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re: Tell us how the Affordable Care Act has impacted your life
Posted on 2/16/17 at 11:23 am to Jbird
Posted on 2/16/17 at 11:23 am to Jbird
No changes in coverage, higher premium - now required to participate in "wellness" programs to avoid even higher premium.
Up until November of last year I thought the ACA was bad, very, very bad.
I now realize that it played a great role in our desire to
Make
America
Great
Again
Thanks Obama.
Up until November of last year I thought the ACA was bad, very, very bad.
I now realize that it played a great role in our desire to
Make
America
Great
Again
Thanks Obama.
Posted on 2/16/17 at 11:26 am to Jbird
Higher premiums, MUCH higher deductibles.
Less ability to use it.
But then again my wife and I both work to help pay for the deadbeats. It's supposed to be worse for us.
Less ability to use it.
But then again my wife and I both work to help pay for the deadbeats. It's supposed to be worse for us.
Posted on 2/16/17 at 11:36 am to Jbird
The Affordable Care Act was nothing more than a huge transference of wealth. It is amazing that a benefit which was previously provided by employers on a voluntary basis has now been placed under governmental control, forcing certain employers to provide the benefits or be fined, while telling them how the benefits are to be paid, how much they must pay, what is covered and deciding which of their employees lifestyles are to be subsidized by other employees.
In addition we were also being forced to subsidize health insurers through reimbursement corridors and subsidies when they were required to discard actuarial prognostications to assume any all risks with the knowledge that if their profits dropped accordingly the taxpayers would make up the difference. Now the courts have finally reigned in this assault on our constitution by this administration by ruling these subsidies can only be paid when authorized by Congress. Congress has refused to allocate the funding and the carriers have elected to abandon this sinking vessel.
Yes, the " uninsured rate " may have dropped . Much of this is due to the mandate to purchase ( the first time in the history of this country the populace is forced to purchase a product just for existing) and those who would have been eligible for Medicaid even without the Affordable Care Act. Yet, the new insureds really are no better off as they must absorb large deductibles and co-payments to access their coverage. This is prohibitive for many. When the Democrats were passing the ACA we were told, depending on the audience that there were 30,000,000 to 50,000,000 uninsured people in the country who would benefit from passing the ACA. Lets split it and call it 40 million uninsured. If those numbers were true then there should have been a stampede to sign up for coverage last year and this year.
The Health and Human Services claims the number of signups this year is 9.4 million Remember, though we were not told the truth about 2015 signups and it was eventually uncovered and finally admitted by the administration that they had lied and the number of signups was actually 6.3 million and not the 8.7 million they touted until they were exposed. There was no confirmation of how many of the current 9.1 million were previously insured and lost their coverage due to the ACA. In reality there may have been only 5 million newly insured. The total insured may be well below 8 million by the end of the year.
My premiums have increased 64% since 2013 with higher deductibles and co-payments while I am also forced to subsidize the insurance of others. The president claimed premiums would be reduced $2,500 per family by the Affordable Care Act. The president knew this was not true and deliberately lied to the American people to push for the passage of the act.
The Democrats can be proud of themselves. They gave Obama his signature accomplishment and now the Democrats own it. It has already cost them the Congress and it was a significant factor in costing them the Presidency.
It would have been better for Congress to have allocated an assigned risk pool of funds to assist those who were shut out of the standard insurance markets by pre-existing conditions instead of this giant exercise in absurdity and lunacy. The Democrats had to resort to unconstitutional deception and bribery of reluctant Congresspersons from Nebraska, Louisiana and Michigan to get the law passed. We were lied to again and again and again by this administration.
Jonathan Gruber, one of the plan's major architects confirmed the level of deceit by the Democrats. Hard working tax paying citizens are being forced to subsidize health care for others, meanwhile many have lost their own coverage and are being forced to purchase insurance with higher premiums and higher deductibles and copayments. Despite Obama's claim it would reduce premiums an average of $2,500.00 per family this year's true numbers of participants will continue to drop, primarily due to the cost. A recent report stated more and more Obamacare recipients cancelled their policies even after being afforded great leniency by the very liberal rules set by this administration.
So we had to totally disrupt health coverage that many were happy with, had to endure a total revision of the healthcare system all for less than 3% of the population of this country. This continues to prove how incompetent this administration is and so ill prepared to govern. This is yet another example of how liberals operate. They will take what they can get at first. Then having gotten their foot in the door they return to press for the rest at a later date in the guise of fairness. Then anyone who objects is waging a war on those beneficiaries, a meme which their media minions is always willing to trumpet. Look no further than this current push for single payer option and the recent movement in California to cover illegal immigrants.
