obamacare was designed to fail, it just wasn't designed to fail this fast. The plan was to get everyone or at least lots of people used to very cheap or even free healthcare and then when the system collapsed of its own weight the pump would be primed to switch to single payer.
Your plan got dropped by whom? By your employer? Why? Remember the employer mandate is not yet in force. It doesn't make sense that it was dropped as a result of Obamacare.
Medical care plans have been increasing in cost faster than inflation for quite some time now. What makes sense is that the plan was dropped due to costs to your employer. Now, is the entire premium more, or just the part that you pay? If the entire premium is more, why would your employer have chosen it?
. .... When are you going to read the bill?
It is a great idea and hopefully the first step on the road to Universial health care.
Will RomneyCare on a national scale succeed?
I don't select any of the answers because I don't think ACA is perfect. It's a step. I accept it as just that, a step in the right direction. So, if you change the nuggets and fires to To Steak and Lobster, I'd vote for that.
Will RomneyCare on a national scale succeed?
Will ObamneyCare work?
Costs as a result of ObamaCare.
as a first step to real national health care, maybe. however, as a long term stand alone program, i doubt it is sustainable. it's going to be picked apart piece by piece by Republicans throwing tantrums. first, they are going to get the medical device tax rescinded as a bone in the coming months, and that's part of what funds it. there will probably be a delay of implementation, and it's possible that the penalty for not getting insurance will eventually be reduced or eliminated. more employers will get exemptions, as well. granted, i don't think an employer should be a health care provider.
it was well intentioned, but we should have just done medicare for all. the public option should have been the final compromise; had that made it through, the law might have been more workable. hopefully we can transition single payer once the makeup of congress is different, but i think it will take at least a decade to get there, and probably longer.
Exactly how are they recovered?
That makes no sense. The employer is not mandated to have health care at all just yet. What makes sense is that the employer found a way to get out from under the costs of health insurance, at least for a while. Employees can now get their own plans at a subsidized rate, after all.
Our current health care system DOES WORK for the 1% and those who never get sick and those who hate our government....
That is about 20-30% or so....
The other 70 - 80 % do not matter..... far too many don't vote......
I see. So, Obamacare actually is so bad that it is causing an increase in premium cost retroactively.
Yeah, that's precisely what is happenning. The employers no longer have to provide those benefits because the government now does. Hope folks are happy with the change, but I know they aren't.
That makes no sense. The employer is not mandated to have health care at all just yet. What makes sense is that the employer found a way to get out from under the costs of health insurance, at least for a while. Employees can now get their own plans at a subsidized rate, after all.
I don't select any of the answers because I don't think ACA is perfect. It's a step. I accept it as just that, a step in the right direction. So, if you change the nuggets and fires to To Steak and Lobster, I'd vote for that.
Not sure what you mean by them increasing retroactively....
It is a great idea and hopefully the first step on the road to Universial health care.
I'm sure they aren't. But, then, what happens when the employer mandate kicks in in a year? Are they going to fire everybody, hire them part time, or pay the cost of health insurance?
Clearly, the way to go about this is to take the burden of health insurance off of the backs of the employers.
Premiums have been going up far faster than inflation since way before anyone heard of Obama or Obamacare.
If it is, in fact, a first step to uhc, then yes, it's a great idea. If it just stops there however it'll be a little disappointing.
Why are you people so dead set on giving up your right to life? I just can't figure this out.
And they are increasing even MORE due to ObamaCare and the mandate. We were told by our insurance provider, not our company, our provider, that we each have an extra 29 dollars on our premium this year that doesn't go toward OUR healthcare, it goes toward people getting subsidies. For our company alone that is over $140,000 per year. That is ridiculous!
$29 a year is a drop in the bucket. Some years, premiums have increased 30% and more. I recall one year in which Blue Cross raised rates by 50%.
Don't get me wrong, Obamacare is not bringing down prices, nor is it a solution to the health care crisis that has existed for years in this country. It is also not the train wreck that we're being told it is. We are, in fact, being fed a huge load of bull(bleep!) about the Affordable Care Act.
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