re: Thomas Gallatin: Obama Doubled Your Healthcare Premium

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It's even more disingenuous to count those subsidies as "savings" on medical care costs. You're leaving out how subsidies are paid for by other people.

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Quit being intentionally dumb.

The point made twice now is that the full context of exchange premiums is important. What a person's out-of-pocket costs actually are pre and post-subsidy, and the total unsubsidized premium costs. Ignoring one or the other easily lends itself misinformation without prior knowledge.

My point even earlier has been that the ACA did very little to address ever increasing prices in the system. It attempted to change the way Medicare reimburses people. Put more emphasis on qualitative measures. But it has not been nearly enough to make a big dent. The AHCA does nothing to improve this though.