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Originally Posted by PaulS
If you work for a larger employer, you're probably self insured and the new mandates that have been already put in place didn't impact the cost that much. Supposedly there is a long article in Time mag. about how costs at hospitals are out of control - and that has nothing to do w/Obama care.
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First, I'm self-employed. I don't have the luxury of "working for a larger employer" and like the millions of other small businesses in this country, I can shop rates but do not have the luxury of increasing employee contribution like what happens with those "larger employers". Also, concerning those larger employers and how "the new mandates... didn't impact the cost that much", are you forgetting the whole part of mandate allowing offspring to be on their parent's insurance through 26 years old? I guarantee something like that had a major impact for self-insured businesses.
Second, that article in Time about out of control costs at the hospital, this was my #1 complaint about Obamacare... it did nothing to address end costs even though Obama promised rates would come down. The short-sightedness of Obama and the Democrats when shoving this load of horse crap down our throats completely overlooked "WHY" costs are so high - bs malpractice suits, ER's being used as primary care clinics, unlimited health care for illegals.
This whole friggin government is so focused on "how do we enact legislation" that they completely ignore "why is it needed".