Obama Warned Us – Fight for Obamacare

On the sixth anniversary of #Obamacare, stand with @OFA and say you’ll keep fighting for affordable health care: http://ofa.bo/yMX

@BarackObama

“And by ‘keep fighting’, I mean literally sucker-punch anyone who badmouths Obamacare.”

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Funny how the idea that Obamacare has anything to do with care is continually perpetuated.

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……and say you’ll keep fighting for affordable health care, maybe someday you’ll get it, but don’t hold your breath.

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Is Obama’s writer still pretending not to know the difference between health insurance and health care?

With health insurance costs skyrocketing, why does he think health care costs are affordable?

Health Insurance Costs Have Nowhere To Go But Up
CBS News | November 20, 2014 | By Ray Martin

[Still true today:]

<Folks are used to the fact that health insurance costs always seem to go up. They've done so for the last 14 years, with the highest annual increase of about 14 percent and the lowest at about 3 percent. But the increases for 2015 are staggering, ranging from 20 percent to over 60 percent.

And consumers need to plan for more rate hikes over the next several years, especially those who have coverage through their employer. One of the biggest causes behind these increases is the Affordable Care Act (ACA), so called because it was supposed to provide more affordable health insurance for all.

According to a brief from the American Academy of Actuaries, several factors appear to be pushing health insurance premium up in 2015 and in future years. They include:

Risk pool composition: The ACA prohibits insurers from charging different premiums to individuals based on their health status.

Reinsurance fund reductions: The ACA created a reinsurance program to provide payments to insurance plans to help offset the costs of enrolling individuals with higher claims.

Rising cost of medical services: This increase, the so called medical trend, results from an ever-worsening demand-supply imbalance.

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There’s an ever growing group for whom the price of insurance (and everything else) has remained the same since they started leaching off people who work. $0 + $0 = $0.