ObamaCare cost expectation drops 7%

[Brittain33]

1. Get rid of the individual mandate
2. Pass tort reform
3. Repeal medical device tax
4. Get rid of employer mandate
5. Bring work week back to 40 hours because of #4
6. There we go. Sit back and watch the system tumble into a death spiral.

FTFY. No one really likes the individual mandate, but it's there for a really, really good reason.

Every idea you mentioned above, except for 3 (which is trivial) and 2 (which isn't that important to the goal of universal coverage), would cripple any approach to widening coverage.

[Brittain33]

1. Get rid of the individual mandate
2. Pass tort reform
3. Repeal medical device tax
4. Get rid of employer mandate
5. Bring work week back to 40 hours because of #4
6. There we go. Sit back and watch the system tumble into a death spiral.

FTFY. No one really likes the individual mandate, but it's there for a really, really good reason.

You can't force anyone to buy something. Keep the damn site up! If people want health insurance, it's still there.

No offense, but the reason the individual mandate is required (even if people don't like it, "you shouldn't make people buy broccoli!!", etc.) is because without it, the individual system collapses. There are literally thousands of explanations of why this is on the Internet. I encourage you to do some research on "Adverse selection," "death spiral," and "individual mandate."

Obama attacked Hillary Clinton for proposing an individual mandate because he got that people instinctively don't like the idea. He came around to imposing it because it's required.

If you raise the working week from 30 hours to 40 hours, suddenly millions of workers will be reclassified as 39 hours, denying them health care without impacting the employer's ability to operate at all. This is a terrible public policy. This is why 30 hours was chosen - very few workers are at that line so there is no way to game the system.

[Brittain33]

If you have a machine that doesn't work properly, and it routinely harms innocent people, only an old fool would cling to it, rather than throwing it on the scrap heap.

Analogies aren't actually arguments, and bad analogies (ACA has been very successful) are doubly useless.

[Brittain33]

Meanwhile, unemployment rate rises as discouraged and detached workers try to regain employment.

Gee, who could have known this was coming?

Or college students who graduated in December moved into the labor force to seek employment in January.

Seasonal adjustment would have corrected for any impact of that.