Obamacare was started for one reason, and one reason ONLY, CONTROL! It had NOTHING to do with healthcare as FEWER peopel were insured a year after implementation than before it went into affect. It was all written by insurance companies to benefit insurance companies. Having used insurance recently, and seen the corruption in it, I can ASSURE you the ONLY peopel benefiting from it ARE the insureance companies. I got charged over $1200 in BS added on charges for a surgery in 12/13, but becuase of ocare, blue cross told me to pound sand and pay it, they wouldn't dispute it or even consider it. I filed a complaint with the providers, and they basically told me pay it because they knew the insurance companies were on there side. The thing many overlook about it is it GUARANTEES the insurance companies that sell policies under the exchange to NOT lose money on ANY policy it writes. So if they mess up, guess who just payed, the taxpayers. I had MAJOR hip surgery done in 2002, and it cost less than $22K for EVERYTHING! I had hip surgery done again in 2013(not as major as 2002, but still quite a bit) that occupied the OR for maybe half the amount of time, and it cost right at $100K for the hospital alone(the surgeon doing the work got maybe $1200 for his part). After having to use insurance, you get REALLY PISSED off about all this, espescially when you see what you're paying, and how little you get in return.My employer has historically had really good coverage at virtually no cost to us. It went up for the first time in a long time last year, then we got hit with the stupid Cadillac tax this year (thanks Obamacare), and it went up so much my employer had to cut coverage AND increase rates
I thought the point of Obamacare was to improve healthcare, yet here it is getting worse and more expensive. Gotta pay for the illegals somehow I guess
They touted that it would control costs, WRONG! It was never about controlling costs, if it was it would have included reforms involving lawsuits, limits on them, and when you can sue. Somebody can undergo a procedure that they know going into it is experimental with NO expectations of success, and if it fails they will sue. Theres lawyers out there that will sue even for successfull procedures because they say it took to long, or the procedure was to painfull. Meanwhile people like me get double billed and told tough SH!T, pay the bill or else. It's ALL a screwed up situation. Not looking forward to next year. I take right at $1000 in meds a month, and the plan's for next year don't cover my 2 most expensive meds I'm on right now. The alternative meds they tell me to take are meds my doctor refuses to write because of my medical history, and he refuses to write them in general. So now I have to find doctors willing to write teh scripts my insurance company will pay for.
