re: Graham-Cassidy: How will it help lower my health insurance costs that Obama drove up 400%?

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I thought most insurers were pulling out of Obamacare?

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49% have employer based insurance, 35% get Medicaid/Medicare, 9% are uninsured, 7% get insurance via the "individual market"(why the Obamacare exchanges were created). The individual market is where you go if can't get employer based insurance or don't qualify for Medicare/Medicaid.

The individual market is what is imploding. Too many sick/elderly in the pool. Not enough young buying in. Insurers are losing money here and pulling out. They can't charge enough to make a profit. Premiums , if you don't get a subsidy, are out of control. This is where the 300-400% increases since 2014 have occurred.

Here let the rising star of the Dem Party explain it to you.

It means that insurance companies can go back to charging seniors an age tax, and charging more to anyone who has a pre-existing condition.
It means gutting Medicaid, which will affect the benefits for millions – people with disabilities, seniors & sick children.
And, it means defunding Planned Parenthood.
All that means we’ve got to stop this thing.

— Kamala Harris (@SenKamalaHarris) September 19, 2017

All I know it that Schumer is saying the bill is full of "meaness" and that a parent with a child who gets cancer or one that needs treatment for opiod addiction will have to tell them, 'Sorry, little Suzie' or 'Sorry Bobby...Bobby?' or that we should all wait for the CBO score.

And the kicker he offers is that if this goes through, no more bipartisanship.

All that sounds to me like so much substance avoiding horse shite...