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The full story is that health care costs continue to rise, but at a less alarming pace than they did prior to the healthcare reform legislation.
These Republicans seem to believe that the health care system was okay prior to reform. They are stupid.
And I believe someone posted that premiums are down overall by 3% ????
I'm just thinking: If person has to twist and mislead in order to defend their political position, they really don't have a very good position, huh?
"But many people elsewhere have experienced significant jumps in the premiums they pay. According to the federal analysis, 36 percent of the requests to raise rates by 10 percent or more were found to be reasonable. Insurers withdrew 12 percent of those requests, 26 percent were modified and another 26 percent were found to be unreasonable.
And, in some cases, consumer advocates say insurers have gone ahead and charged what regulators described as unreasonable rates because the state had no ability to deny the increases.
Two insurers cited by federal officials last year for raising rates excessively in nine states appear to have proceeded with their plans, said Carmen Balber, the Washington director for Consumer Watchdog, an advocacy group. While the publicity surrounding the rate requests may have drawn more attention to what the insurers were doing, regulators werent getting any results by doing that, she said.
Some consumer advocates and policy experts say the insurers may be increasing rates for fear of charging too little, and they may be less afraid of having to refund some of the money than risk losing money."
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/06/b...premiums.html?pagewanted=2&_r=3&smid=pl-share
Overall premiums have decreased by 3%
yes or no.
showing where the rates of "some" have gone up doesn't change the fact that on average - across the board - premiums have decreased by 3%.
I can say cancer has been cured since no one I know has it - but that wouldn't be true either now would it?
You tried to pull some crap - or you just didn't understamnd what you were posting. Trying to weasle around it only makes you look worse.