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Originally Posted by kane
The reason for that price increase is two-fold. One, as you mentioned, Obamacare does nothing to actually lower the prices of drugs and actual healthcare. Two, there are now 20 million people who have health insurance that didn't have it before Obamacare. However, they grossly underestimated how much those people would use it. There was a reason those people didn't have health insurance before. They either have pre-existing conditions and were denied coverage or they were offered coverage but too poor to be able to afford it. Now they have it and they are using it. Those who make too much to get much government help for the cost are the ones that are shouldering the brunt of that with much higher premiums.
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yea, that's exactly the problem, which I think will be very difficult to solve... any solution no matter what happens, will have to involve subsidizing others, and given that healthcare is already expensive as is, if you have to subsidize others on top of it, it becomes unworkable...
insurance companies are losing $$ and quitting the markets, customers are getting frustrated and discontinuing their insurance (like Bladewire), etc... the whole thing simply doesn't work...
so really the only easy fix is for government to throw some $$ at it, which I hope they don't, as that isn't going to solve anything at all, it will just continue the charade that ObamaCare is a success...
instead maybe they can work the "lets work on lowering costs" angle, that's really the only hope of making healthcare in the US work for everyone, that was what ObamaCare was supposed to be to begin with, but I doubt that will be doable before ObamaCare collapses...