Maybe you can explain your side of the argument for me. I am for the Affordable Healthcare Act, though personally I would favor a single payer system over it, but whenever I ask people the reason they are against it they usually just throw out a bunch of buzz words and don't actually give valid reasons. I'd like to hear that side of the argument from someone that actually knows why they are against it, lol.
My local news calls it "Obamacare" and also affordable healthcare act. Literally both.
I actually went to healthcare.gov...and it goes to the same exact place.
If you're meaning excuses as to why that is the number, that isn't the actual number for Obamacare. From what I've been reading it's a phone sex line that was similar and changed their message to that. The real number spells out as: 1-800-F1UCKYO. Whether or not that information is true, either way it isn't hard to realize it's fake. When is the last time you called a store, or anywhere, and there was an automated machine asking you if that was a place you were calling? Then RECONNECTED you.
I'm against Obamacare, but I wouldn't mind seeing something like a single payer system as well. The problem with Obamacare is that it's too expensive. In most states, an average middle class person's premiums are increasing by 50%-150%. On top of that, you will have a huge deductible (somewhere in the $5000-$6000 range). This is going to destroy the middle class. Consumer spending is going to drop dramatically once everyone is forced to pay an extra $100-$200 per month. Our economy is already on shaky ground, I just don't how this could end well.
1-800 FUCK YOU is Obamacare, what are you talking about? They changed the 1, it goes to the exact same place.
Yeah I agree that, that is an issue with Obamacare, that there are many people that barely make too much to benefit from the subsidies but as a whole I feel the benefits outweigh the bills faults. And I don't mean to sound impersonal as I know people who are affected negatively but the greater majority of insured individuals won't be affected by the raise in premiums because they will either qualify for the subsidies or get insurance through their workplace. I still don't understand though how the insurance companies can justify raising their premiums as high as they are rising since the only thing that is implemented before 2015 is guaranteed protection for people with pre-existing conditions.
It's not necesarily the insurance company's fault that their premiums are going up. Obamacare places certain coverage mandates on what types of plans they can offer, meaning they must offer more coverage for it to be considered acceptable health insurance. That expense gets passed on to us. AHA also imposes a straight up tax on health insurers. there is also something called "Community Rating", which says that the most expensive plans cannot be more than 3x more expensive than the cheapest plans. Instead of making the most expensive plans cheaper, most companies are just raising the cheapest plans. All these expenses are getting passed on to the consumer.
Keep watching Rachel Maddow bro....you're fuckin out there.
Wait what? lol i'm just stating what it probably is.
The way I see it though it is the insurance company's fault. They were told that they can only charge 3x more for the most expensive plan than the cheapest, so instead of lowering the price of the most expensive they raise the price of the cheapest. I don't feel they were justified to do this considering it is a fact that America has the highest average cost for healthcare for their coverage in comparison to the average income. In other words, American insurance companies are already fucking us over with their current prices, and now they are going to raise them. This is an issue with the insurance companies, not an issue with the legislation.