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The Socialists pushed this on us when it wasn't wanted and can't explain why everything we said would happen is coming to fruition.
Well anyone who believes the ACA is gonna be better and cheaper is dumber than a box a rocks.
Nothing the Govt sticks its big fat nose in is ever better or cheaper. Its a mountain of red tape and paperwork.
The fucking Dems passed this POS bill all on their own. They never read the damned thing and we are now finding out just whats in it. Twenty one tax increases and who the hell know what else. We had this POS shoved down our throats by the Dems.
Anyone wonder why its not as advertized?? I sure don't.
Well anyone who believes the ACA is gonna be better and cheaper is dumber than a box a rocks.
Nothing the Govt sticks its big fat nose in is ever better or cheaper. Its a mountain of red tape and paperwork.
The fucking Dems passed this POS bill all on their own. They never read the damned thing and we are now finding out just whats in it. Twenty one tax increases and who the hell know what else. We had this POS shoved down our throats by the Dems.
Anyone wonder why its not as advertized?? I sure don't.
What's dumber than a bag of rocks is your outlook. Have you read the bill, or are you just parrotting what Fox News tells you?
Health care in the US is sucking ever more of your GDP. Health care costs are rising at more than twice the rate of inflation. The current system was not sustainable. What part of that don't you understand?
The Socialists pushed this on us when it wasn't wanted and can't explain why everything we said would happen is coming to fruition.
The Socialists pushed this on us when it wasn't wanted and can't explain why everything we said would happen is coming to fruition.
You can't cut cost without control.
And if you think the government can't do it, how do you explain Medicare? It works well and cost less than private insurance.
Health care price growth in December, at 1.7% year-over-year, was three-tenths below Novembers reading, and the lowest rate since February 1998. The 12-month moving average at 2.0% is the lowest since a fractionally lower 2.0% figure was recorded in December 1998. [...]
December was the 43rd month of economic expansion but price pressures are nowhere to be found. Indeed, lower PPI and CPI readings are likely exerting downward pressure on the health price index rather than the expected opposite whereby health care prices would be stimulating general inflation. This scenario, in conjunction with aggressive measures that providers are taking to become more efficient, argue for continued price stability (or even another leg down!).
The cost of providing health care benefits to employees rose by just 4.1% this year, the smallest increase in 15 years, according to a survey by human resources consultant Mercer.
And employers are expecting to see another modest increase of 5% next year, the survey of 2,800 companies found. That's a far cry from the beginning of the decade, when employers reported increases of 10% to nearly 15% a year. Last year, benefit costs rose by 6.1%.
The slow growth in spending per beneficiary from 2010 to 2012 combined with the projections of spending growth at GDP+0 for 2012-2022 is unprecedented in the history of the Medicare program.
Medicaid and Medicare. In recent years, health care spending has grown much more slowly both nationally and for federal programs than historical rates would have indicated. (For example, in 2012, federal spending for Medicare and Medicaid was about 5 percent below the amount that CBO had projected in March 2010.) In response to that slowdown, over the past several years, CBO has made a series of downward technical adjustments to its projections of spending for Medicaid and Medicare. From the March 2010 baseline to the current baseline, such technical revisions have lowered estimates of federal spending for the two programs in 2020 by about $200 billionby $126 billion for Medicare and by $78 billion for Medicaid, or by roughly 15 percent for each program.
January 7, 2013
WASHINGTON National health spending climbed to $2.7 trillion in 2011, or an average of $8,700 for every person in the country, but as a share of the economy, it remained stable for the third consecutive year, the Obama administration said Monday.
The rate of increase in health spending, 3.9 percent in 2011, was the same as in 2009 and 2010 the lowest annual rates recorded in the 52 years the government has been collecting such data.
WASHINGTON A sharp and surprisingly persistent slowdown in the growth of health care costs is helping to narrow the federal deficit, leaving budget experts trying to figure out whether the trend will last and how much the slower growth could help alleviate the countrys long-term fiscal problems. [...]
Health experts say they do not yet fully understand what is driving the lower spending trajectory. But there is a growing consensus that changes in how doctors and hospitals deliver health care as opposed to merely a weak economy are playing a role. Still, experts sharply disagree on where spending might be in future years, a question with major ramifications for the federal deficit, family budgets and the overall economy.
Part of the slowdown stems from the recession and the loss of income and wealth causing people to cut back on health care, Douglas W. Elmendorf, the director of the Congressional Budget Office, said last week. But he added that a significant part of the slowdown probably arises from structural changes in the health care system.
Union controlled hospitals. Nurses want to make $125 an hour, too, 30 holidays and 6 weeks of vacation thrown in for free. Cops everywhere are striking so they can get compensated for increased health costs.Well anyone who believes the ACA is gonna be better and cheaper is dumber than a box a rocks.
Nothing the Govt sticks its big fat nose in is ever better or cheaper. Its a mountain of red tape and paperwork.
The fucking Dems passed this POS bill all on their own. They never read the damned thing and we are now finding out just whats in it. Twenty one tax increases and who the hell know what else. We had this POS shoved down our throats by the Dems.
Anyone wonder why its not as advertized?? I sure don't.
Yes you can, by getting the government the hell out of it in the first place.
I don't know what reality you exist in, but Medicare does not work well. Medicare costs less because it undercuts doctors and hospitals for payments for services rendered. They make up that cost by charging the rest of us more. That is one of the reasons why health care costs are rising and a reason why an increasing number of doctors have stopped taking on additional Medicare patients.
