re: Obamacare failure

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You are comparing your health insurance premium almost 20 years ago to today? Wow. The rate of increase before 2010 was already high.

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The failure of Obamacare is slapping you in the face and you sit here pretending it isn’t.

It was not “fine” before Obamacare. That’s why the issue had traction.

Insurance premiums for those whose employer didn’t provide healthcare were too often out of reach. Too many people had insufficient insurance, and that had a negative effect on the overall economy.

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Yes, and the Republicans screamed and hollered for 7-8 years that they would fix or repeal Obamacare

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Yes - and then came John McCain.

Got a better plan? I agree it’s not great at all. What’s stopping the current admin to come up with something?

He’s also pretending you’re getting the same coverage.

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It was not “fine” before Obamacare. That’s why the issue had traction.

Insurance premiums for those whose employer didn’t provide healthcare were too often out of reach. Too many people had insufficient insurance, and that had a negative effect on the overall economy

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So the answer to this illusionary issue was to pass a bill, that was written by the industry it pertained to, that forced all Americans to buy a product from the entities that wrote the bill?

Great job for freedom there buddy. Take that victory lap.

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Within a month of the Sebelius decision, he stopped taking all insurance and went to a subscription based "boutique" practice.

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I thought this was illegal. I wondered for a long time why more doctors didn't do this, then with research I found examples of doctors trying it, and it was deemed illegal. If i remember correctly, they were basically told they were running a defacto insurance plan and they couldn't do that. Doesnt make sense to me, but that's what I seem to remember.

Doctors were basically charging a flat monthly rate in order to be his patient. And he'd do anything his practice was capable of doing with no additional charge to the patient. If you needed medicine, or had to be sent to a specialist or something, then you'd use your actual insurance plan.

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This is a lie. We had high deductible.catastrophic policies tailored to our needs, which is something we cannot get with the ACA.

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Very high deductible catastrophic only plans were very cheap even here in high priced NY. After Obamacare, if you had a household income of more than $46k, you could get what used to be a virtually catastrophic care only plan called a Bronze plan for only 4 or 5 times the cost. It did give you one "free" yearly check-up, but that about the only difference.