I don't have time to address the prebate system, Joe, but what you describe shows the inherent stupidity of having health insurance being tied to employment with an employer willing to provide it.

Groups should be able to get together and form their own pools - AOPA, CAF, EAA, NRA, etc. to provide competition in the health care arena.

Before Obamacare, Wisconsin had a high risk pool called Badgercare. It was designed precisely for people like your family as you described. And the States is where this should reside, not FedGov.

Hence the ACA.  Set up a penalty so healthy people who don't have health insurance have to pay in anyway.

Why do you seem to think it's acceptable for a government to tell its citizens what they will and will not purchase? I'm still waiting to see the authority for it because the general welfare clause fails.

Call it a tax, because truly that's what it is.  We like to give tax breaks to promote desired behavior (owning a house, for example) so we tax an undesirable behavior.  Lots of those, by the way, like cigarette and liquor taxes.  I have to admit, the ACA is more sweeping.  This is a simple thing.

Article 1, Section 8 actually specifies that the Congress has the power to lay and collect taxes. It doesn't mention health care.

If healthy people don't put in the whole thing doesn't work.

Why should a healthy person pay for a sick person? That makes no sense other than a sick person is going to have a higher health care cost and may need some help paying for it.

We're back to being shut out if you have a "preexisting condition", which the insurance companies can declare you breathing.

Insurance is like any other business: it provides a service in exchange for payment. It exists to make money. If an insurance company decides to charge a higher premium for a person with a pre-existing condition (because that person is at a higher risk of having to need the insurance) then why shouldn't they be allowed to do that?

The ACA, as imperfect as it is, is a step in the right direction.  If your politicians could just get together and cooperate, I bet they could fix its shortcomings and turn it into something that would really work for the American people.  It isn't going anywhere.

The ACA is a terrible law and it's failing. Maybe the Democrats should've actually put some thought into this and sought bipartisan support instead of ramming it through. Or maybe they shouldn't have done it at all, but then that is completely against the progressive mindset. The government must be involved in every aspect of a person's life and control them.

As far as what does the Constitution allow and what doesn't it, that question is now moot. The ACA got the blessing of the Supreme Court, its a done deal.  Yeah, perhaps some court in the future will see differently, but that won't come any time soon.

The SCOTUS also once ruled against Dredd Scott and that internment camps were legal. The point being that the SCOTUS doesn't always get it right.

Courts respect precedent.  You guys like to go on and on about what's Constitutional and what isn't.  Think about this: nine of the best legal scholars in America often can't agree what is and isn't Constitutional.  Do you really think its that cut and dried?  Do you really think your sophistries are the end of the game?

They can't agree on what's Constitutional because (currently, anyway) at least four of them would rather look at what they want the Constitution to say instead of what it actually says.

Liberals use the courts at all levels to change the law to what they want it to say instead of using the mechanisms in place to actually change the laws: state houses and the Congress.

I think Trey Gowdy would be be very good.

If you want to stick up for a guy who snubs respected international leaders because he doesn't like a photographer noting that's it's time for a customary handshake, so be it.

That's the stupid part.  The snub was to the photographer, not to Merkel.  The press is upset because they looked like idiots.  Again.

Would they send her to a men's prison or women's prison?

Yes

Turbine Inlet Temperature gauges?

I am completely certain that Barack Obama is a wholly owned subsidiary of George Soros and that Valerie Jarret is his controller.
Sedition / Treason / whatever you wish to call it, Obama and his cabal of trash are committing war against America with the total cooperation of the democrats and progressive media.

Steingar has watched your little clip.  What you Trumpkins fail to realize is that the Russians are quite determined to delegitimize democracies.  They almost certainly did so here, just finished rigging an election in the Netherlands, and have their eyes set on European elections next year.  As such contacts between The Angry Cheeto's chief lieutenants and Russian officials during the campaign is at best suspicious as all hell, especially given that the Tangerine Jesus himself egged them on to make disclosures about his opponent during the campaign (funny how he liked leaks then).  That said, I think this is all smoke and no fire.  I strongly doubt the K-Mart Caesar has neither the savvy nor the sagacity to conspire with the Russians and actually keep it a secret for any length of time.  He'd brag about it if nothing else.  I think his best option is full disclosure.  I really doubt there's anything to it at all.

Had the Hildebeast this kind of contact with the Russians prior to the election you'd demand her scalp rightly so.  The more disquieting aspect of all this is you are all perfectly happy with Russian meddling in our elections because your Barbecued Brutus won.  Thus no one is going to do anything about Russian meddling in Western democracies.  Hence they win.  It is just as the Hildebeast said.  The Talking Yam is a acting, overtly or inadvertently, like a Russian Stooge.  I still wonder what they have on him.

Reductio ad absurdum....   "Trumpians" bear no illusions as to what Putin is or what he represents. I can't tell if you believe what you write or you think we are so stupid we will just accept your premises.  Honestly, we just understand the absurdity of the media trying to turn alleged communications before the campaign or actual communications of a cabinet appointee into some type of collusion between Trump and the Russians.   Especially when said media ignored actual collusion that lined Hillary's pockets when she signed off on the deal that gave the Russians control over 20% of our uranium reserves/supply.   Russia has had an unprecedented negative (for us) resurgence under the impotence of Obama and failed democrat initiatives.   Putin understood Obama is a pussy.  He manipulated and out maneuvered Obama, Clinton and Kerry at every turn.  He took over parts of the Ukraine with barely a whimper from Obama, even though we had promised that we would protect them when they disarmed. 

I was highly entertained by Trump's news conference today, and he dealt with the Russian issue quite effectively in my mind.  I think Trump will continue full speed ahead on his campaign promises, which will further drive people like you nuts.  I think the people who leaked the latest secret information about Flynn should be hung, they won't be, but I believe they will be caught.   I think that this Russian thing is the latest attempt by the Democrats to take Trump down, but I don't think it will work. 

I have to ask you though, Trump's mission is to "make America great again",  why do you and your ilk want America to fail?