dkf (31,632 posts)
The promised savings of $2500 per family in the ACA aren't supposed to happen til 2019.
Rising Health Costs Undermine Obama's Pledge
Last year, I asked White House deputy chief of staff Nancy-Ann DeParle about that $2,500 in savings the president pledged. She insisted families will see that savings seven years after the president said it would be achieved - by 2019.
"Many of the changes in the Affordable Care Act are starting this year, and in succeeding years," DeParle told ABC News, "and by 2019 we estimate that the average family will save around $2,000."
DeParle said that the "big increases that occurred (in 2010) were probably driven by insurance plans overestimating what the impact would be and maybe trying to take some profits upfront before some of the changes in the Affordable Care Act occur."
Administration officials say they never claimed health care costs would go down, only that they would grow at a slower rate than they would have without the Affordable Care Act.
http://abcnews.go.com/m/blogEntry?id=17321046
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022556033You have got to be shitting me. Now they have the nerve to sit here and claim that all the times they swore up and down that 0bamcare was going to make our premiums fall, that they really meant that our premiums won't go up quite as much as they would without 0bamacare.
Purveyor (12,142 posts)
1. I'm starting to have a 'bad feeling' about this whole thing, indeed. eom
You are just now figuring this out? You goons tell us how intelligent you are and how advanced your knowledge is compared to us knuckle dragging freepers, yet we told you fools 4 freaking years ago this was a bad deal. When we warned you, all did was accuse us of hating the black preezy.
1StrongBlackMan (4,921 posts)
2. I'm not ...
I got a rebate check from my employer because our insurer didn't meet the med-loss ratio ... I, personally, know several people that have benefitted from the features in effect today, from being able to insure a previously uninsurable spouse (due to a pre-existing condition) to a friend that can continue medical treatments after having been told by her insurer that she was uncovered because she had hit her "life-time limit."
So ... where some focus on what might not be; I choose to see, and be thankful for, what is.
So because you got a few crumbs from the table you think that you are having a feast fit for a king.
ProSense (95,750 posts)
5. So
you decided to dig up a 2012 blog post by Jake Tapper to try to continue the fear mongering around the health care law?
DeParle said that the "big increases that occurred (in 2010) were probably driven by insurance plans overestimating what the impact would be and maybe trying to take some profits upfront before some of the changes in the Affordable Care Act occur."
Administration officials say they never claimed health care costs would go down, only that they would grow at a slower rate than they would have without the Affordable Care Act.
That is exactly correct. The only people making bullshit claims are the insurance companies.
Sec. Kathleen Sebelius
Holding Insurance Companies Accountable for High Premium Increases
The Affordable Care Act prohibits some of the worst insurance industry practices that have kept affordable health coverage out of reach for millions of Americans. It provides families and individuals with new protections against discriminatory rates due to pre-existing conditions, holds insurance companies accountable for how they spend your premium dollars, and prevents insurance companies from raising your insurance premium rates without accountability or transparency.
For more than a decade before the Affordable Care Act health insurance premiums had risen rapidly, straining the pocketbooks of American families and businesses. Oftentimes, insurance companies were able to raise rates without explanation to consumers or public justification of their actions.
The Affordable Care Act brought an unprecedented level of scrutiny and transparency to health insurance rate increases by requiring insurance companies in every state to publicly justify their actions if they want to raise rates by 10% or more. Insurance companies are required to provide easy to understand information to their customers about their reasons for significant rate increases, and any unreasonable rate increases are posted online.
And it's working.
A new report released today shows that the health care law is helping to moderate premium hikes. Since this rule was implemented, the number of requests for insurance premium increases of 10% or more has dropped dramatically, from 75% to 14%. The average premium increase for all rates in 2012 was 30% below what it was in 2010. And available data suggest that this slowdown in rate increases has continued into 2013.
- more -
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sec-kathleen-sebelius/holding-insurance-compani_b_2742501.html
Rules finalized for the good stuff in Obamacare
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022415967
Obama Posts: Health Care Anniversary Is A BFD
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2556079
From the post you linked to:
UPDATE: An earlier version of this story failed to credit John Merline of Investor's Business Daily with the computations cited above. ABC News apologizes and regrets the error.
Imagine Jake Tapper using a wingnut site as a source.
Obama's Re-Election Case Rests On 5 Phony Claims
http://news.investors.com/100312-627990-presidents-case-for-re-election-rests-on-five-claims-all-phony.aspx
Well gee since you put it that way, it still ****ing sucks and you idiots are going to be whining and crying and wondering what went wrong.
We were lied to and you idiots will swallow every new lie that they tell you not even recalling what they told you last week.
