Health care costs will likely put the burden on the young and healthy, in order to fund the elderly and the sick.
That's not likely, it's a baseline requirement. In order for the new system to lower rates, it is an absolute requirement that young, healthy people start carrying health insurance. Their premiums will subsidize the costs for older people who have higher health care costs.
NONE of the following is intended as political commentary, just my observations and thoughts........
I personally would have preferred a government-run health care plan because the companies are necessarily going to manage their plans to make considerable profits. The one advantage that a government-run plan would have had is eliminating the profit aspect, but that might have been negated by the size of the bureaucracy required to run it. OTOH, there's going to be a big new oversight bureaucracy anyway, so maybe that's a wash.
I personally think that (on a practical basis, not a political one) the health care industry had too much influence on the way the plan shaped up. No surprise there, as a government-run plan probably would have destroyed a substantial part of their industry. I like the concept behind the law, but I am far from convinced that the dollars and cents aspect will work. I fully expect the law to be modified significantly in its first few years.
As a university employee, I'm probably in as good a position as anyone relative to my health care plans, but I'm not far from retirement and I will be watching to see how this thing works out.
