What are your concerns about the ACA?

[cali]

I mean specific concerns about this program, not that single payer is by far better.

I've been thinking about it quite a bit as the date for the program to begin in earnest draws near. I hope for the best but fear the worst.

Here are some of my specific concerns:

Enforcement of "everyone in". It's vitally important to the success of the ACA that everyone, particularly young people, enroll. Will the mechanisms to ensure this prove effective?

Insurance companies. 1) more and more insurance companies are opting out of state exchanges. 2) Insurance companies, period. don't trust them.

Employers of 50 or more deciding to drop people before the employer mandate, which has been delayed, comes into effect.

31 states have opted out of setting up their own exchanges. The feds are setting up exchanges in those states. How will that work?

The complexity of the law.

[hedgehog]

1. If my son is still looking for work, my main concern

is that he doesn't miss any deadlines for signing up.

[customerserviceguy]

2. Promising too much, delivering too little.

If people think that they'll never have to pay a medical bill again because of Obamacare, they're surely going to be disappointed. The ACA is not healthcare, it's health insurance, and that's something totally different.

[kestrel91316]

3. That the policies available through the exchanges will still leave people vulnerable to

medical bankruptcy. People who qualify for those big subsidies don't have a spare dime to pay deductibles or co-pays.