More bad news for Republicans: The Affordable Care Act is working great

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6. Roughly 5% per year the last decade, vs 10% per year the decade before

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I worked for a company that self-funded employee health insurance in 1998, at no cost to employees. Within two years they were losing their shirts on medical costs and asking employees not to go to the doctor unless absolutely necessary, use walk-in clinics rather than the hospital and so forth. Another two years and they went to private group insurance and charged employees a monthly fee deducted from the check. And the fee went up every year...I haven't worked there in a long time so I don't know how things have changed under the ACA. At my current job I have health insurance at $75 a month, and its stayed the same for three years now (though deductibles and copays are fairly high if I actually had to use it).