Not only is it anti economic growth, but evidently anti consumer too. Hell, may turn out anti health care after all is said and done......
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/obamacare-bait-switch-left-consumers-111500617.html
The nine most dreadful words in the English language are, We’re from the government, and we’re here to help. The Affordable Care Act has proven this time and again since the very beginning. Every promise made to promote this program has turned out to be a lie. Politifact declared Barack Obama’s pledge, “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan” to be the Lie of the Year for 2013.
The president’s parallel promise, “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor” turned out to be equally untrue for millions of Obamacare exchange consumers who found access to providers so limited that they had no option to return to their previous clinics. Ditto for Obama’s assurance that the average family of four would pay $2,500 less per year in premiums.
Now, as The New York Times reported this weekend, even the words “affordable” and “care” have turned out to be untrue as well. The sharp rise in premiums has garnered the most headlines in the first three open-enrollment seasons of Obamacare, but equally if not more pernicious has been the increase in deductibles. As Eric Pianin explained for The Fiscal Times on Monday, deductibles have increased an average of 11 percent on Bronze level plans for 2016, intended to be the most affordable of all options, and now average over $5700. For Silver level, deductibles rose 6 percent and now average over $3100.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/obamacare-bait-switch-left-consumers-111500617.html
The nine most dreadful words in the English language are, We’re from the government, and we’re here to help. The Affordable Care Act has proven this time and again since the very beginning. Every promise made to promote this program has turned out to be a lie. Politifact declared Barack Obama’s pledge, “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan” to be the Lie of the Year for 2013.
The president’s parallel promise, “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor” turned out to be equally untrue for millions of Obamacare exchange consumers who found access to providers so limited that they had no option to return to their previous clinics. Ditto for Obama’s assurance that the average family of four would pay $2,500 less per year in premiums.
Now, as The New York Times reported this weekend, even the words “affordable” and “care” have turned out to be untrue as well. The sharp rise in premiums has garnered the most headlines in the first three open-enrollment seasons of Obamacare, but equally if not more pernicious has been the increase in deductibles. As Eric Pianin explained for The Fiscal Times on Monday, deductibles have increased an average of 11 percent on Bronze level plans for 2016, intended to be the most affordable of all options, and now average over $5700. For Silver level, deductibles rose 6 percent and now average over $3100.
