Has anyone else noticed that the defense of Obamacare has switched from it cutting premiums to the premium hikes will be lower than expected? Can anyone explain why the people, like me, who insisted that it wouldn't work to reduce costs should accept higher costs as good news?
People who don't work directly in the industry don't know and only parrot the BS they are fed.
I hate making that statement. It is a true statement, I live it.
Which BS is that? This has nothing to do with intimate knowledge of 'the industry'. This is a recognition that PPACA was a giant bait-and-switch on everyone. The health care market is deeply dysfunctional and we're facing the bizarre circumstance that, despite the fact that we enjoy a standard of living well above that of the rest of the world, most of us can't afford ordinary health care expenses.
Congress, and the President claimed a federal program was need to address this problem. They promised reduced costs for those of us worried about price inflation. They promised 'universal coverage' and 'single payer' for those who didn't want to worry about paying for health care at all. Naturally, we got neither. What we got instead was radical expansion of federal and corporate control over our how we finance out health care. They sold us out. Period.
