Where are the figures regarding those that lost their insurance and were forced to purchase new insurance?
Where are the figures on the percentage that the existing insurance premiums went up? Highest increase ever.
Where's the figures on how many business owners sold their business rather than go bankrupt because of Obamacare?
How many were forced to purchase insurance that didn't need it?
"[T]here can be no doubt that health care today is more costly than it would have been without Obamacare...
Measured over two years, Obamacare's rate hikes remain toxic. And further increases are on the horizon in 2017, when some of the law's subsidies to insurance companies are set to expire...
"[T]he Democrats' health care law [Obamacare] will increase the budget deficit by $131 billion over the current 10-year budget window (FY 2015–2024). This estimate is arrived at by taking the $180 billion in projected deficit reduction from the CBO 2012 extrapolation and then accounting for the lower net cost of the coverage provisions ($83 billion), the lower estimated federal health care savings under the plan ($132 billion), as well as the lower projected revenue levels when including the labor market effects of the legislation ($262 billion). The difference between the 2012 extrapolation and the current estimate of the cost of the Democrats' health law amounts to a $311 billion change in its net deficit impact."
"To partially offset the ACA's new spending, the law contains spending cuts to Medicare that amount to $716 billion from 2013 to 2022. The Medicare Trustees have warned since the law's passage that if these cuts are implemented as the law requires, they will significantly impact seniors' access to and quality of care. For example, the law reduces payments in the Medicare Advantage (MA) program, the private insurance option under Medicare, by $156 billion from 2013 to 2022. These cuts are already causing MA plans to adjust their benefit packages by restricting provider networks. The end result of course is that seniors have fewer provider options and in some cases are forced to find new doctors."
"According to a recent study, perhaps up to 80% of ObamaCare's new Medicaid enrollees previously had private insurance plans...
One recent study found that Medicaid is not only worse than private insurance — it can be worse than having no insurance at all. Medicaid patients were 25% likelier to have an in-hospital death than those completely without health insurance.
The same study also found that, compared with private insurance, Medicaid patients were twice as likely to have an in-hospital death, had the longest lengths of hospital stays and had the highest costs...
These are startling results for a government-run health care system advertised as a quality substitute for private insurance. In reality, ObamaCare has created a two-tier health care system — and it's forcing millions of patients out of the top tier and into the bottom."
"Perhaps one of the most troubling parts of Obamacare is the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). The IPAB will consist of fifteen unelected bureaucrats who are granted substantial powers to reduce Medicare spending. IPAB's proposals could, for example, cut reimbursement for specific services that it determines not to be of high value… DEATH PANELS??
"Since the implementation of the ACA, the majority of member physicians have noticed an increase in the volume of emergency patients. Specifically, 47% of emergency physicians indicate slight increases in the number of patients, while 28% of respondents report significant increases in the number of emergency patients."
This is big enough that many won't read it, so I will stop here. Before expounding on how great Obamacare is, you had better look at the sacrifices required to everyone. Obamacare was not well thought through and as a result it is going to cost America a great deal. It was not bipartisan and therefore, it focuses only on the socialist aspect of medicine and not how it will impact the economy. Liberals are selfish and only look at what it can do for them, and care nothing for what it will do to the American way.
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