Well when people aren't allowed to shop around and more insurance companies getting out of offering for those who choose the ACA insurance they can charge what they want with no repercussions. Also didn't you hear that the insurance company's said that the folks that choose ACA where sicker than they thought.
We both know that it's BS, but they believe that people will believe anything their told, just like most politicians do.
I don't necessarily belive that government should be involved in insurance, but something has to be done to try and reign in the insurance and medical costs, but I really have no idea how that can be accomplished without government oversight and I don't think anyone really wants that.
Unfortunately, that's the only answer. The original problem with healthcare was providers themselves.........doctors , hospitals.......raising prices unconciably. Then insurance companies stepped in a nd created HMO's .......and promised to reign in those "greedy doctors" by managing your healthcare like a business.
About 20 years ago the dialogue about how autocratic and profit-driven the "healthcare" insurance companies had become.....got really intense. They had become far worse than those "greedy" doctors.
Insurance companies have the largest group of lobbyists on K Street in D.C. They finance many political campaigns with an understanding that they will do business as they wish..........and that healthcare is not a basic human right, like it is in all other countries.
We just watched the insurance companies win again.........Big time.
This is also the only nation where your "healthcare" is tied to your employer. They love that , because it creates a quiet and subservient workforce.,......afraid to lose their healthcare. Insurance companies love it too, ..captive market.....
Of course they want to keep government out of it..........they can run it like a profit-and-loss business.......and worry about the financial health of your wallet......and if you lose that.....they can "slice" you off as a bad financial investment....now go and apply for government assistance..........
But if you think that healthcare is a basic human right......then being subject to a system of laws , advocacy and fairness.....means you must have government oversight.......
Unfortunately the propaganda machine has convinced everyone that ......our...... government is Incompetent in everything they touch.....
Except for the military.....I guess..