A baby is condemned to death by socialized medicine

[gwb-trading]

The US death rate has not been going up for years.

The U.S. death rate has floated between 7.9 to 8.8 per 1000 since 1980 according to the CDC.

Improvements in the death rate have been brought about by advancements in medicine (vaccines, treatments, technology, drugs, etc.) over the past 100 years - not by changes in insurance coverage.

 

[gwb-trading]

"These increased costs for employers and employees alike may seem steep—up around 50% over the past eight years—but they could have risen far higher had the Affordable Care Act never passed. The Kaiser study shows that average family premiums rose 20% from 2011 to 2016. That rate of increase is actually much lower than the previous five years (up 31% from 2006 to 2011) and the five years before that (up 63% from 2001 to 2006)."

http://time.com/money/4503325/obama-health-care-costs-obamacare/

The usual increase was 31%, you are saying it has increased 35% for you while the average being 20% for most people.

And yes... I have seen the claims that "your cost would have risen further without ACA" - however I do not believe them. My family healthcare costs have risen under 10% per year from 1986 to 2010. Then after ACA goes into effect they are rising 30% to 35% per year with notes every year from my employer stating the much higher cost with worse coverage is directly attributable to ACA.

 

[exGOPer]

And yes... I have seen the claims that "your cost would have risen further without ACA" - however I do not believe them. My family healthcare costs have risen under 10% per year from 1986 to 2010. Then after ACA goes into effect they are rising 30% to 35% per year with notes every year from my employer stating the much higher cost with worse coverage is directly attributable to ACA.

Then there must be peculiar about your insurance coverage because they are not the norm.

 

[Tony Stark]

The U.S. death rate has floated between 7.9 to 8.8 per 1000 since 1980 according to the CDC.

Improvements in the death rate have been brought about by advancements in medicine (vaccines, treatments, technology, drugs, etc.) over the past 100 years - not by changes in insurance coverage.

If improvements in the death rate have been brought about by advancements in medicine vaccines, treatments, technology, drugs, etc than the more people who has access to the advancements in medicine will improve the death rate which obamacare did and republicans want to take away.

 

[gwb-trading]

If improvements in the death rate have been brought about by advancements in medicine vaccines, treatments, technology, drugs, etc than the more people who has access to the advancements in medicine will improve the death rate which obamacare did and republicans want to take away.

Greatly increasing the insurance rates that 176 million people pay in the U.S. so an additional 22 million can be added to the insurance rolls (at significant cost to others) does not improve the death rate.... it simply decreases the access of the 176 million to services they can no longer afford due to high co-pays, significant out-of-pocket deductibles, high coinsurance, and other costs --

 

[gwb-trading]

Then there must be peculiar about your insurance coverage because they are not the norm.

My insurance coverage is the same as every Research Triangle Park company offers. The experience of every family is the same. This is the norm for everyone working in the tech sector.

 

[exGOPer]

Greatly increasing the insurance rates -

This is not true according to the study, things like deductibles have increased because this is how insurance is supposed to operate by covering serious stuff - something conservatives have argued for decades.

 

[wildchild]

Why would the democrats care? They were hoping the mom had an abortion.

 

[exGOPer]

My insurance coverage is the same as every Research Triangle Park company offers. The experience of every family is the same. This is the norm for everyone working in the tech sector.

NC didn't cooperate with ACA unlike other states, it's understandable the transition didn't go through smoothly for them

 

[gwb-trading]

This is not true according to the study, things like deductibles have increased because this is how insurance is supposed to operate by covering serious stuff - something conservatives have argued for decades.

You do realize that most Americans working in the tech sector never paid a deductible until Obamacare came around. We all had 100% plans with no deductibles until Obamacare came around now we all have 70/30 or 80/20 plans with huge monthly employee payments and deductibles.