Healthcare Premiums Soar

[drudge X]

It has taken pretty good care of me. I have no complaints. I am still here. I would be dead if I lived in the UK.

You would be far healthier if this country's health care system is similar to Japan's.

 

[Hellbilly]

Yes, through taxation from other taxpayers.

Just like the police, fire department, road plow crews.
All taxpayer funded

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

You would be far healthier if this country's health care system is similar to Japan's.

I doubt it. I had to have a liver transplant. In a foreign country, that usually doesn't happen. I had two of the leading experts in this country work on me. My Anthem/Blue Cross insurance was worth every dime. My wife got it through her work.

 

[pknopp]

It was not supposed to cost much at all. And from my experience I saw no on denied to the emergency room.

You aren't going to get your cancer treated through the ER.

 

[struth]

Because it did.

Before Obamacare premiums were lower

 

[debbiedowner]

Funny thing is, the ACA was modeled on a Republican plan.

Hell, not just Romney in Mass but old Newt wanted something modeled like this back in 2006. Most of the ACA was modeled off both.

 

[debbiedowner]

We HAD a full individual market where people could pick their own insurers and plans - and it cost less. That’s because government wasn’t subsidizing people’s premiums.

But Obamacare wiped that out. Individual plans disappeared.

You leftists are so clueless it’s exasperating to try to educate you.

I think you are the one that is clueless.

 

[pknopp]

Before Obamacare premiums were lower

Everything was lower.

 

[debbiedowner]

I never said go without completely. A catastrophic care plan WOULD have taken care of that - but Obamacare wiped them out.

So bronze plans aren't catastrophic enough for you? BTW a few companies did have cat plans but not many took advantage of them. I have no idea if there any today.

 

[struth]

Everything was lower.

So Obamacare didn’t lower cost,

 

[sartre play]

The ACA is health insurance, not healthcare. There is a difference.

That is true.

 

[debbiedowner]

Kicking all the sick people off insurance will make it cheaper but wind up screwing a ton of Americans who actually need medical care.

We tried it and it was unsustainable.

The ACA isn’t making costs more expensive in the way you think. It’s more expensive because people are actually getting the care they need.

Well, when you have to insure someone regardless of pre x and you make all males and old people pay for maternity it is making it more expensive.

 

[debbiedowner]

Insurance makes healthcare more expensive.

No, it's the law itself.

 

[Lisa558]

So bronze plans aren't catastrophic enough for you? BTW a few companies did have cat plans but not many took advantage of them. I have no idea if there any today.

Yes, bronze plans are esssentially catastrophic care policies - which is why I ended up having to pay all my medical bills - but Obamacare drove premiums up so much that they cost what a “golden” health insurance policy used to.

Obama really screwed us.

 

[sartre play]

It seems to me that our gub'mit, despite it's best intents, fails to see the consequences of their actions no matter how obvious they appear.....~S~

Both sides of the isle.

 

[Lisa558]

Well, when you have to insure someone regardless of pre x and you make all males and old people pay for maternity it is making it more expensive.

Yup. Obama made people buy insurance coverage on things they’d never need. Of course the policies would cost more.

 

[Lisa558]

No, it's the law itself.

So you admit that Obama’s law made the cost of insurance go up.

 

[struth]

Yes, bronze plans are esssentially catastrophic care policies - which is why I ended up having to pay all my medical bills - but Obamacare drove premiums up so much that they cost what a “golden” health insurance policy used to.

Obama really screwed us.

Not just him, from 2022-2023…healthcare inflation went from 4.6 to 7.5 percent

 

[pknopp]

So Obamacare didn’t lower cost,

Have you read what I've wrote? I've condemned it over and over for not addressing costs.

 

[struth]

So you admit that Obama’s law made the cost of insurance go up.

The law did nothing to lower the cost of healthcare

What it did was limit the coverage insueance comps could offer, punished people that didn’t have coverage, and then give bailouts to if insurance companies to help cover the extra cost they were spending

It was just fascism