The real reason republicans want to scrap the AHCA

[Ben Thomson]

Republicans get on tv and whine about how Obamacare has raised people's healthcare costs..yada..yada..yada..here's a big reason they really want it gone...Obamacare repeal would bring a huge tax cut for the rich, research shows

 

[Andylusion]

Republicans get on tv and whine about how Obamacare has raised people's healthcare costs..yada..yada..yada..here's a big reason they really want it gone...Obamacare repeal would bring a huge tax cut for the rich, research shows

In 2006, I had a private insurance policy that covered everything I needed, for $67/month.

In 2010, to today, the cheapest policy I can find is over $300 a month.

By every possible measure, insurance premiums and the added costs of deductibles have increased dramatically faster than they ever did before the ACA.

That is why we support eliminating the ACA.

 

[Blackrook]

Tax cuts aren't bad, you know.

 

[BlueGin]

Republicans get on tv and whine about how Obamacare has raised people's healthcare costs..yada..yada..yada..here's a big reason they really want it gone...Obamacare repeal would bring a huge tax cut for the rich, research shows

In 2006, I had a private insurance policy that covered everything I needed, for $67/month.

In 2010, to today, the cheapest policy I can find is over $300 a month.

By every possible measure, insurance premiums and the added costs of deductions have increased dramatically faster than they ever did before the ACA.

That is why we support eliminating the ACA.

Yep. My insurance didn’t have a deductible. Now it has a deductible of $ 2500.00.

 

[Ben Thomson]

Republicans get on tv and whine about how Obamacare has raised people's healthcare costs..yada..yada..yada..here's a big reason they really want it gone...Obamacare repeal would bring a huge tax cut for the rich, research shows

In 2006, I had a private insurance policy that covered everything I needed, for $67/month.

In 2010, to today, the cheapest policy I can find is over $300 a month.

By every possible measure, insurance premiums and the added costs of deductions have increased dramatically faster than they ever did before the ACA.

That is why we support eliminating the ACA.

You really think your policy will go back to $67/month once the SCOTUS strikes down the ACA??..you really that naive.

 

[Jarlaxle]

Yep. My insurance didn’t have a deductible. Now it has a deductible of $ 2500.00.

My wife's deductible doubled...while her premium quintupled.

 

[Missourian]

Republicans get on tv and whine about how Obamacare has raised people's healthcare costs..yada..yada..yada..here's a big reason they really want it gone...Obamacare repeal would bring a huge tax cut for the rich, research shows

In 2006, I had a private insurance policy that covered everything I needed, for $67/month.

In 2010, to today, the cheapest policy I can find is over $300 a month.

By every possible measure, insurance premiums and the added costs of deductibles have increased dramatically faster than they ever did before the ACA.

That is why we support eliminating the ACA.

I WISH I could find a policy at $300 a month. Try twice that on for size.

Obamacare is another government program that PENALIZES the workers to subsidize the Gi'mee Class.

Gi'mee money.

Gi'mee a place to live.

Gi'mee food.

Gi'mee paid utilities.

Gi'mee healthcare.

Gi'mee an Obama-phone.

Gi'mee, gi'mee, gi'mee...it's my right...I'm entitled to it. See me breathing? Gi'mee stuff. I participated.

 

[Andylusion]

Republicans get on tv and whine about how Obamacare has raised people's healthcare costs..yada..yada..yada..here's a big reason they really want it gone...Obamacare repeal would bring a huge tax cut for the rich, research shows

In 2006, I had a private insurance policy that covered everything I needed, for $67/month.

In 2010, to today, the cheapest policy I can find is over $300 a month.

By every possible measure, insurance premiums and the added costs of deductions have increased dramatically faster than they ever did before the ACA.

That is why we support eliminating the ACA.

You really think your policy will go back to $67/month once the SCOTUS strikes down the ACA??..you really that naive.

The free-market works every single time that it is tried.

I'll give you an example. Lasik Eye surgery.

In the late 1990s, the cost of a LASIK eye surgery, was over $2,100 per eye. The price fell down to $1,600 per eye, and over the last decade, is around $1,700 per eye.

The difference between LASIK and other hospital surgeries, is the market incentives, and the government control.

As with any socialized system, there is no incentive to reduce costs, because if the government finds out you found a way to do knee surgery for $2,000 instead of $20,000, the government will cut Medicare payments.

So there is no profit to finding less expensive ways of achieving the same outcome.

With LASIK, if they find a cheaper way to do the eye surgery, the result is a lower price that increases customers which results in more profit. Thus, the entire industry under a free-market capitalist system, has a direct incentive to find ways to do the same thing for a lower price.

So back to your point.....

Yes, absolutely I know for a fact that if we deregulate the industry, that prices will fall.

