 2013
#4
The individual mandate is estimated to add about 13 million or so people to the insurance rolls...
PoliticAverse
Sep 2013
#6
Oh so now we like the individual mandate and want it to go into effect immediately?
Liberal_Stalwart71
Sep 2013
#7
The employer mandate (business providing insurance to employees) was delayed.
PoliticAverse
Sep 2013
#8
msongs
(67,420 posts)1. corporations are dumping their employees' health insurance plans, they should love it too :-) nt
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)2. Why should they run an ad opposing something that isn't going to happen?
Besides they like the mandate and would love all the parts they don't like to be removed.
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)4. The mandate only affects maybe 1% of the population. It is so infinitesimal that it has absolutely
no impact at all. People screamed and hollered about this fucking mandate for nothing. We took it to the fucking Supreme Court and only 1% is affected by it. It's ridiculous.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)6. The individual mandate is estimated to add about 13 million or so people to the insurance rolls...
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)7. Oh so now we like the individual mandate and want it to go into effect immediately?
Obama should not have delayed it, then. Now, there has to be a way to deal with this issue.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)8. The employer mandate (business providing insurance to employees) was delayed.
The individual mandate (you have to have insurance) wasn't delayed.
busterbrown
(8,515 posts)3. Because it marks the beginning of the end for these guys and they know it.
Once it sets in that govt. works in this matter.
People will want it even cheeper by getting rid of the middleman..
Old Union Guy
(738 posts)5. Because they know that they will get it anyway. n/t