I made the payment, it must have been a computer glitch.
I promise I\’ll respect you in the morning.
If you like your insurance plan you can keep your insurance plan.
If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor.
The average family will save $2,500 a year…
…and, now…
…ObamaCare rates won\’t go up, they\’ll actually drop relative to inflation. But if they do go up, it\’s not ObamaCare\’s fault. It\’s the insurance administrator in your state. And yours. And yours. And yours. And yours.
Excerpted from John Merline\’s honestly constructed essay at Investors Business Daily (honesty being a thing that is virtually unknown to the Obama administration):
…Obama bragged at an event in Tennessee about the many wonderful aspects of the law, including the fact that “we\’re actually seeing less health care inflation.”
…a questioner had the temerity to ask Obama about massive rate hikes in the state: “I don\’t know if you\’re aware,” the questioner said, “that BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee has announced a significant increase after the one that they gave from 2014 to 2015.”
BCBS is asking for a 36.3% hike in premiums this year, on top of the 18%-plus increase they got last year, because “claims significantly exceed the premiums collected.”
Obama\’s response was to tell her to “stay on your insurance commissioner, pay attention to what they\’re doing.” Those insurance companies, he said, always ask for sky-high rate increases, and if the commissioner “does their job in not just passively reviewing the rates” then rates will “come in significantly lower than what\’s being requested.”
Oh really?
…as Oregon State Public Interest Research Group\’s Jesse Ellis O\’Brien told the New York Times, the resulting “rate increases will be bigger in 2016 than they have been for years and years and will have a profound effect on consumers here. Some may start wondering if insurance is affordable or if it\’s worth the money.”
He\’s right. And there\’s little reason to believe that Tennessee\’s commissioner, or those in other states, will have any more luck bringing down jumbo-sized rate requests than did Oregon\’s.
That\’s because, as with Oregon, regulators have to make sure their insurance markets don\’t collapse. And the big insurers asking for double-digit rate hikes are backing those requests up with cold hard claims data which show that costs per enrollee are far higher than expected. (Which is what critics of the law said would happen.)
So if ObamaCare enrollees want to complain about next year\’s sky-high ObamaCare premiums, they should address them not to their insurance company, or their state insurance regulators, but to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
The biggest wonder is not that ObamaCare costs are skyrocketing. And it certainly is not an issue that Obama knew they would: why else would he have unilaterally given waivers for ObamaCare – first until after the 2012 elections and then until after the 2014 elections? Because he thought rates would drop???
No, the biggest wonder is that, after 6 1/2 years of being lied to, continually, about ObamaCare and virtually everything else, why anyone would believe a thing President Obama or anyone else from his administration ever says.