The Democrat Congress and President Obama passed a defective bill and will continue to pay the price for it. The Democrat Congress had to assure Obama got his signature accomplishment. You Democrats now own it lock, stock and barrel.
In addition we were also being forced to subsidize health insurers through reimbursement corridors and subsidies when they were required to discard actuarial prognostications to assume any all risks with the knowledge that if their profits dropped accordingly the taxpayers would make up the difference. Now the courts have finally reigned in this assault on our constitution by this administration by ruling these subsidies can only be paid when authorized by Congress. Congress has refused to allocate the funding and the carriers have elected to abandon this sinking vessel.
Yes, the " uninsured rate " may have dropped . Much of this is due to the mandate to purchase ( the first time in the history of this country the populace is forced to purchase a product just for existing) and those who would have been eligible for Medicaid even without the Affordable Care Act. Yet, the new insureds really are no better off as they must absorb large deductibles and co-payments to access their coverage. This is prohibitive for many. When the Democrats were passing the ACA we were told, depending on the audience that there were 30,000,000 to 50,000,000 uninsured people in the country who would benefit from passing the ACA. Lets split it and call it 40 million uninsured. If those numbers were true then there should have been a stampede to sign up for coverage last year and this year.
The Health and Human Services claims the number of signups this year is 9.4 million Remember, though we were not told the truth about 2015 signups and it was eventually uncovered and finally admitted by the administration that they had lied and the number of signups was actually 6.3 million and not the 8.7 million they touted until they were exposed. There was no confirmation of how many of the current 9.1 million were previously insured and lost their coverage due to the ACA. In reality there may have been only 5 million newly insured. The total insured may be well below 8 million by the end of the year.
My premiums have increased 64% since 2013 with higher deductibles and co-payments while I am also forced to subsidize the insurance of others. The president claimed premiums would be reduced $2,500 per family by the Affordable Care Act. The president knew this was not true and deliberately lied to the American people to push for the passage of the act.
The Democrats can be proud of themselves. They gave Obama his signature accomplishment and now the Democrats own it. It has already cost them the Congress and it was a significant factor in costing them the Presidency.
It would have been better for Congress to have allocated an assigned risk pool of funds to assist those who were shut out of the standard insurance markets by pre-existing conditions instead of this giant exercise in absurdity and lunacy. The Democrats had to resort to unconstitutional deception and bribery of reluctant Congresspersons from Nebraska, Louisiana and Michigan to get the law passed. We were lied to again and again and again by this administration.
Jonathan Gruber, one of the plan's major architects confirmed the level of deceit by the Democrats. Hard working tax paying citizens are being forced to subsidize health care for others, meanwhile many have lost their own coverage and are being forced to purchase insurance with higher premiums and higher deductibles and copayments. Despite Obama's claim it would reduce premiums an average of $2,500.00 per family this year's true numbers of participants will continue to drop, primarily due to the cost. A recent report stated more and more Obamacare recipients cancelled their policies even after being afforded great leniency by the very liberal rules set by this administration.
So we had to totally disrupt health coverage that many were happy with, had to endure a total revision of the healthcare system all for less than 3% of the population of this country. This continues to prove how incompetent this administration is and so ill prepared to govern. This is yet another example of how liberals operate. They will take what they can get at first. Then having gotten their foot in the door they return to press for the rest at a later date in the guise of fairness. Then anyone who objects is waging a war on those beneficiaries, a meme which their media minions is always willing to trumpet. Look no further than this current push for single payer option and the recent movement in California to cover illegal immigrants.
The Democrat Congress and President Obama passed a defective bill and will continue to pay the price for it. The Democrat Congress had to assure Obama got his signature accomplishment. You Democrats now own it lock, stock and barrel.
Posted on 2/16/17 at 11:37 am to Jbird
I'm in healthcare. Our average census is down 50% and our staff has also roughly been cut in half since the implementation of Obamacare. My pay is down around 25% the last few years compared to what it was in the years before Obamacare.
Posted on 2/16/17 at 11:38 am to Jbird
Because of lowered reimbursements, our office stopped offering 401K.
Posted on 2/16/17 at 11:39 am to Jbird
Higher premium
Higher deductibles
Have to fight its insurance company more over some services and drugs once covered.
Dr I had no longer accepts our carrier.
Company has also sucked up a lot of he increases but with the caveat that higher costs to come for all.
My brothers premiums doubled and deuctible tripled.
It's a mess of a law and anyone who claims it gave 20 million insurance can kiss my arse. They never mention the 30 million still with none.
Higher deductibles
Have to fight its insurance company more over some services and drugs once covered.
