Did insurance premiums really increase because of Obamacare? I am continuing to write my essay on Universal healthcare, showing both the pros and cons, but I haven't been able to find any evidence Obamacare actually increased premiums, all I can find are conservative media outlets saying so. Trump often claimed Obamacare caused insurance prices to rise, and even some to lose their insurance, but I'm have trouble finding any evidence of that. Does anyone know anymore about this, or have any links to credible sites showing evidence of it?
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I can say my employers' insurance plans have gone up a lot since Obama care enactment.
Of course, they had already been going up up up for a long time. That was the lion's share of the the problem Obamacare was supposed to solve. The other part was the preexisting condition aspect.
Obamacare simply forces taxpaying citizens to subsidize the health insurance of people who were deemed "uninsurable" by the medical industry. This was accomplished by further empowering Big Medical to fuck everyone else over. Nothing was done to stop the problems in healthcare/pharma/insurance that caused the prices to spiral up for decades.
So, even if it is difficult to find data to show that prices went up at a higher annual rate than they already were - it is an undeniable fact that prices did not go down at all.
Exactly. At best it failed at what the people wanted it to do, and yet people still defend it. I say failed at what the people wanted because I suspect in terms of shifting funny money around and providing some gibs to blue state degenerates it succeeded. Legislation is like war: what they tell you it's for is usually bullshit, but if you follow the money you can often figure out what the real motives were.