I remember when ObamaCare took $700 billion from Medicare because of this massive savings by cutting physician Medicare payments. Well, those payments were just bumped back up to where they were before with Obama's fiscal cliff deal. Is ObamaCare going to give back the $700 billion it stole from Medicare on this lie?
Quick recap Premium increases under Bush,9-13 % http://www.commonwealthfund.org/New...-Insurance-Premiums-Increase-119-Percent.aspx Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Premiums Increase 119 Percent from 1999-2008 Premium increases under Obama 2.8-5.7 % http://ehbs.kff.org/?page=charts&id=1&sn=6&p=1 The average annual premiums in 2012 are $5,615 for single coverage and $15,745 for family coverage. Average premiums increased 3% for single coverage and 4% for family coverage in the last year. [/B][/QUOTE] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...4/how-obamacare-affects-health-plan-premiums/ Moving forward, the Congressional Budget Office does indeed expect insurance premiums to increase, by 5.7 percent annually. [/B][/QUOTE] http://reason.com/blog/2012/12/07/why-obamacare-will-make-health-insurance Over the next decade, the firm found, insurance premiums are likely to increase by an average of 2.8 to 3.7 percent.
Our resident troll isn't dealing with the true facts. The Employer Health Benefits Survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation, which specializes in health care issues, found that health insurance premiums had jumped by 9 percent in 2011, up from a 5 percent annual increase since 2007.