Dr I had no longer accepts our carrier.
Company has also sucked up a lot of he increases but with the caveat that higher costs to come for all.
My brothers premiums doubled and deuctible tripled.
It's a mess of a law and anyone who claims it gave 20 million insurance can kiss my arse. They never mention the 30 million still with none.
Posted on 2/16/17 at 11:41 am to Jbird
Vox is such a propagandist rag I am shocked they even allowed this to be seen.
Posted on 2/16/17 at 11:42 am to Jbird
Deductible and Premiums both went up. Range of services previously covered went up in terms of co-pays.
Posted on 2/16/17 at 11:44 am to Jbird
My Restasis eye drops are no longer covered under insurance because the insurance companies are trying to find any way to cut costs. My eyes hurt almost 100% of the time, and I can't afford the only medication that works, and that I was on for years before ACA. I don't want to get plugs put in, but that may be the only choice.
ETA: If I hadn't gotten gap coverage to cover high deductibles, my family couldn't afford to go to the doctor ever.
ETA2: The prescription costs $425, after discount, and doesn't count toward my deductible.
ETA: If I hadn't gotten gap coverage to cover high deductibles, my family couldn't afford to go to the doctor ever.
ETA2: The prescription costs $425, after discount, and doesn't count toward my deductible.
This post was edited on 2/16/17 at 6:42 pm
Posted on 2/16/17 at 11:53 am to Jbird
Would have gone up $2400 a year for covering me and my daughter. Thank God my work went to a group plan.
Posted on 2/16/17 at 11:57 am to imjustafatkid
Our store had to cut the 65 employees down to under 50 to 49. Too low, very hard on the remaining 49 physically. Also,after going to 49 employees, we got a threatening letter saying we would be fined $20,000.00 if we didn't take out Obamacare. The Federal Gov't bureaucrat that came in to talk to us was an anti-business ultra liberal smart-arse that was very threatening with the fine in 30 days if we didn't take out the Obamacare against our wishes. We delayed to see if Trump could win, and repeal and replace it. We'll see what happens.
Posted on 2/16/17 at 12:01 pm to Jbird
It has deeply challenged my understanding of the word,
'Affordable'
'Affordable'
Posted on 2/16/17 at 12:02 pm to Loserman
quote:
If you don't use it you lose the money.
That is flat wrong. You might be thinking of a Flexible Spending Account, which is money set aside solely by your employer fo ryour use during a defined period.
You own your HSA and can't lose that money. If I don't use it on medical expenses, I will get taxed on it, but it's tax free money right now anyway.
Posted on 2/16/17 at 12:03 pm to Loserman
quote:
If you don't use it you lose the money.
Absolutely false.
It's an HSA, not an FSA.
Health Savings Accounts (HSA's) are with you for life. You take them with you when you leave your job. The money in it is yours forever. Hell, some HSA's will even have it setup to where you can invest those funds into the market.
ETA: FalseProphet beat me to it by a minute
This post was edited on 2/16/17 at 12:04 pm
Posted on 2/16/17 at 12:04 pm to Jbird
I work in healthcare and I can't express what it's like to see patients who have never been able to afford healthcare before and now they can. Most of them come in with a laundry list of problems that they could never afford to have treated and the relief they get just from knowing someone is caring for them for the first time still chokes me up. My premiums have gone up slightly but overall my coverage is better and it's 100% worth it for the millions of Americans who are no longer being neglected. I've had several children ask me if trump winning the election means their parents will lose their medicine. I have to tell them that I don't know.
Posted on 2/16/17 at 12:09 pm to Grim
Since when did Correct the Record start dappling in the healthcare industry?
Posted on 2/16/17 at 12:19 pm to Zach
quote:
Our yearly premium went up 3K. With no additional coverage.
Bernie said that premiums were going up faster before the ACA. I think insurance companies have slowed premium increases in favor of higher deductibles.
I remember when things like prescriptions and routine visits weren't included in the deductible. The deductible was for things like diagnostic testing, hospital stays, and specialists. Not anymore. My prescription benefit doesn't kick in until I meet my $7K family deductible.
Posted on 2/16/17 at 12:22 pm to sms151t
Its because Obama was in bed with big pharma, plane and simple. Its a grift, a massive one at that.
Posted on 2/16/17 at 12:22 pm to Grim
quote:Interesting, you work in healthcare you say.
Most of them come in with a laundry list of problems that they could never afford to have treated
So every patient that comes in is a happy camper huh?
Posted on 2/16/17 at 12:24 pm to Jbird
Was a big factor in me not having to put up with Hillary as President for at least 4 years.
So, there's that.
So, there's that.
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