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Originally Posted by cuserounder
This rate increase is going to hit me very hard. Looks like my insurer asked for a 37% increase. As a point of reference, I stepped down to one of the lower tier plans this year because of a ~25% premium increase. Now I'll be paying more than I was in 2017 for a really good plan, but I'll be down two tiers on a very mediocre plan where the first ~6K comes out of pocket.
Whoever gets blamed for this is going to get hammered at the polls, and I'm afraid that low information voters will just blame Democrats because it's called Obamacare. We'll be "losing" arguments about this for the rest of our lives.
R's are banking on their plan of "then let's not have sick poor people get healthcare then" work as long as it lowers costs for everyone else. Ie, banking on narcissism.
Can't say they're wrong about thinking like that in this country.
The only point they have is people who eat ****, never exercise, and/or smoke a lot is just plain stupid for everyone else to have to pay for.
Ideally we'd get healthcare turned around from a for profit industry all around into one that actually gives a **** but it looks like that's not gonna happen. Usually the only thing that passes is throw a lot of money at the problem and just sit back and watch as greed takes over and then we find out later a bunch of people just swindled it.