Obama declared that Obamacare would not add one dime to the national debt. Obama declared that every family in America would see their annual premiums go down by $2,500. Obama declared that 30 million uninsured Americans would now be covered.
Does anyone ever get held accountable for their promises in this country?
My annual healthcare costs have risen by an average of 10% per year since Obamacare was implemented, and I work for a large institution. Millions have lost coverage or have seen their costs double or triple.
The assumptions put forth by the government were bogus, so premiums for the actual Obamacare plans are going up 20% to 50% per year.
No liberal ever mentions the fact that deductibles for the cheapest Obamacare plans run from $5,000 to $10,000. How many middle class people can pay those deductibles?
And the coup de grace. Only 10 million people are signed up for Obamacare, and most of them had coverage before it came along.
Obamacare is a disaster and will only get worse as time goes on. The Medicaid system is being swamped and the bankrupt states will become more bankrupt.
Government destroying our lives, a day at a time. So it goes.
Guest Post by Michael Tanner
As we await the Supreme Court’s decision on subsidies, an interim report. We haven’t heard much about Obamacare from the media lately (with the exception of Paul Krugman, who slips a paragraph into every other column — regardless of topic — to tell us how well it’s working). It’s as if both supporters and opponents of the health-care law are holding their collective breaths as they wait for the Supreme Court, which is expected to decide any day now whether the law will be able to survive in its current form.
Obamacare’s opponents have mostly been caucusing behind closed doors trying to decide whether and when to offer an alternative — and how much to offer — should the Court require the law to be implemented as written — that is, without subsidies on federally run exchanges.
The law’s advocates, meanwhile, may have been left speechless by the news that Obamacare has tied an all-time low for public support, according to the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll. Just 39 percent of registered voters back the law, tying an all-time low last reached in April 2012. Fifty-four percent oppose it, and while that’s not a record, it represents a six-point increase in opposition over the past year.
Or maybe the law’s supporters simply have little response to the ongoing spate of news suggesting that, Krugman notwithstanding, the law is still not working very well. For example, insurance companies have begun submitting their requests for rate increases for 2016, and those requests suggest that premiums could skyrocket next year.
Already we’ve seen requests for increases for individual plans as high as 64.8 percent in Texas, 61 percent in Pennsylvania, 51.6 percent in New Mexico, 36.3 percent in Tennessee, 30.4 percent in Maryland, 25 percent in Oregon, and 19.9 percent in Washington.
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