Someone help me understand

you won't get many answers from the trumpkins they just follow blindly

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But the GOP only look at the time from when Obamacare was implemented/passed saying "look at the cost rising during obamacare", completely ignoring the trend line of costs prior to the ACA.

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my premiums have gone up 500% since 2010

do you honestly believe that they'd be up 500% had the ACA never been passed?

No confusion crackhead, Obamacare was built on a complete and utter lie. Obama said, prems would go down, we would save 2500 dollars a year and almost everyone would be covered, none of that happened, it was a lie from the get go....Also, the GOPe has even told a bigger lie, they should all be voted out, IMO... I can deal with the dems lying, that is what they do, GOPe are even worse...

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Don't believe you.

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it's actually more. they were sub $100/mo and are now over $500/mo

that's ignoring the insane deductible increase

i once posted my plan and bill to prove i wasn't lying, because people have said i was lying for almost 10 year now

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8905-ehbs-2016-cover-thumbnailThis annual survey of employers provides a detailed look at trends in employer-sponsored health coverage

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does not apply to me

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The MEPS Insurance Component fields questionnaires to private and public sector employers

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does not apply to me

Besides adding some good conditions such as pre-existing conditions, etc., the who plan was to get all the low income folks on healthcare paid for by middle class and healthy young folks. But it didn't work..

You might be telling the 100% truth...but it still wouldn't make any of what I said less true. Individual examples, like yours, would be a terrible way to devise public policy.

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Herein lies your confusion. It didn't. It slowed the rise in costs of medical care.

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Oops. You screwed up. Most people defending Obamacare are careful to mention that it is the rise in premium costs that are slowing down. That way, they can ignore the new trend towards $10K deductibles and things like prescription drugs counting towards your deductible, when they used to be covered from day 1.

Look at articles claiming that Obamacare has slowed down costs. They all mention "premium" costs, not health care costs. That's because health care costs are not slowing down, if you factor in the out-of-pocket costs. But I think you probably already knew that.

In addition, another reason many people are saving money on healthcare is because of the subsidies. It's not that their health insurance costs less, it's because the taxpayers are subsidizing those costs.

Furthermore, you can find articles saying that the total ACA costs are less than predicted. But if you look at the costs closely, the cost line is still bending upward - meaning that total costs of healthcare (which includes out-of-pocket expenses) is still increasing at a faster rate than they were before the ACA was implemented. If I predict that healthcare costs are going to increase by $5T dollars in the next 5 years, and they only increase by $4T, I can't say we saved one trillion dollars. We're still spending $4T more than we did 5 years ago.

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bro, just stop

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Stop what? I'm saying your individual situation (which seems to be contradictory to all the other data) is essentially irrelevant to the OP's post. You continuing to make an example about yourself is why I keep responding.

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and arguing that our federal government should take over 1/6 of our economy to deal with about 5% of he population falls into the same issue

*ETA: especially when most of those who "gained insurance" just got on Medicaid

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Don't know where you are getting that 5% number. Pretty sure pre-existing coverage alone touches a majority of Americans.

Discussing something that makes up close to 20% of our economy is not the same as discussing an individual example.

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Individual examples, like yours, would be a terrible way to devise public policy.

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You mean the policy that was initially passed by little more effort than trotting out 5-6 outlier hardluck stories before the American public to appeal to their emotions to "get something done"?