[ExI] Millions of Lines of Code

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[mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Kelly Anderson
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 11:08 AM
To: ExI chat list
Subject: Re: [ExI] Millions of Lines of Code

 

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Mike Dougherty <msd001 at gmail.com> wrote:

.Or maybe I'm woefully ignorant of ACA's true complexity _requirements_ -
there could be several layers of subterfuge surrounding the real reason why
it must suck so hard.

 

>.While Amazon does have the shopping cart figured out, they don't have the
facilities, required by the law to protect the privacy of their customers.
In addition, how much various insurance companies charge various people
varies by a relatively large number of variables.-Kelly

 

 

Kelly, the whole point of this is the government does not need to know all
that info, and shouldn't be trusted with it to start with.  Recall we
currently have an IRS chief who has refused to testify by invoking the
fifth, and another who has been shown to be sharing taxpayer info with the
government.  So why would we trust them with private data?

 

The government's role in all this is to list which insurance policies
qualify, then estimate subsidies for the low income (note I didn't say poor,
but low income) and tax penalties for the opt-outs.  They could do that
using only W2 info, which they already have anyway.  Then the competing
insurance companies would be responsible for handling their own client's
info.  They do that currently.  I have been an Amazon customer since the
thing started, and I have never had them screw up an order, never had them
leak my credit card info, nothing has ever gone wrong, and they handle
buttloads of transactions; they know how to do it.  The government, not so
much.  They shouldn't be in the insurance biz.  Leave that to those who know
how.  

 

spike 

 

 

 

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