Kari posted:.Caribny, you have to let your audience know that while both per capita and aggregate spending on health care premium and services and drugs delivery have not gone on a decline, their rate of increase has slowed. Yes, the approach with Obamacare is not what you'd like given the realities of demand and supply and the need for incentives to innovate - the profit motive. It is however, a step in the direction of moving away from what we had prior to 2010. It needs fixing and a bipartisan approach.
Healthcare costs continue to soar. This is the problem with health insurance.
Neither the Democrats nor the GOP have developed a strategy to deal with this. The Dems are using subsidies and enhanced Medicaid to disguise this fact. The GOP peddle their usual fact free propaganda that "competition will cure all ills".
Until the government addresses the problem of soaring healthcare costs you will see more and more companies dropping out of the health exchanges, with only substandard ones remaining.
A huge complaint in NYS is from people who discover that their health exchange insurance has a very narrow network of providers. This forces them to pay out of pocket should they require access to quality tertiary level hospital care, in the event of a cancer, cardiac, or other serious health problem. Listen to WNPR. These are liberals who complain.