You are delusional When ACA passed, a certain premium threshold was scored by the CBO The CBO later LOWERED these, so when Ted Cruz said that premiums are rising, he is LYING. It's simple.
The writer of this article is a brazen liar, i can point to dozens of news releases where companies said they were going to lay off tens of thousands of employees due to obamacare. He also makes the rificulous claim that businesses arent hiring people part time based on obamacare yet in the last year we have added almost zero full time jobs, and 1 million part time jobs. You really ough to check your facts moron. Only a complete fucking retard would actually try to argue that obamacare will not be harmful to employment.
In other words the only people who will see a rate shock are those who actually use obamacare. What a dumb fucking statement.
WOW, brilliant, so premiums havent gone up for EVERY SINGLE PERSON? Politifact must have hired a crack staff to get to the bottom of that one, keep up the good work clousseau you are really doing some good investigative journalism here.
Got anything else skippy? When the payroll report was released last month, the world finally noticed what we had been saying for nearly three years: that the US was slowly being converted to a part-time worker society. This slow conversion accelerated drastically in the last few months, and especially in June, when part time jobs exploded higher by 360K while full time jobs dropped by 240K. In July we are sad to report that America's conversation to a part-time worker society is not "tapering": according to the Household Survey, of the 266K jobs created (note this number differs from the establishment survey), only 35% of jobs, or 92K, were full time. The rest were... not.
That's important, though. It forces an honest person, before they start shouting, to discover the actual distribution of good and bad premium changes.
Right, it's not Cruz's fault for lying, its politifact's fault for fact-checking the BS claim. As for actual premium increases. "According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the average family premium for employer-sponsored plans rose by an average of 5.8 percent per year from 2008 to 2013. Before that, premiums actually were rising faster. From 1999 to 2008, premiums rose by an average of 13.2 percent a year, Kaiser found." So how much have premiums increased more than their usual rate? Analysts at the Kaiser Family Foundation, an independent group that enjoys broad credibility, have declined to compare rates before and after Obamacare on the grounds that good data is lacking. They said we donât know what people in the individual market pay today and we donât know what they will choose in the Marketplaces. Let's wait for the actual data rather than getting into another skewed nonsense again.