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Originally Posted by jms62
Then don't get old so you don't need to visit specialists. Really that simple Rupe. I really want to pay $125 that I paid when I was 25 years old but that doesn't seem in the cards. At least now your Health Care Provider won't boot you to the curb when you actually need them to start paying which may be sooner than later for you Rupe. So your rates started going up 5-6 years ago in 2008? You need to break out your calculator Rupe that was 7 years ago and while you have your calculator out you need to Google the ACA timeline and who was president in 2008. ACA was the fall guy for Healthcare CEO's making boatloads of money. This chart and the timeline clearly shows who the WINNERS are and include those politicians from BOTH parties whom they donated to in order to keep up this false war on ACA to keep those too lazy or not bright enough to see through the charade.
http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=U...22linear%22%7D |
I'm not claiming that the system was great before. For a while my rates were getting raised by 15-20% a year well before Obamacare. That should be illegal for them to raise a person's rates that dramatically. I was foolish at the time not to do my homework. I actually paid $520 a month for that final year of my old policy before finally calling Anthem and asking if they had something cheaper. The reason I didn't call them sooner was because I had always heard that Anthem's prices were very competitive and very reasonable and I just assumed that $520 a month was the going rate at the time. I was actually shocked when I found out I could get a policy with them for $210 a month.
Anyway, my whole point is not that the system was great before. My point was simply that that Obama totally mislead people about what was going to happen under ACA. He never said that rates would go way up in many states and that many people would not only not get to keep their doctors, they would also have to get new plans. I finally had a plan that I was happy with, that was only $210 a month and almost all my doctors were taking it. Now I have a plan that is $367 a month that none of my doctors take.
I'm not claiming that ACA is bad for everyone. It is actually very good for some people and there are certain things that I like about it. But I think it was totally wrong the way we were lied to about it. Obama should have told us the good and the bad and then let people decide whether they would support it or not. It would have never passed had he been totally honest about it.
As I said before, I don't think the old system was great. I think reform was needed. But I think the ACA went way too far and has had very negative consequences for a lot of people. It has obviously helped some people too.