tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7464708.post1359080961988539923..comments2024-03-22T06:05:36.544-04:00Comments on Kids Prefer Cheese: ACA available at your grocer! Not to receive, but to pay for...Mungowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02340064320347875601noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7464708.post-16995038245159884662013-02-09T11:46:53.632-05:002013-02-09T11:46:53.632-05:00Clicking thru from your link to the source, I foun...Clicking thru from your link to the source, I found that the gigantic increase in costs--as estimated by the grocery & restaurant lobby--is $1 billion. (The cost is due to nutritional-info labeling, which presumably is closer to a fixed cost than a variable one, but let's leave that aside).<br /><br />If this cost were to fall entirely on grocery stores (as opposed to restaurants), and if it were an annual cost (which it's not), it would raise grocery stores' costs by 0.17%.<br /><br />I don't like the ACA at all, but this particular aspect of it is an absurd thing to shriek about.Jimbonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7464708.post-84389033545636022602013-02-09T09:24:01.754-05:002013-02-09T09:24:01.754-05:00Actually the insurance companies got bait and swit...Actually the insurance companies got bait and switched. Not that I'm sympathetic to them, but they thought they were getting a bunch of new customers from the individual mandate. Now that's largely been defanged, I expect they're going to be in real trouble as they're forced to offer insurance to anyone at capped prices, but can't depend on a huge volume of cost-free young subscribers complying with the mandates.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00975478334591086749noreply@blogger.com