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The Affordable Care Act "enrolleee sees premium spike over 300% as sign-up period begins: 'This will devastate us.'"
-You're right, that does sound nicer
/s
I've used the program for both market insurance and medicaid and beside the expanded medicaid I consider the program a failure from inception. -Insurance doesn't have to pay if they refuse to acknowledge a person's claims which renders all other benefits a moot point.
Expanded medicaid was the point, we were supposed to have single-payer and mandated insurance with ACA, and then Republicans stripped those out, which hobbled the program and took away the main advantages. It's worth revisiting this because this is how 32/33 of the most developed nations on earth do it, surely there's something worth salvaging and trying again on.
Quick edit just to add, during the first year of ACA, I had to get it due to the mandate even tho I was healthy and young. My lung spontaneously collapsed that year, and I had to have $330,000 worth of surgeries. I paid $19 for a medication that was optional, otherwise I saw no bill. The program can work.
This is how it was supposed to be.
when the democrats had control of the house and senate? -That's akin to the current repubs blaming the democrats for the shutdown.
-Also if it's really about expanded medicaid then it's not particularly related to the post. Medicaid premiums I highly doubt are going up 300%
Nor are the VA costs. Turns out the government is very good at negotiating its own costs and passing them along to the taxpayers