And you get your information from - where?

Posted: Jun 9th, 2018 - 11:15 am In Reply to: Under Obama they were going up 25-40%. Under Trump - it's 18%. Sounds okay to me.

"There’s some truth to Spicer’s statement about employer-based insurance premiums going up because of the ACA. But the impact has been small and related to increased benefit requirements in 2011. Since then, employer plans have been growing at historically low average rates."

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Get ready for medical insurance premiums - to jump dramatically (Views: 620, 2018-06-09, 10:25 am)
- Nope, sorry. Has nothing to do with the mandates. It has - to do with having to cover everything (Views: 477, 2018-06-09, 10:37 am)
  - I wish I could for people to make my house payment. - That seem fair if I have to pay their (Views: 413, 2018-06-09, 10:45 am)
    - for = force - sticky keys (Views: 424, 2018-06-09, 10:46 am)
  - My favorite line in a movie is from "12 Monkeys." When - asked what business she is in by (Views: 417, 2018-06-09, 10:55 am)
    - 12 Monkeys - Anon (Views: 349, 2018-06-10, 12:38 pm)
  - It has everything to do with the - mandate (Views: 454, 2018-06-09, 11:10 am)
    - Another govt program taken out of my paycheck that I - had no control over. I would have (Views: 382, 2018-06-09, 11:13 am)
      - If people actually had to write a check for their Social - Security (which I do), Medicare, (Views: 445, 2018-06-09, 11:15 am)
    - Medicare is a forced tax taken out of my paycheck but - I didn't have to buy so-called health (Views: 415, 2018-06-09, 11:35 am)
      - Government overregulation of healthcare has resulted in the - mess we have today. So of course, (Views: 387, 2018-06-09, 12:39 pm)
        Direct Primary Care - to begin with (Views: 311, 2018-06-10, 11:36 pm)
    - I"ve been forced to pay a Medicare tax for years, so I may - be getting some of that back. But (Views: 381, 2018-06-09, 11:45 am)
      - Plus our monthly premiums alone for the "individual mandate" - far exceed what the Medicare tax (Views: 394, 2018-06-09, 12:27 pm)
  - To take money from one person to fund the debt of another, - aka robbing Peter to pay Paul. (Views: 389, 2018-06-09, 11:39 am)
    - This Can - Happen (Views: 357, 2018-06-10, 6:37 am)
      - Same here. We pay an extra few bucks for the poor, but - we don't have a choice and the company (Views: 297, 2018-06-10, 7:49 am)
      - What did your utility company say when you asked - for proof the poor were (Views: 351, 2018-06-10, 11:53 pm)
        LOL! A "dislike" on a legit question - MT9 (Views: 361, 2018-06-11, 9:46 pm)
        I know someone who refused to pay the extra money, - in my case it was $!. They threatened (Views: 322, 2018-06-12, 3:56 am)
  - Ocare subsidized the insurance industry illegally and when - that stops it will collapse on its own (Views: 433, 2018-06-09, 11:49 am)
  - "Universal" is leftie speak for your money is paying for - someone else's health insurance. (Views: 373, 2018-06-09, 12:41 pm)
    - Well, no. A lot on the "right" if we must talk - divisions (Views: 348, 2018-06-11, 10:24 pm)
  - Mandates and premiums - Deb (Views: 271, 2018-06-12, 1:52 am)
- Why should I be forced to subsidize your premiums? - I can barely afford my own. (Views: 456, 2018-06-09, 10:38 am)
  - Insurance, as most other industries, has become bastardized, - abused, and turned into the exact (Views: 425, 2018-06-09, 10:51 am)
    - We already pay a Medicare tax and payroll taxes which fund - Medicaid, SS taxes, state and local (Views: 435, 2018-06-09, 11:27 am)
- So forcing other Americans to buy health insurance coverage - they don't want to pay for other (Views: 406, 2018-06-09, 10:42 am)
- Under Obama they were going up 25-40%. Under Trump - it's 18%. Sounds okay to me. (Views: 359, 2018-06-09, 10:44 am)
  - And you get your information from - where?
    - YOU did nothing to prove the poster you are - attacking as being wrong (Views: 360, 2018-06-09, 1:47 pm)
- Is this freedom? Is this liberty? You think I should be forced - to pay for your health insurance? (Views: 371, 2018-06-09, 10:56 am)
  - Not anymore. I don't smoke, don't drink, don't eat sugar. - My health plan should be cheap (Views: 377, 2018-06-09, 11:25 am)
- Obamacare’s central provision, the individual mandate, - was ruled unconstitutional, so then the (Views: 377, 2018-06-09, 11:02 am)
  - When healthy people are not required to buy - insurance (Views: 411, 2018-06-09, 11:08 am)
    - "When healthy people are not required to buy insurance.." - Real insurance is when I buy a plan (Views: 372, 2018-06-09, 11:12 am)
      - Actually, no, insurance plans were not - "forced to cover everything" (Views: 291, 2018-06-10, 11:31 pm)
  - Your are correct. Obamacare mandate is a tax because - it was declared unconstitutional. (Views: 362, 2018-06-09, 11:22 am)
- They already did when Obamacare kicked in - poor MT (Views: 385, 2018-06-09, 12:27 pm)
  - I have faith based insurance. I like the fact that I don't have - to pay for other people's abortions, etc. (Views: 389, 2018-06-09, 12:31 pm)
    - Abortion is not covered anyway - Her (Views: 297, 2018-06-10, 11:59 pm)
      - Abortion is NOT COVERED.... - Noneya (Views: 297, 2018-06-11, 1:23 pm)
  - Christian Care has saved us so much on healthcare over the - years, staring with our monthly healthcare (Views: 334, 2018-06-11, 4:21 am)
    - I belonged to one of those care programs and - was appalled at the invasion (Views: 329, 2018-06-11, 10:00 pm)
      - Not me. I don't want to have to pay the vice of another. - nm (Views: 274, 2018-06-12, 3:57 am)
- ...and get ready for premiums to rise even more now - sm (Views: 392, 2018-06-09, 1:33 pm)