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The Trump Administration’s Own Data Says Obamacare Isn’t Imploding
President Trump and other Republicans have said repeatedly that one reason they have to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act is that the law is failing: Healthy people are abandoning the insurance marketplaces set up by the law, driving up costs and leading yet more people to drop insurance — a so-called “death spiral.” Many health insurance experts, however, have argued that those fears are overblown, and they recently got support from an unlikely source: the Trump administration itself.
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That's not the real problem the GOP has with it. As clearly shown over the past few months.
It's money. MONEY. MMMOOOOOONNNNEEEEYYYYY!!!
You wouldn't say that saving people's lives, or improving their quality of life, is more important than letting health insurance companies, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and of course their puppets in congress, make more money, would you? That would be outrageous!
It's very easy to show reports like this but to the average Joe, it's falling apart fast to them. When premiums have gone up from 150 bucks a month to almost 400 and the deductible has gone from 3,000 to 10,000 dollars it hurts, that's what average people are seeing. Sure some of them qualify for a subsidy, but not all states participated in subsidies and others have such requirements that much like social welfare programs just a dollar over thanks to that nickel raise pushes you out of the coverage area.