Benefit mandates have always existed in the individual and small group markets.
In my experience here, it sometimes feels as though people on individual plans are mythical creatures that only exist in some sort of hypothetical universe. People in support of the ACA (thank you) will tend to speak of individual plans in the abstract (although knowledgeably, so again...thank you), and people who are ideologically opposed to it are either on an employment, retirement, veteran's assistance or some other variety of health plan that is not individual.
I'm on an individual plan myself. Or at least I will be until the end of the year, which is when my provider will cancel my plan due to the extreme instability that Trump and the Republican-controlled congress have caused this year. I may be fine, I may not be, I may find something else with no interruption or change in my premiums...who knows, I may even end up paying less. Point is, I don't know.
I'm just curious which people are on which plans, and therefore who's affected by the ongoing debate.
My poll options are vague and incomplete because I'm not knowledgeable on the complete spectrum of plans offered to different groups of people.
Anthem?s Retreat Leaves Californians With Fewer Choices, More Worries | Kaiser Health News
The mandate to buy insurance and the essential health benefits have driven prices through the roof, except for those who get subsidies. The solution to the problem isn't to just add more money onto our 20 trillion dollar debt by constantly increasing subsidies to the poorer while the middle class get royally screwed. And the solution is also not to increase subsidies to the middle class.
How do you explain healthcare prices going through the roof prior to the ACA? Don't cherry-pick individual years, look at the general trajectory. Prices have been steadily climbing roughly the same before and since.
Is this your concession that price increases have not increased simply because of the ACA, as you said in your previous post?In other words, Obamacare has done absolutely nothing to stop or even slow down rising healthcare costs, as it was advertised to do.
Is this your concession that price increases have not increased simply because of the ACA, as you said in your previous post?
Just want to clarify.
And in regards to this post, no, it has not slowed down increases... but neither has it increased them. Even Obama himself admitted as much in an interview last year that the 'affordable' part hasn't worked out.
In other words, Obamacare has done absolutely nothing to stop or even slow down rising healthcare costs, as it was advertised to do.
Those are extremely poor graphs. They don't mean a damn thing. Typical lefty cherry picked stats. First of all, it compares 1990-2010. That's 20 years. The next one compares 7 years. Anything could alter the results in the middle of the time frame. We need a year by year comparison.
Secondly, what in the hell are economy wide prices? You're comparing one aspect (healthcare) to a bunch of other aspects, all of which move both up and down individually, such as the energy sector. These last few years energy and inflation has been on a downward trend, which skews the results.
Which they also produce.
The GDP deflator.
And yes, obviously we're comparing health care's recent historically low price growth to price growth in the rest of the economy. They've been growing at the same rate for the better part of a decade, which is a big deal. And contrary to the point you made above that the post-ACA landscape hasn't been different.
Retired Tri-care Prime.
Almost free.
In my experience here, it sometimes feels as though people on individual plans are mythical creatures that only exist in some sort of hypothetical universe. People in support of the ACA (thank you) will tend to speak of individual plans in the abstract (although knowledgeably, so again...thank you), and people who are ideologically opposed to it are either on an employment, retirement, veteran's assistance or some other variety of health plan that is not individual.
I'm on an individual plan myself. Or at least I will be until the end of the year, which is when my provider will cancel my plan due to the extreme instability that Trump and the Republican-controlled congress have caused this year. I may be fine, I may not be, I may find something else with no interruption or change in my premiums...who knows, I may even end up paying less. Point is, I don't know.
I'm just curious which people are on which plans, and therefore who's affected by the ongoing debate.
My poll options are vague and incomplete because I'm not knowledgeable on the complete spectrum of plans offered to different groups of people.
Anthem?s Retreat Leaves Californians With Fewer Choices, More Worries | Kaiser Health News
When libs say stupid **** like this, do they really expect to be taken seriously?
I assume you have evidence to back up this claim?
First, dial it down. Your behavior is completely out of line and uncalled for.