States approving huge spikes in health-insurance premiums [Where's the "Affordable" in the ACA?]

Hotair ^ | 08/27/2015 | Ed Morrissey

[cripplecreek]

Well, on the bright side we aren't in Tennessee.



Michigan legislative action thread

[glennaro]

Good idea ... I'll buy her a copy. If I give her my autographed one I may never see it again!

Cheers!

[Robert357]

Thank goodness that the ACA is working just like the President promised and has repeatedly said. I am so glad that Nancy P and Harry R are so proud of their accomplishments. It should make the 2016 elections all that much more interesting as those ACA policy holders find that “Affordable Care” is no longer affordable.

The Republicans should raise as a political issue the ACA and say they will fix it the moment that Democrats admit they forced a flawed and stupid law upon the American public that damaged and hurt many of those who were most vulnerable.

[FreeAtlanta]

Insurance execs were smarter/less leftist the first time when Hillary tried to push this crap on them and us.

[FreeAtlanta]

One great reasons our “representatives” should no longer travel to Washington, but should telecommute from an office in their home districts.

[CSM]

Hahaha, so true!

[Lazamataz]

States approving huge spikes in .....

.....helmets.

[don-o]

Not a bug. It’s a feature.

[tm61]

its very affordable, (when you arent the one paying for it.)

[Hardens Hollow]

He’s the one that is so proud of it - so how is calling it after him disrespectful?

It only would be if she thought it was a dismal failure

[glennaro]

You're right, of course ... but that would assume a lifelong liberal raised in the San Francisco area thinks logically rather than emotionally.

That said, I do have a decades-long record of persistence ......

[ReformedBeckite]

Tennessee probably seeing a big growth in premiums, because there has been a big growth in people moving to Tennessee, where the jobs are at, Tennessee is a republican red state, and the democrats are fighting to get it back.

Anyway It's mostly all those young people, and middle age people that think they have to go see the doctor every time they sneeze, or cough, or hurt a little. And the big corrupt health care companies in Tennessee are willing to take care of them at a inflated price in their new shiny new hospitals they have staffed with as many specialists as they can, with an army of corrupt billing coders/individuals that will bill you for everything they can find legally to keep the money flowing to their pockets. While trying to outlaw the old private practice doctors that are still around here and their. Tennessee hospitals are screwing people out of money so fast, Obama keeps visiting Tennessee to learn how to do it better, and hope to get Tennessee back into the blue state status.

[A CA Guy]

Mostly because most all who signed up were welfare who don’t pay and we are seeing how taxpayers have to pay it all.

I myself pay $5000 a year with a $6500 deductible for horrible insurance.
My wife and child pay another $4000 year.
With another big rate hike I will be eligible to go without and to legally not have Obamacare.
If I lose my job I can get insurance 5 levels higher than I have now for free, so this system supports failure and punishes success.

[FreedomPoster]

Bingo.

I think it is happening more quickly than the architects expected or wanted. A longer process would have made it harder to revert to the system ante. There is still a chance of doing so if it craters in the next couple of years.

[Hardens Hollow]

that has to frustrating. I don’t know what I’d do if my sender up being a liberal. I know my will would change until he smartened up. ;)

[Jane Long]

We have to make it more *affordable*, for the insurance company to pay into campaign slush funds, etc.

Fixed it ;-)

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks cripplecreek.

[GOPJ]

Obamacare was a big fat gift to insurance companies... count the donations... follow the money.

Never heard a poor person - in my life - say, ‘What we need is to be forced to buy insurance’...