My health insurance premiums TRIPLED under ACA. The post-fiasco spin put on by the Dems was that the small increase in people coverage was the goal all along, but if you actually look back at Obama's election he was literally promising that everyone's premiums would drop by $1000 per year. I don't think this was due to handouts to ins…
My health insurance premiums TRIPLED under ACA. The post-fiasco spin put on by the Dems was that the small increase in people coverage was the goal all along, but if you actually look back at Obama's election he was literally promising that everyone's premiums would drop by $1000 per year. I don't think this was due to handouts to insurance companies, because my county went from having 7 to having one provider as soon as Obamacare was implemented and we felt damn lucky that that final one didn't pull out. Rather it's that Democrats have this image of themselves as being smart technocrats but really they don't understand what they're doing, and the policies they think they want they have no idea what the consequences will be because they simply do not understand what reality is. Just about everyone lost from the ACA except for poor people who got increased subsidies. And that could have been done just by slightly increasing funding to Medicaid.
"Just about everyone lost from the ACA except for poor people who got increased subsidies."
I know this is already a dogpile on ACA -- I might be the last dog, and certainly the mangiest -- but try being an unemployed person or a marginally employed (i.e. working, but still poor) person and see what it does for you.
I paid the government a fine last year for the crime of not paying for privatized health insurance. It tells you who is the boss around here.
My health insurance premiums TRIPLED under ACA. The post-fiasco spin put on by the Dems was that the small increase in people coverage was the goal all along, but if you actually look back at Obama's election he was literally promising that everyone's premiums would drop by $1000 per year. I don't think this was due to handouts to insurance companies, because my county went from having 7 to having one provider as soon as Obamacare was implemented and we felt damn lucky that that final one didn't pull out. Rather it's that Democrats have this image of themselves as being smart technocrats but really they don't understand what they're doing, and the policies they think they want they have no idea what the consequences will be because they simply do not understand what reality is. Just about everyone lost from the ACA except for poor people who got increased subsidies. And that could have been done just by slightly increasing funding to Medicaid.
"Just about everyone lost from the ACA except for poor people who got increased subsidies."
I know this is already a dogpile on ACA -- I might be the last dog, and certainly the mangiest -- but try being an unemployed person or a marginally employed (i.e. working, but still poor) person and see what it does for you.
I paid the government a fine last year for the crime of not paying for privatized health insurance. It tells you who is the boss around here.