Subject: Re: The Affordability Tour Kicks Off
In other words, albaby, the Left (including SEIU, teacher's unions, and so forth) are total hypocrites. They like the current system the way it is just fine, because they find it benefits them.

As does the Democrat party which gets so much of its voters and funds from these unions and Progressives who support them.

But in the end it will all boil down to 1) what form of rationing our society chooses to allocate health care and health care dollars and what mix of public/private we are left with after the dust clears; 2) whether or not as a whole society is willing to try to establish more rational economic and behavioral incentives.

For example, health care premiums provided by employers are generally tax deductible. That's an irrational economic incentive, a relic of wage & price controls from about the World War II era. Maybe gradually that could be changed over say a 10 or 20 year period so it won't be too much of a shock to the system.

Another irrationality of the current system, an obvious one, is that there is no means-testing for ACA subsidies.

So an early retiree with millions in investments can manage their AGI so as to be eligible for subsidies which in effect are paid for by other people with a lot less assets. It's great for them but it's inequitable and economically irrational.

There are probably numerous other examples.