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I think the pro-Obama camp has a point when they say, if your plan went up by X dollars, that doesn't mean that every cent of that is due to Obamacare. Health insurance costs were going up faster than inflation way before Obama took office.
That being said, there will be significant increases due specifically to Obamacare. Part of this is because Obamacare mandates significant increases in coverage. If your plan covers more, you have to pay more. Some of our increases will be to pay for the subsidies of others that Obamacare mandates.
No rational person can deny that Obamacare will increase our costs. My problem is, our Dear Leader claimed that the average family would see a $2500 decrease in out-of-pocket costs. And many here will not hold him accountable for that egregious lie. You can't cover millions more people, and increase coverage for everyone who is insured, and lower costs. Real life doesn't work that way. That may sound great in the faculty room at Harvard, but it doesn't fly in the real world. This is what happens when you elect someone who cannot differentiate between hypothesizing in the Harvard faculty room, and what works where the rubber hits the road.
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