Health Premiums Up $3,065; Obama Vowed $2,500 Cut ["by the end of my first term"]

yahoo.com ^ | September 24, 2012

[grundle]

Premiums for employer-provided family coverage rose $3,065 — 24% — from 2008 to 2012, the Kaiser survey found.

At a campaign stop in Columbus, Ohio, in February 2008, Obama promised that "We are going to work with you to lower your premiums by $2,500. We will not wait 20 years from now to do it, or 10 years from now to do it. We will do it by the end of my first term as president.

[grundle]

Obama caters to people who are too stupid to figure out that he is lying. There really are millions of people who think that whatever Obama says must be true, no matter how implausible it sounds.

[lowbridge]

Bump

[griswold3]

The article is from 2012. My insurance has gone up 36% in 2013 and another 38% in 2014. That’s a decrease in the rate of increase but the amount is higher each year. (Self employed)
This will not last too much longer.

[tflabo]

Bammy’s not even embarrassed or takes accountability that his promises ended up the exact opposite. If your word is no good, they you are no good—simple as that.

[BobL]

So the President cut the cost of healthcare by $2500 per family, but he added all these goodies (like unlimited shrink visits for psychos and abortion on demand) that premiums ended up increasing by $3000.

So he can say that he KEPT HIS PROMISE as premiums would have increased by $5500 had the same ‘improvements’ been done, but without his help in getting costs down.

Net effect: $3000 (cost increase) - $5500 (improvements) = $2500 SAVINGS!!!

Thank you Big O!!! Yeah.

[tflabo]

sorry-—not they, ‘then’...... dopey me not proof reading.

[Amagi]

When Obama flaps his yapper he's usually lying, or he's exposing what an ignorant idiot he is.
Once in a while a truth escapes his pie hole, such as "... we are 5 days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America" (but not completing the thought with "... into a third world socialist craphole"), and "... under my plan energy prices will necessarily skyrocket."
What's the use of being a liberal if you can't lie, cheat, and steal, eh, B.O.?

[krunkygirl]

stop your freakin` complaining-—
this is `the new order`.

get used to it. Period.

[rovenstinez]

Hey, let’s change the subject. Don’t look into these alegations. It’s racist to even bring up this matter.

[Seaplaner]

Premiums for employer-provided family coverage rose $3,065 — 24% — from 2008 to 2012, the Kaiser survey found. Even if you start counting in 2009, premiums have climbed $2,370.

What's more, premiums climbed faster in Obama's four years than they did in the previous four under President Bush, the survey data show.

Lying...

"Democrat" for raison d'être.

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[Pontiac]

At a campaign stop in Columbus, Ohio, in February 2008, Obama promised that "We are going to work with you to lower your premiums by $2,500. We will not wait 20 years from now to do it, or 10 years from now to do it. We will do it by the end of my first term as president.

No one that was paying attention, other than the Obamabots, really believed his story.

It is simply beyond credulity to believe that you can add 30 million uninsured (many of which will be high end users of medical services) to the insurance rolls with out adding millions of new doctors (which is impossible) with out drastic increases in insurance premiums.

Even anyone with the simplest understanding of economics (price versus demand) should get that prices must rise.

Of course many listened to Mr. Hope and Change without a single analytical thought to what he is saying and swallow the hook, line and sinker.

[bike800]

The sad part is...he knew Republicans would never support it, so any lies he told were to his own party, to get their support.