re: My employer sponsored health insurance went up 33%

Prior to the Affordable Care Act my Blue Cross Blue Shield(PMD) Family coverage was $652 a month.

I now pay $1428 a month.

Affordable Care Act my arse!

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Good, then can you please examine the chart I provided ITT, and give us a brief explanation of what it's indicating?

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It explains how government regulations made healthcare so expensive.
Predictably, Obamacare significantly furthered the premise.

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tia

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You're welcome.

Anything else?

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Neither side seems willing to work on meaningful legislation to help the average person. They'd rather pander to their extreme bases.

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Bingo. Anyone who thinks the President or any more than maybe 10 members of the Legislative Branch in DC are fighting for American taxpayers is a damn brainwashed idiot.

Trump doesn’t really care. Nor does Biden, or Paul Ryan, or Pelosi, or Clay Higgins. They don’t. They’re laughing at you.

mine stayed about the same however they raised the deductible, max out of pocket and lowered the amount of coverage so from the year before Obamacare i've gone from 90% with $25.00 copay for office visit and $10.00 prescription copay to 75% covered after deductible is met for both, which went from $800.00 family to $2750.00 and my max out of pocket went from $2500.00 to $13500.00 and for this my premiums went from $25.00 to $118.00 per week and I dropped my ex who was covered under the $25.00 but would cost an extra $96.00 now.

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Companies should be able to have their employees buy into medicare or medicaid if they'd like.

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...We are all already contributing to the care of Medicare / Medicaid recipients as the providers are paid a reduced rate for these patients - so yeah, we are subsidizing them.

If providers were paid these rates for all patients many hospitals and providers would be driven out of business. Then comes the rationing. Medicare for all is Medicare for none.

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only way to fix it is to cut insurance companies out of the loop. Direct patient to provider drives healthcare costs down. 

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true but eliminates 800,000 jobs.

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You idiots blaming Obama don't have a clue. It's not the ACA that has driven costs of healthcare up faster than inflation, it was Title XIX of the Social Security Act, added in 1965, and otherwise known as MEDICAID, that did it.

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So yet another democrat policy that doesn’t work? Cool.

Lmao, what?
So the affordable care act (forcing others to pay more so as to pay for those who can’t themselves) is capitalism?

How big is the group on your employer plan? Small group with one or two people who get sick or have major medical expenses can end up screwing the rest of the group’s rate. Had it happen at my first job out of high school. Small company with maybe 10-12 employees on the health plan and one guy ended up with cancer and another employee’s spouse on the plan had a heart attack. My premium as a healthy college aged guy tripled in 2-3 years and I eventually dropped off the company plan due to cost.

And you can also thank the leeches of society who have no insurance and run to the ER for every ache or minor illness so they can see a doc and get some free meds that probably would’ve been OTC anyway since hospital cant turn them away