Tens of millions of Americans are set to see their health insurance costs soar when subsidies under the Affordable Care Act expire at the end of this year. Health insurance premiums are expected to more than double or even triple for some 20 million people, pricing many out of healthcare coverage entirely. “We’ve done nothing as a country to control healthcare costs,” says Elisabeth Benjamin, vice president of health initiatives at the Community Service Society of New York and member of New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s transition team. She discusses how premiums will work, how to seek help, what to watch for in alternative plans, and more.
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its false in that you where suggesting it was a big win to the insurers but it was much better than what was before. You are comparing it to better things which I already mentioned would be even better (medicare for all which is the most commonly heard universal healthcare idea mentioned) but it was an improvement over what we had before.
Doesn’t change the fact that the country should have sorted this 15 years ago. It’s been a 15 year long lifeline funded by the taxpayers to a industry of middlemen that needed to fail.
Anything that extended the survival of the industry was not the answer.
I was uninsured up until a handful fo years ago, (the only reason it got picked up is that spouse is working for a European company with fantastic benefits and PTO - the US business community is so fucking uncivilized…) so the notion that no insurance meant no medical care was and is to this day, corporate propaganda.
Being uninsured meant you got treatments at cost.
It’s the collusion of insurers with the hospital corporations that jacked the prices up sky-high. Also the predatory nature of an industry that takes advantage of the ill and infirm who in their desperation CAN be squeezed for every last red cent that they have.
If the insurers were doing so poorly with the ACA in place, they’d have left the markets. They were given too much subsidies.
No CEO deserves to earn more than any of the top people in the government, esp. not when the public was mandated - in that they had no choice under penalty of law - to comply with purchasing the so-called “product”.
“Skin in the game”, as Obama phrased it, was all on the public. The CEO’s and investors weren’t suffering hardships or denials of claims. Personally, adter witnessing family that suffered under the BS of United Health and Aetna… Don’t fool yourself, what the law said vs. how the cunts used every loophole to fuck people - again - who had NO choice - under penalty of law to NOT continue to buy coverage after being told that the procedures they’d need wouldn’t be covered…
Nope. Nothing I wrote was patently false. The industry didn’t change one jot, they just offered up the cheap freebies as slick PR.
I disagree. I dealt with it before aca and aca was a huge improvement. I do agree that it would have been even better if we truly sorted it into a working system but your line of argument is the type of thing I see conservatives bring up to get rid of it with no intention of doing fixes just going back to the way it used to be. We should 100% be doing single payer universal healthcare but the aca half a loaf was better than the no loaf that preceded it.