15 year later: Obamacare

[berg80]

The hell it did. Obamacare was supposed to bend the cost curve DOWN. That was the promise.

The promise was to slow medical cost inflation.

AI Overview

Yes, the ACA succeeded in slowing medical inflation, although it did not eliminate cost growth. Healthcare spending growth slowed after the ACA's major provisions took effect in 2014, dropping from an average of 6.9% annually before the law to 4.3% annually in the period after. The ACA included several cost-containment measures like Medicare payment reforms and private insurance market changes that likely contributed to this slowdown.

 

[Nostra]

There's a reason you can't pick up your phone and call any insurance company in the country and buy your health insurance the same way you buy your auto, home, and life insurance.

There's a reason you are held hostage to your employer's health care plan, and have no options.

Our politicians are being paid very well to keep you in a box.

Both sides.

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Any insurance company will sell you a plan, liar. Nobody is forced to buy employer plans, liar.

Next?

 

[g5000]

The promise was to slow medical cost inflation.

So long as there is a tax deduction for employer supported health insurance, the cost will always bend UP.

ESHI needs to go away.

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[CrazyTrader55]

Well, THANK GOD Donald Trump and the Republicans repealed and replaced Obamacare as Trump promised they would on Day One of his first adminstration, amiright?

You whine and whine about Obamcare, but never say ONE. *******. WORD about the fact you were hoaxed by Trump and the GOP.

Where are your topics about that, rube? Where's your anger about Trump's lies?

You DESERVE to be lied to.

Trump owns the cost of health care, dipshit. And the Republicans.

Trump and the GOP totally own health care now.

Time to start holding them accountable.

I wasn't "hoaxed" by anyone nor did I expect Trump (or any other politician of either party) to "fix" healthcare. The problem is not fixable.

 

[Greenbeard]

Any insurance company will sell you a plan, liar.

True, thanks to Obamacare.

 

[Nostra]

True, thanks to Obamacare.

Always been that way, Dipshit.

Why does Barrycare need massive subsidies to make it “affordable “?

 

[22lcidw]

It amazes me that after 15 years. the gullible tards have STILL not asked to see the Republican replacement.

Just how dead does your brain have to be to not ask to see the replacement and yet still whine about Obamacare?

You have to be one of the dumbest, most willfully blind dipshits who ever walked the Earth.

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It is not about Obamacare and a replacement. It is about ending the lives after a certain age and those with expensive health issues. It is about forcing healthy choices on citizens. Progressives have made statements on these things. And the sanctimonious bullshot is condemning RFK Jr. on his agendas to try to get us healthier which Democrats have promoted in the past without doing anything.

 

[Billiejeens]

Fetterman: ACA Subsidies Weren’t Being Taken Away by GOP, Dems ‘Designed Those Tax Credits to Expire’ . . . “Democrats designed those tax credits to expire at [the end of] this year. That’s the Democratic Party," Fetterman said. "That’s not something they’re taking away. They’re saying, we can have a conversation to extend them. And I do hope we should, and I think many of their constituents are going to be impacted, too. And that’s why I think that’s a way forward to find that without dropping our entire country into this chaos.”

 

[Billiejeens]

 

[tshrimp]

Worked fine until the GOP showed up.

It did great by by costing me money. Company I worked for provided great and affordable healthcare to us, but it was a "Cadillac Plan" so the cost skyrocketed for me as no company was going to eat that cost increase. Thanks dems for taking even more money out of my pocket. Maybe I can retire in the year 2099.

 

[Billiejeens]

The night that Taylor Swift realized that she wasn't country.

 

[Greenbeard]

It did great by by costing me money. Company I worked for provided great and affordable healthcare to us, but it was a "Cadillac Plan" so the cost skyrocketed for me as no company was going to eat that cost increase. Thanks dems for taking even more money out of my pocket. Maybe I can retire in the year 2099.

Sounds like your employer took money out of your pocket, not the Dems.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Worked fine until the GOP showed up.

Where was the $2500 a year savings?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Nah, it's worked fine. Record levels of coverage, record-low cost growth, better care and outcomes, all under budget. Cue the GOP trying to break it so they can complain it doesn't work.

Remember when Obama was going to pay for the subsidies with the student loan profits?

What a fucktard he turned out to be.

 

[Billiejeens]

Where was the $2500 a year savings?

Fantasy land

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

It's been working fine, but you single-payer types will probably get your shot at eliminating insurance companies now that the GOP is dismantling it. Go wild.



The median deductible for plans purchased in the ACA marketplace this year is ... $0.

Approximately $2,789 per year
The median deductible for plans purchased in the ACA marketplace in 2025 is approximately $2,789 per year. This figure reflects the average amount that enrollees are required to pay out-of-pocket before their insurance coverage begins.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

There was no "increasing health care," those are the full premium amounts, pre-subsidy.

But yes, enhancing the subsidies is the reason premiums didn't grow, as it turns out that pulling in more shoppers, improving the risk profile of the pool, and drawing in more competing insurers is pretty effective at holding down premium growth.

But yes, enhancing the subsidies is the reason premiums didn't grow, as it turns out that pulling in more shoppers, improving the risk profile of the pool, and drawing in more competing insurers is pretty effective at holding down premium growth.

It wasn't improving the risk profile.

 

[Greenbeard]

Approximately $2,789 per year
The median deductible for plans purchased in the ACA marketplace in 2025 is approximately $2,789 per year. This figure reflects the average amount that enrollees are required to pay out-of-pocket before their insurance coverage begins.

False, the median deductible among selected plans is zero.

2014-2025 OEP Plan Design Public Use File

 

[struth]

It's coming, folks. Single-payer health care.

The Democrats have never hidden the fact that is their goal. Ever since Ted Kennedy's "socialized medicine" plan in the 70s.

That's what they called single-payer health care back then. Socialized medicine.

That's their plan. Always has been.


The Republican counter to the Democratic plan?

NOTHING.



And that's how I know the Democrats are going to win.


The Republicans sold you down the river decades ago, kids. They are putting up token resistance as theater for you rubes.

And you let them get away with it.

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Nope here’s the gop plan https://simpson.house.gov/uploadedfiles/summary.pdf

And it won’t bankrupt the country or cause 3 month waits to see a doctor like your Canadian plan

 

[Independent thinker]

Obamacare has officially failed. It took 15 years, but it has failed.

If you liked your doctor, you didn't get to keep your doctor.

If you liked your healthcare plan, you didn't get to keep your healthcare plan.

Obamacare didn't bring down costs a single penny.

Obama lied.

Remember these geniuses telling saying that you had to pass the bill, to find out what was in the bill?

Here's what was in the bill:

It's only affordable if the US government picks up the tab.