not wanting to pay for a service which I will never use in the future?! Seems to me, to pay for something which I know I will NEVER, EVER use would be stooopid!  Kinda like buying a wet suit, If I don't SCUBA or snorkle... Why would I buy that which I would not use.  (I also don't buy birth control pills for the same reason, but I DO buy condoms.)...

Why am I stupid for posting my opinion.  But since you bring it up, technically, those folks DID in fact, loose their insurance.  First, they were issued a letter of non-coverage.  What do you think will happen if they have need of medical services during the time between the letter tells them they are no longer covered, and when they obtain other coverage - no matter it be ACA services or some other magical insurance coverage?  Quite simply it will be totally out of their pocket.

Now, as to their insurance company (if they continue to provide insurance to the 300k), what do you think is going to happen to the rates?  For most they will increase.  Maybe to an unaffordable rate.... making the choice between mortgage, food or transportation (to get to work) and health insurance the issue.

What is wrong with either of my statements?  The ACA is, at best, a statistical gamble.  The long odd is that everone will sign up at higher rates to pay for the "exchange" subsidy....  When are people going to wake up and realize that if you incentivize folks for NOT working, that is exactly what they will do.  

And NOwhere in the ACA are the factors driving the increases in health care costs addressed.  In fact, they are made worse by the endless paperwork and supposed oversight written into the ACA.  so we will have 50% or less of the population paying for all, or part of our total health care costs!

 
Currently the US spends $8,233 per year per person. That's more than two-and-a-half times than most developed nations in the world, including relatively rich European countries like France, Sweden and the United Kingdom. On a more global scale, it means U.S. health care costs now eat up 17.6 percent of GDP.  THe ACA fails misserably to address that.  Oh, and do we receive superior care???  hummm.... lemme think about that.

According to the most recent report from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) -- an international economic group comprised of 34 member nations -- it's not as much as many Americans expect.  As examples, there are fewer physicians per person in the US than in most other OECD countries. In 2010, for instance, the U.S. had 2.4 practicing physicians per 1,000 people -- well below below the OECD average of 3.1.

The number of hospital beds in the U.S. was 2.6 per 1,000 population in 2009, lower than the OECD average of 3.4 beds. And that factor of Life Expectancy - the hall mark that in past the US use to boast over others?  Well, life expectancy, at birth, increased by almost nine years between 1960 and 2010, but that's less than the increase of over 15 years in Japan and over 11 years on average in OECD countries. The average American now lives 78.7 years in 2010, more than one year below the OECD average of 79.8 years.

So please spare me how superior this nutso plan is.  It is as good as the website which now even the Dems are shying away from.