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> Obama gave America over to the health care industry This is disingenuous at best - health care costs have and will continue to grow every year. At least for
by ejstronge 8y ago
> Obama gave America over to the health care industry
This is disingenuous at best - health care costs have and will continue to grow every year. At least for its first few years, the ACA decreased the growth of health care spending. We'll see how it goes now that it's being played around with.
- malvosenior 8y agoDo you live in the US? My insurance now costs me more than half of my mortgage. Prior to the ACA it was about half of that.
- ejstronge 8y agoI do live in the US. The growth figures relate to population-level metrics. At the level of the individual, other factors are also at play, like the willingness of one's employer to subsidize health insurance. EDIT: a reference - https://wire.ama-assn.org/practice-management/health-care-spending-growth-rate-its-highest-2007 https://wire.ama-assn.org/practice-management/health-care-sp...
- monocasa 8y agoPart of the ACA was capping profit percentages, which just incentivises insurance companies to increase revenue and spending to increase real profits year after year.
- djsumdog 8y agoI don't think that's true. I worked in Health Insurance for three years during the height of the ACA debates. I had high hopes for the ACA, but most of the positive provisions where crippled and the ACA varies heavily from state to state. Had everyone been forced to buy from the marketpalce, we would have seen a more significant difference. After living outside the US and returning, I wrote about this last year: https://fightthefuture.org/article/returning-to-america-and-the-unaffordable-care-act/ https://fightthefuture.org/article/returning-to-america-and-...
- ejstronge 8y agoI took a look at your article - what points in my claim (i.e., annual health care cost growth decreased in the first years of the ACA compared to expectations) do you find incorrect? I'm happy to find primary references if you'd like. EDIT: As I said before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16933813 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16933813), an individual's health care costs depend most strongly on personal factors like employer contributions.