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(82,849 posts) Mon Jun 20, 2016, 06:11 PM Jun 2016

More bad news for Republicans: The Affordable Care Act is working great [View all]

Richard Mayhew, insurance maven at Balloon Juice, has a quick rundown on some of the salutary effects of the Affordable Care Act: spending on healthcare nationwide is down about 10% from the 2010 projections, and consumer anxiety about being able to pay for medical expenses has gone down to 15.5% of the population (down from 21% in the last quarter of 2008).

https://www.balloon-juice.com/2016/06/20/good-news-everybody-37/#comments

I wonder if anyone in the popular media will notice this?

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More bad news for Republicans: The Affordable Care Act is working great [View all] gratuitous Jun 2016 OP

It would be awesome, if my premiums stopped going UP every damn year. onecaliberal Jun 2016 #1

Mine too but I understand its working great for the greater vs the few uponit7771 Jun 2016 #2

Ya wanna know why? It is because their profits have a cap in place. tonyt53 Jun 2016 #3

"medical care before a problem develops" scscholar Jun 2016 #5

Pre-existing conditions cannot keep you from getting insurance or make it more expensive Freddie Jun 2016 #8

Indeed - they never went up before gratuitous Jun 2016 #4

Roughly 5% per year the last decade, vs 10% per year the decade before bhikkhu Jun 2016 #6

They definitely went up before ACA too, but it seems like we're onecaliberal Jun 2016 #9

We would be facing bankruptcy without the ACA central scrutinizer Jun 2016 #7

Pre-existing conditions may not be important to those who has not experienced a problem, Thinkingabout Jun 2016 #10

While LWolf Jun 2016 #11