The Obamacare 10 Percent Club

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Author(s) Chicago Tribune editorial board
Source Chicago Tribune
Date December 19, 2013
URL http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-obamacare-enrollment-edit-1219-20131219,0,1609306.story
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Many of those young people who don't enroll will pay mild penalties rather than steep premiums and deductibles. Perfectly legal. And perfectly lethal for Obamacare: Premiums rise, more people bail, subsidies soak taxpayers and the whole system tilts into insolvency. But that comes later. For now, "the big moment of truth is 12 a.m. Jan 1, when a mother is standing at a pharmacy with a baby in her arms trying to get a script filled," Aetna Inc. CEO Mark Bertolini told The Wall Street Journal.


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This item argues for the position Act should not have been passed on the topic Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.