[quote=FlyerInHi]So Obamacare repeal would most benefit middle to upper class, young, healthy individuals. The older sick, working class guys will get screwed because they won’t be able to afford health care, even with the tax credits. Sounds like Trump voters will get the hopey changey they clamored for.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/03/02/republicans-already-think-obamacare-repeal-is-a-nightmare-its-about-to-get-worse/?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-c%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.d5ec3cf8f219%5B/quote%5D

The math is really simple. It’s 7th grade algebra.

We’ve got two groups of people, basically healthy and those with chronic conditions. At present 45% of the adult population has a chronic condition (aside from just being fat).

Insurance is a the simple part. You take the amount they pay for services, you add a bunch of administrative costs at the provider for dealing with insurances, you add couple boatloads of inefficiency and admin costs at the insurance carrier and then you add profit. We’ll call that Z, of in the case of a single insurance company we can call it $184 Billion.

Now, the simple math.

0.55X+0.45Y=$184 Billion.

And if you want X to be lower then Y needs to be even higher.

Or you bend the cost curve.

Seems pretty obvious were to cut inefficiencies to me.