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ObamaCare: 10 years of distress and disappointment

The Hill [DC], by Chris Talgo

 

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March 2020 marks the 10th anniversary of the passage of the Affordable Care Act, also known as ObamaCare.

 

In its first decade, ObamaCare has failed to solve many of the health care problems it was supposed to address. Even worse, it has compounded many of the issues it was meant to fix — the law of unintended consequences in action.

 

First, then-candidate Barack Obama said his namesake act would “cut the cost of a typical family’s premiums by up to $2,500 a year.” In reality, the opposite has occurred. According to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), “premiums have doubled for individual health insurance plans since 2013

 

 

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  On 3/7/2020 at 3:17 PM, B-Man said:

 

 

 

ObamaCare: 10 years of distress and disappointment

The Hill [DC], by Chris Talgo

 

Original Article

 

March 2020 marks the 10th anniversary of the passage of the Affordable Care Act, also known as ObamaCare.

 

In its first decade, ObamaCare has failed to solve many of the health care problems it was supposed to address. Even worse, it has compounded many of the issues it was meant to fix — the law of unintended consequences in action.

 

First, then-candidate Barack Obama said his namesake act would “cut the cost of a typical family’s premiums by up to $2,500 a year.” In reality, the opposite has occurred. According to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), “premiums have doubled for individual health insurance plans since 2013

 

 

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...ObamaCare=HillaryCare............the Dynasty propped him up.......

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  On 3/7/2020 at 3:17 PM, B-Man said:

 

 

 

ObamaCare: 10 years of distress and disappointment

The Hill [DC], by Chris Talgo

 

Original Article

 

March 2020 marks the 10th anniversary of the passage of the Affordable Care Act, also known as ObamaCare.

 

In its first decade, ObamaCare has failed to solve many of the health care problems it was supposed to address. Even worse, it has compounded many of the issues it was meant to fix — the law of unintended consequences in action.

 

First, then-candidate Barack Obama said his namesake act would “cut the cost of a typical family’s premiums by up to $2,500 a year.” In reality, the opposite has occurred. According to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), “premiums have doubled for individual health insurance plans since 2013

 

 

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Well, if it weren't for those damned obstructionist Republicans...

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  On 3/7/2020 at 3:17 PM, B-Man said:

 

 

 

ObamaCare: 10 years of distress and disappointment

The Hill [DC], by Chris Talgo

 

Original Article

 

March 2020 marks the 10th anniversary of the passage of the Affordable Care Act, also known as ObamaCare.

 

In its first decade, ObamaCare has failed to solve many of the health care problems it was supposed to address. Even worse, it has compounded many of the issues it was meant to fix — the law of unintended consequences in action.

 

First, then-candidate Barack Obama said his namesake act would “cut the cost of a typical family’s premiums by up to $2,500 a year.” In reality, the opposite has occurred. According to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), “premiums have doubled for individual health insurance plans since 2013

 

 

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Yep, we know all too well over here.

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  On 3/9/2020 at 9:03 PM, Tiberius said:

Day one! Obamacare goes on day one! 

 

Promises kept! ?

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I wouldn't be so quick with the satire there Tibs. If ObamaCare was the program the Democrats cooked up to fix health care in this country....why is health care your reported #1 issue just six or seven years later? Is it possible they didn't read it before passing it?  Have you even stopped to think that it's the Dems who are running on fixing it?

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  On 3/9/2020 at 11:56 PM, SoCal Deek said:

I wouldn't be so quick with the satire there Tibs. If ObamaCare was the program the Democrats cooked up to fix health care in this country....why is health care your reported #1 issue just six or seven years later? Is it possible they didn't read it before passing it?  Have you even stopped to think that it's the Dems who are running on fixing it?

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Very easy to answer. It was as far as they could go at the time. Now it's time to expand it. Many of the red states refused to accept the help out of spite. Still more work needs to be done. 

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  On 3/10/2020 at 1:55 PM, Tiberius said:

Very easy to answer. It was as far as they could go at the time. Now it's time to expand it. Many of the red states refused to accept the help out of spite. Still more work needs to be done. 

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Hey, while you're here, do you still think that we should stop all air travel?

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  On 3/10/2020 at 1:55 PM, Tiberius said:

Very easy to answer. It was as far as they could go at the time. Now it's time to expand it. Many of the red states refused to accept the help out of spite. Still more work needs to be done. 

