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发帖数: 29846 | 1 5 Devastating Obamacare Facts Every American Should Know
by Scot Vorse23 Nov 20150
Last week’s devastating Obamacare announcement by United Healthcare — it
expects to lose $600 million on Obamacare policies next year — further
confirms what conservatives have known and said all along: Obamacare is a
disaster.
The nation’s largest health insurer is even considering pulling out of
Obamacare altogether.
Below, then, are five devastating Obamacare facts every American should know
about President Barack Obama’s signature legislative achievement:
1. Insurance companies are withdrawing in droves
Commenting on the potential withdrawal from all Obamacare exchanges,
UnitedHealth CEO Stephen Hemsley said in an investor call Thursday morning
“We cannot sustain these losses . . . We can’t really subsidize a
marketplace that doesn’t appear at the moment to be sustaining itself.”
Additionally, a critical element to Obamacare was the creation of co-ops in
order to spur competition and create less expensive coverage for consumers.
However, as Breitbart reported, with the recent closure of the Michigan
Obamacare co-op, more “than half of the 23 original co-ops have now failed.
Previous closures include the co-ops in Arizona, Utah, South Carolina,
Colorado, Iowa/Nebraska, Louisiana, New York, Nevada, Tennessee, Oregon, and
Kentucky.”
2. “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan” was a brazen and cruel
lie.
Obama repeatedly promised Americans “If you like your health care plan, you
can keep it.” This may have been a catchy political phrase for approval of
his senseless program but after millions of Americans had their plans
cancelled Obama’s infamous fabrication was named the 2013 PolitiFact Lie of
the Year.
3. Still waiting on that $2,500 in savings Obama promised you? You’re not
alone. Premiums are skyrocketing nationwide.
As a candidate in 2008, Obama boasted his healthcare plan would reduce the
typical family’s annual premiums by up to $2,500 per year. To the contrary,
rates have skyrocketed. As Breitbart recently reported “Across the board,
Obamacare premium prices are increasing 20.3 percent for 2016” – this
increase is on top of the more than 20 percent 2015 Obamacare hike.
4. Obamacare customers say their plans are “useless” due to soaring
deductibles
In an effort to convince people to sign up for Obamacare, Obama officials
have hyped low premiums available on the exchanges. Unfortunately, the sky-
high deductibles are making these plan useless. The New York Times described
a common experience of Obamacare consumers “The deductible, $3,000 a year,
makes it impossible to actually go to the doctor,” said David R. Reines,
60, of Jefferson Township, N.J., a former hardware salesman with chronic
knee pain. “We have insurance, but can’t afford to use it.”
Furthermore, as the New York Times article reported “In many states, more
than half the plans offered for sale through HealthCare.gov, the federal
online marketplace, have a deductible of $3,000 or more.”
5. The Obamacare “death spiral” conservatives warned about is real.
As Breitbart highlighted, “Obamacare appears to have entered an insurance
industry “death spiral.”
Basically, too many sick people are signing up, and too few healthy people
are doing so. This causes prices to surge, and that causes fewer healthy
people to sign up. The death spiral continues until the insurance program
collapse completely. The 20.3 percent price increase for 2016 is probably
the cause of the current round of the Obamacare death spiral.
As these facts make painfully clear, Obamacare is not the answer. What is
needed is a product Americans want to buy, one based on common sense and
easily understandable benefits and incentives. A program that forces people
facing tough budget choices to purchase a product they don’t want to buy
through penalties is a train wreck in the making. The time has come for
Oblimination — the full scale dismantling of Obamacare and replacing it
with a system based on free market principles that actually work. | l*****9
发帖数: 9501 | 2 obamacare确实暂时加速了美国healthcare spending
但是回到obamacare以前并不能解决美国healthcare spending无法控制的问题
唯一的对策是single payer |
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