Lafiel said:
the number that has been tossed around is 20-30million people |
Misleading number. Many of those could have had insurance before the ACA.
But if the OP is real and not a fake posting, what's wrong with that?
I know people that their premiums quadrupled since Obamacare(ACA) became into law. They are now on the ACA, because their insurance went out of business. They are paying roughly $30,000 a year for health insurance now.
Just this last October, they were all taking about how they had to go onto the site at like midnight to sign up as quick as they could for the ACA to make sure they got the insurance. And they were going from paying roughly 800 a month to 2300 a month. This all happened around October of this last year as I said. You can bet that was a huge factor in their voting.
These were people that have to buy their own insurance, not get it from work. People like Farmers, or people not yet 65 but working part time, thus can't get medicare yet. You might have seen a commercial on TV even of some farming family that basically said this. I actuall know them. They live really close to where I grew up and are friends with my parents. But this would be "rural" americans, so we are all hicks and morons and should be ignored though right?
As for my own experience. I've been at two different jobs since the ACA was put into law. Both of those jobs at some point raised the amount we have to pay for our insurance twice while I was at both place. The first time they raised the price, they had a whole memo accompanying it saying how it was their first raise in 15 years. I've heard the same from many of my other friends. I left one job before finding out what they were planning to do this year 2017. Cause in 2016, the premiums for the insurance everyone had went up super high, so they were talking about needing to look for a different plan. They had been using teh same great "cadilac" plan since forever and never even bothered shopping around before. But prices went up so high that they could not afford to cover that much for employees that they were going to look for something new. So because of the ACA, that businesses employees will be getting worse insurance.
So when I hear all these stats from the politicians saying stuff like average premiums rising every year by less now than before, call me skeptical. Not one person I know that had insurance before the ACA is happy with their insurance prices now.
They want the ACA gone/fixed/whatever.
Will Trump and the republicans make it better? Who knows. But from what I've seen, it was only going to continue to get worse with democrats. I can't see the republicans screwing it up any more than it already is.
