Why is it that you ignorant lib-retarded morons cannot see that taxes paid for subsidies IS an INCREASE in health insurance costs for every tax paying citizen, CBJ7?
Originally Posted by I B Hankering
Because it isn't necessarily. "What does it matter?" if individual rates rise if we don't address the existential threat of overall healthcare spending to our country? Basically, the theory is that if a whole lot more people are covered and hospitals, doctors, counties and cities don't have to cover nearly as many uninsured, then overall costs will go down (or at least not increase as fast as GDP and inflation) and we will have better health and not spend as much. This is true for almost every other industrialized nation and the ones that pay the most only spend about half what we spend overall for healthcare.
How come you con-tards cannot seem to get that through your thick skulls and into your tiny brains?
Oh, yeah, the main promise was that passing PPACA would lower the increase of healthcare costs overall and it (not it alone, but in conjunction with other factors including simple focus on healthcare costs) seems to have worked since healthcare costs have increased at a far lower rate the last couple of years than they have in 40 years. I've been in the benefits committees of several companies and we routinely saw 10% to 15% increases every year. Overall healthcare costs have increased between 1% and 2% the last couple of years. The most recent news is that mortality is down in Massachusetts which implemented in Romney Care in 2006 and has a coverage rate somewhere in the high 90%. Lower mortality also means savings.
There has been a recent rise again in the last quarter so rather than trying to "fix" the PPACA which is working we need Republican lawmakers to join with others and "improve" our healthcare laws so that we can address the existential threat of out of control healthcare costs overall.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/19/bu...ease.html?_r=0
At least Obama tried something. The first President in 100 years to actually get a law through. Now it is time for "continuous improvement' to take over so that we can address the overall problem and threat first.