The problem is, the for-profit health insurance fuckers are still in the picture. Single-payer (the only system that makes sense, and the one every other 1st-world country uses) was
SOCIALISM!!!!! Dumb fucking teabaggers were whipped into a frenzy about "death panels" by Faux News and took to the streets. We're too dumb to demand a system that works, because the corporate media scares paranoid lunkheads with terms they don't understand.
And, as usual, there's more to the story.
This is only one study, and it was conducted by a company with ties to a health insurer.
Additionally, the increase in costs isn't across the board, and it doesn't apply to all states. Also co-pays, "bridges" and deductibles will go down.
And there is a lot that's right with Obamacare, including the elimination of preexisting conditions, and a requirement that these bastards use at least 80% of every premium dollar paid to be used on actual healthcare (or refund the difference). Children can stay on their parents' insurance until they're 26, contraception is covered 100%, no-cost yearly checkups, and 45,000,000 people who had no coverage finally will (we can agree that's a good thing, even if it doesn't apply to you personally, right)?
So it's a mixed bag. I'm not very happy with it, but it's better than what we had. Maybe if idiots across the country would stop hyperventilating every time "socialism" is spoken, we could start a real conversation and get a system that works right, particularly since "capitalism" is what the current fucked-up healthcare system is
all about. For example, check out what this guy takes in - and he's never healed a single person.
Blue Cross parent's CEO pay climbs to $12.9 million
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/artic...o-12-9-million
Wow. That's a lot of premium dollars right there. He must be some great lifesaving physician...oh right. He doesn't know the first thing about healing the sick or saving lives. He's doing a great job saving us from "government healthcare" and "socialism," I guess.
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