I'd like to reiterate this from my mostly overlooked post about the lead plaintiff in the SCOTUS case on mandates filing for bankruptcy:
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Small business owners frequently struggle to find decent health benefits, particularly as they get older, because the market for both individuals buying on their own and small businesses is extremely dysfunctional. Insurers jump in and out of the market, broker fees drive up premiums, and plans tend to have spotty benefits. Most important of all, carriers are practice aggressive forms of “risk selection” – that is, altering coverage, raising premiums, or simply denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions and other signs of medical risk.
Conservatives itt, do you deny that the private insurance market for individuals and small business, particularly with people over 50 - is pretty grim?
If you agree the market is pretty ugly - do you think these people will somehow be worse off under Obamacare - or do you just not think it's worth the cost to give them real insurance as enjoyed by people who work for corporations or govt (or once they hit the magic 65)?
I mean I just want to define what we're arguing here - is Obamacare going to screw small businesses, or is it too much of a free pony to give to them?
Or both somehow (please specify)?