If another insurance company, under deregulation, is able to put together a policy that allows them to reduce premiums by half.... they know, that people like me will switch my insurance to them.

Which will force all insurance companies to compete on price, and reduce cost.

We already know this by the way.

What happened after the deregulation of the airlines?

Prices fell dramatically, and more people could afford to fly.

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

Republicans get on tv and whine about how Obamacare has raised people's healthcare costs..yada..yada..yada..here's a big reason they really want it gone...Obamacare repeal would bring a huge tax cut for the rich, research shows

I always have to laugh at those who have to rely on the government to take from those that work, and give it to the lazy liberal schmucks who dont. Then when there is a tax cut for the working class, those schmucks bitch and moan that they dont get more.

 

[Maxdeath]

You just got to love the crazies. Cost are what they are they can’t go down. When has anything the government ever been involved in reduced costs? Medicare sees cases of fraud almost monthly. That does not reduce costs it increases costs.
The whole idea of penalizing people for not being in ACA was the most crooked scheme ever.
You can keep your doctor, you can keep your policy was the biggest scam.
Any fool that thinks a $2500.00 copay is insurance is nuttier then a fruit cake

 

[edthecynic]

Yep. My insurance didn’t have a deductible. Now it has a deductible of $ 2500.00.

My wife's deductible doubled...while her premium quintupled.

that is on her employer, not Obamacare!!!! But you knew that already!

 

[edthecynic]

Republicans get on tv and whine about how Obamacare has raised people's healthcare costs..yada..yada..yada..here's a big reason they really want it gone...Obamacare repeal would bring a huge tax cut for the rich, research shows

In 2006, I had a private insurance policy that covered everything I needed, for $67/month.

In 2010, to today, the cheapest policy I can find is over $300 a month.

By every possible measure, insurance premiums and the added costs of deductibles have increased dramatically faster than they ever did before the ACA.

That is why we support eliminating the ACA.

that is because your employer has shifted the costs onto you to save money for himself. It has NOTHING to do with the PPACA, and nobody knows that better than you.

 

[tycho1572]

I was fortunate to have private insurance. May god help those who are depending the aca.

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

Yep. My insurance didn’t have a deductible. Now it has a deductible of $ 2500.00.

My wife's deductible doubled...while her premium quintupled.

that is on her employer, not Obamacare!!!! But you knew that already!

Not that a lot of doctors left the practice, thus making choice, a lot harder and more expensive. Thanks Obama.

 

[Jarlaxle]

My wife's deductible doubled...while her premium quintupled.

that is on her employer, not Obamacare!!!! But you knew that already!

No, it's because the insurance her employer had to choose from was MUCH more expensive.

 

[Jarlaxle]

Yep. My insurance didn’t have a deductible. Now it has a deductible of $ 2500.00.

My wife's deductible doubled...while her premium quintupled.

that is on her employer, not Obamacare!!!! But you knew that already!

Not that a lot of doctors left the practice, thus making choice, a lot harder and more expensive. Thanks Obama.

That too. She got the hat trick: lost her GP, orthopedist, and OBGYN.

 

[BlueGin]

My wife's deductible doubled...while her premium quintupled.

that is on her employer, not Obamacare!!!! But you knew that already!

No, it's because the insurance her employer had to choose from was MUCH more expensive.

Exactly.

 

[edthecynic]

Yep. My insurance didn’t have a deductible. Now it has a deductible of $ 2500.00.

My wife's deductible doubled...while her premium quintupled.

that is on her employer, not Obamacare!!!! But you knew that already!

Not that a lot of doctors left the practice, thus making choice, a lot harder and more expensive. Thanks Obama.

Just another Russian scripted Tramp LIE parroted by mindless SUCKERS!!!!
No matter how many times Tramp makes fools of you SUCKERS you still come back for more abuse!
Actually, the total number of active physicians has increased nearly 8 percent under the health care law, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. The number jumped from 799,501 when the ACA became law in 2010, to 860,939 in 2015, the most recent data available. The increase is similar to the 9 percent jump over the previous five-year period, from 2005 to 2010, according to figures provided to us by the AAMC.

 

[edthecynic]

My wife's deductible doubled...while her premium quintupled.

that is on her employer, not Obamacare!!!! But you knew that already!

No, it's because the insurance her employer had to choose from was MUCH more expensive.

Exactly.

PRIVATE insurance was more expensive, you mean.

 

[BlueGin]

My wife's deductible doubled...while her premium quintupled.

that is on her employer, not Obamacare!!!! But you knew that already!

No, it's because the insurance her employer had to choose from was MUCH more expensive.

Exactly.

PRIVATE insurance was more expensive, you mean.

I mean exactly what I said was correct. Employers insurance went up. Both their portion and mine. And the deductible was added on $ 2500.00 From zero.