Editor’s Note – The many patriots who stood shoulder to shoulder and fought the long and weary battle to stop ObamaCare will be the first to tell you that ObamaCare has no chance of living up to it’s promises. With the media entirely in the tank for the Democrats on this issue, the voice of reason was minimized when it mattered and now we suffer the consequences.
Now that many Americans are beginning to feel the effects of this disasterous legislation in their wallets, will this strengthens the case for a 100% repeal of ObamaCare? Hard to say, but the true cost is yet to be seen.
Heritage Foundation
President Obama and his supporters have said that one of the major benefits of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act would be a drop in health insurance premiums. But a new Hewitt Associates study shows that insurance costs will continue to rise for 2011.
The study projects an 8.8 percent average premium increase for employers, compared with a 6.9 percent rate jump in 2010. Additionally, employee contributions toward health coverage are expected to soar by $2,209, or 22.5 percent. This is up 12.4 percent from 2010, when employees contributed $1,966, the study said.
“Employers can expect 2011 health care cost increases to be at their highest levels in five years,” the study said. This report and other recent health economic projections have essentially obliterated the claim that health insurance costs would drop with passage of Obamacare.
In fact, proponents of the health care law have been quick to reverse course on other promises. Ben Smith pointed out in Politico that groups like The Herndon Alliance—whose partners include AARP, AFL-CIO, SEIU, Health Care for America Now, MoveOn and La Raza—have been coaching Obamacare supporters to avoid saying “the law will reduce costs and deficit.”
The President has admitted that health care costs would rise “as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care—at the margins that’s going to increase our costs, we knew that. We didn’t think that we were going to cover 30 million people for free.”
This is a far cry from the $2,500 savings the President was predicting during the 2008 presidential campaign before Obamacare became a reality. Since its passage, evidence continues to mount that the new law fails to live up to its many promises.
Read More – http://blog.heritage.org/2010/10/04/side-effects-obamacare-fails-to-halt-rising-premiums/
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The longest-tenured writer at BizPac Review, Tom grew up in Maryland before moving to Central Florida as a young teen. It is in the Sunshine State that he honed both his passion for politics and his writing skills.
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