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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Take a single independent hmo plan from 2004 and compare it to a single independent hmo plan today. Premiums skyrocketed, coverages shrunk, and costs increased. Obamacare made it near impossible for non corporate healthcare and criminalized not buying healthcare. This was intentional on two fronts to make more enforced red tape costs on small businesses and to make more people who would pay for their own healthcare take corporate jobs. That’s why “benefits” became the big talking point for media selling crappy soul sucking jobs. This same model is also currently being used to monopolize hospitals, government forces hospitals to spend stupid amounts of money on administration and updating to regulations so the only answer is to mass conglomerate hospitals to cover initial overhead. This is all a house of cards made by politicians who couldn’t give a flying fuck on how it impacts citizens because they get promised a corporate parachute on the way out.