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What rock do you live under? Democrats are the only ones fighting for affordable healthcare.
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Can you tell me what part of the Affordable Care Act was actually affordable? it priced me right out of the market and it's expected to go even higher this year
Obamacare: What's going right with insurers and premiums. What's going wrong. - May. 12, 2017
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CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, for example, wants to raise premiums by 52% in Maryland, 35% in Virginia, and 29% in Washington, D.C. In Virginia, Cigna (CI) wants to raise rates by an average of 45%, while HealthKeepers, an affiliate of Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, is looking for an 38% increase.
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Aetna (AET) announced it is pulling out of the four states it is currently in. The insurer says it expects to lose more than $200 million this year, on top of the nearly $700 million it lost in Obamacare's first three years.
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Before government and "insurance" fucked it all up medical care WAS affordable for Dr visits etc. You could get really sick or injured but a catastrophic plan was all that was needed not this "use insurance for every sniffle and scrape" plan we have now.