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Hilarious! They controlled EVERY house of government and ‘that’s as far as they could go’? In other words they screwed it all up royally so they could swoop in and fix the mess they made! Just like student loans and the housing bubble. Please....we’re begging you....stop trying to help us!

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  On 3/10/2020 at 2:52 PM, SoCal Deek said:

Hilarious! They controlled EVERY house of government and ‘that’s as far as they could go’? In other words they screwed it all up royally so they could swoop in and fix the mess they made! Just like student loans and the housing bubble. Please....we’re begging you....stop trying to help us!

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It's a great success. Coverage expanded for 30 million people. You guys are so angry those people get to go see a doctor now. Get over it, move on already 

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Before Obama became president he said that single payer was going to take something like 20-25 years to get done. That we couldn't do it all at once, it had to be incremental. The camel has his nose under the tent. 

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  On 3/10/2020 at 2:54 PM, Tiberius said:

It's a great success. Coverage expanded for 30 million people. You guys are so angry those people get to go see a doctor now. Get over it, move on already 

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It’s a tremendous flop ! It made the cost of insurance skyrocket for many , all to give “ coverage” to those who were receiving care anyway. Way too much money spent to accomplish very little, a classic Democratic program. 

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  On 3/10/2020 at 3:49 PM, Boatdrinks said:

It’s a tremendous flop ! It made the cost of insurance to skyrocket for many , all to give “ coverage” to those who were receiving care anyway. Way too much money spent to accomplish very little, a classic Democratic program. 

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No, it didn't make costs increase, those were increasing anyway, more elderly, more new and expensive medicines, treatments and procedures. 

 

30 million covered, Good Job Obama! 

 

People still made that others can go see a doctor. Haters suck 

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  On 3/10/2020 at 3:51 PM, Tiberius said:

No, it didn't make costs increase, those were increasing anyway, more elderly, more new and expensive medicines, treatments and procedures. 

 

30 million covered, Good Job Obama! 

 

People still made that others can go see a doctor. Haters suck 

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We speak English here. If in doubt use your native Pig Latin and then send it through Google Translator. 

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Obamacare At 10: A Big F-ing Failure

Issues & Insights, by The Editorial Board

 

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Ten years ago this month, when President Obama Barack was signing Obamacare into law, Vice President Joe Biden said to him in a stage whisper “This is a big f***ing deal.” A decade later, Obamacare has turned out to be a big f***ing failure. And Biden is now promising to expand it.

 

Remember “you can keep your plan”? Or “family premiums will go down by $2,500”? How about the claim that Obamacare would cut the number of uninsured in half? That it would dramatically reduce the federal deficit? And that it would make the health care industry more efficient? 

 

None of it came true.

 

The very name of the law – The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – was an exercise in false advertising.

 

Affordable? Premiums in the individual market doubled in Obamacare’s first four years. The result was that millions of middle-class families found themselves priced out of the insurance market altogether. Patient protection? Those who could afford the premiums faced enormous deductibles for HMO-style plans that strictly limited which doctors they could see and hospitals they could use – unless they wanted to pay the entire costs out of pocket.

 

Those who get insurance through work didn’t see any savings, either. Where Obama promised that families would see premiums drop by $2,500,  they went up faster in the five years after Obamacare than in the five years before

 

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  On 3/11/2020 at 1:31 PM, B-Man said:

 

 

Obamacare At 10: A Big F-ing Failure

Issues & Insights, by The Editorial Board

 

Original Article

 

 

Ten years ago this month, when President Obama Barack was signing Obamacare into law, Vice President Joe Biden said to him in a stage whisper “This is a big f***ing deal.” A decade later, Obamacare has turned out to be a big f***ing failure. And Biden is now promising to expand it.

 

Remember “you can keep your plan”? Or “family premiums will go down by $2,500”? How about the claim that Obamacare would cut the number of uninsured in half? That it would dramatically reduce the federal deficit? And that it would make the health care industry more efficient? 

 

None of it came true.

 

The very name of the law – The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – was an exercise in false advertising.

 

Affordable? Premiums in the individual market doubled in Obamacare’s first four years. The result was that millions of middle-class families found themselves priced out of the insurance market altogether. Patient protection? Those who could afford the premiums faced enormous deductibles for HMO-style plans that strictly limited which doctors they could see and hospitals they could use – unless they wanted to pay the entire costs out of pocket.

 

Those who get insurance through work didn’t see any savings, either. Where Obama promised that families would see premiums drop by $2,500,  they went up faster in the five years after Obamacare than in the five years before

 

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Damn that obstructionist GOP!

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