Health insurance premiums increasing?

Gee, that's a first!

NO, WAIT! - Health insurance premiums have been skyrocketing for a decade.

Oh, I see - now it's Obama's fault?

lol....

The WSJ article estimates that one in five Americans, or 20%, work at companies with fewer than 50 employees, so these increases will affect a lot of people.

Guess what, that's been a problem for a long time now - the right just hasn't given a damn about it until now.

Dane, Obama and the Democrats insisted that their health care reform legislation would decrease people's health care costs. It's driving them up, instead.

Obama said it would also decrease the deficit. In fact, Obama said in an interview with Charlie Gibson that the federal government would go bankrupt if his health care reforms didn't pass. It's increasing the deficit.

ObamaCare's two biggest selling points have proven to be completely untrue. That's the point, Dane. But you don't get that point, Dane, because you refuse to. You've made it clear to everyone here that you will defend Obama and his policies until the day you die.

Ah, socialism, is there anything it can't ruin?

Feb. 25, 2010, President Barack Obama and Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., debate over the issue of how the Democrats' health care plan would affect premiums.

"The Congressional Budget Office report says that premiums will rise in the individual market as a result of the Senate bill," Alexander said.

"No, no, no, no," Obama retorted. "This is an example of where we've got to get our facts straight."

"Let me respond to what you just said, Lamar, because it's not factually accurate," Obama continued. "Here's what the Congressional Budget Office says. The costs for families for the same type of coverage that they're currently receiving would go down 14 percent to 20 percent. What the Congressional Budget Office says is that because now they've got a better deal, because policies are cheaper, they may choose to buy better coverage than they have right now, and that might be 10 percent to 13 percent more expensive than the bad insurance that they had previously.

"But they didn't say that the actual premiums would be going up. What they said was they'd be going down by 14 percent to 20 percent. And I promise you, I've gone through this carefully with the Congressional Budget Office, and I'll be happy to present this to the press and whoever's listening because this is an important issue."

I'm confused. You mean they're not just going to offer more benefits for the same price as before (or less)? Does Obama know about this?

More purple lipped kool aid courtesy of the liar in chief Dane, drink up!!

Kim, the really FUNNY part was that originally, Barry and company were going to collect and stash money on the side for the first couple of years, before the actual programs kicked in. They'd then make payments, claiming reduced costs (which was a load of crap. 10 years of savings, spent in 6 years, but averaged over 10).
Now that they've front loaded some of ObamaCare "benefits", they've got to spend the cash now. Won't be long before even idiots like Dane (or whatever name he's using today) will see that the numbers don't add up.

I WANT MY FREE SHIT AND I WANT IT NOW!!!!

Thanks for lookin' out for me Dane, or jmp, or jfo, or whoever you are.

Does Dane have to pay health insurance premiums for each of his usernames? Just wondering.

It's already happening were I work.
Including increase in deductibles, co-pays and job lay offs.
The management was point blank for the reason.
Health Care Reform.

"Does Dane have to pay health insurance premiums for each of his usernames? Just wondering."

I'm wagering that since Dane is engaged in using multiple sock puppets that based on that behavior he is probably still an adolescent or a college student and is stil covered by mommy and daddy's insurance. That would also explain his extraordinarily naive view of the world.

Could we please get a better class of lefty in here to actually debate things, instead of the foaming-at-the-mouth, easily-diverted-by-shiny-things trolls we have now?

Big Mo: "Could we please get a better class of lefty in here to actually debate things, instead of the foaming-at-the-mouth, easily-diverted-by-shiny-things trolls we have now?"

No.

At this point in time, only the true-believing "easily-diverted-by-shiny-things trolls" are left to defend the obviously indefensible.

Which is why despite having complete control of Congress for 3.5 years and the Presidency for the last 1.75 years with unstoppable majorities, all the li'l trolls can do is still scream "Bush's fault" and "look at Sarah Palin!!" and "racist!!".

They quite literally have nothing left. At all.

I believe that folks across the country are starting to realize that their health insurance rates are not going to decrease, as advertised.

We needed health care reform, but shoving it through the Congress the way it was done was clearly a mistake. There's still time to correct it.