{"id":380,"date":"2024-10-11T12:44:32","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T12:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/?p=380"},"modified":"2024-10-11T12:46:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T12:46:16","slug":"obamacare-was-a-lie-million-lost-healthcare-coverage-and-premiums-skyrocketed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/obamacare-was-a-lie-million-lost-healthcare-coverage-and-premiums-skyrocketed\/","title":{"rendered":"OBAMACARE WAS A LIE, MILLIONS LOST HEALTHCARE COVERAGE AND PREMIUMS SKYROCKETED"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>New Study: Obamacare Caused Millions To Lose Insurance Plans, Premiums To Skyrocket<\/h1>\n<header class=\"sec_header\">\n<div class=\"heateor_sss_sharing_container heateor_sss_horizontal_sharing\" data-heateor-ss-offset=\"0\" data-heateor-sss-href=\"https:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2024\/10\/10\/new-study-obamacare-caused-millions-to-lose-insurance-plans-premiums-to-skyrocket\/\">\n<div class=\"heateorSssClear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"content_holder\">\n<div id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-381\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Screenshot-543.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"929\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Screenshot-543.png 929w, https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Screenshot-543-300x189.png 300w, https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Screenshot-543-768x484.png 768w, https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Screenshot-543-624x393.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 929px) 100vw, 929px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-featured-image hidden-xs\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-data-content post_style_zk\">\n<p><span id=\"more-129382\"><\/span>Obamacare caused millions of Americans to lose their insurance plans while premiums skyrocketed, according to a new study from the Committee to Unleash Prosperity.<\/p>\n<p>OBAMA LIED ABOUT EVERYTHING, AND PROMISED TO CHANGE AMERICA, ONLY FOOLS BELIEVED HIM AND NOW EVERYONE IS SUFFERING THE HEALTHCARE MESS.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-382\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/obama_is_a_dunce.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/obama_is_a_dunce.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/obama_is_a_dunce-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former President Barack Obama\u2019s Affordable Care Act (ACA) sought to make health insurance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ehealthinsurance.com\/resources\/affordable-care-act\/understanding-obamacare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more accessible<\/a>, all while reducing premiums and the government\u2019s budget shortfall, and allowing Americans to keep their preferred medical providers. However, individual market premiums surged, hundreds of billions of dollars were added to cumulative U.S. deficits and seven million consumers had their plans canceled following the ACA\u2019s passage, the Committee to Unleash Prosperity <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/778464791\/The-Falsehoods-of-Obamacare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study<\/a> found.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObamacare has failed in every particular \u2013 it failed to make health care more affordable; it failed to improve the health of Americans; it piled on an enormous amount of additional debt on taxpayers; it has principally enriched massive insurance company conglomerates, and it now serves as a major impediment to real heath care reforms that would empower patients and doctors,\u201d Phil Kerpen, American Commitment and Unleash Prosperity president and one of the study\u2019s co-authors, told the DCNF. \u201cAs we show in this paper, every single promise that was made to pass this law turned out to be false.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Obama <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/BL-HEB-3020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">claimed<\/a> the ACA would slow the growth in U.S. healthcare spending and \u201cbring down premiums by $2,500 for the typical family,\u201d but individual market premiums more than <a href=\"https:\/\/aspe.hhs.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/private\/pdf\/256751\/IndividualMarketPremiumChanges.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">doubled<\/a> from 2013 to 2017 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/affordable-care-act\/issue-brief\/deductibles-in-aca-marketplace-plans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deductibles<\/a> soared, according to the study.<\/p>\n<p>The disparity between ACA advocates\u2019 promises and the legislation\u2019s actual effect on costs is largely due to a failure to implement the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbpp.org\/cadillac-tax-letter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cCadillac tax,\u201d<\/a> which was meant to use the proceeds from a tax on employer-sponsored insurance plans to prevent increases in private health insurance premiums, according to the study.\u00a0\u00a0The tax was delayed for eight years due to a lack of political support, and was delayed again in 2015 and 2018 before Congress repealed it outright in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>As Americans grappled with rising premiums and deductibles, the number of medical providers willing to accept coverage plummeted, with at least seven million consumers having their plans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/media\/2013\/12\/politifact-lie-of-the-year-if-you-like-your-healthcare-plan-you-can-keep-it-179521\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">canceled<\/a> in the fall of 2013 because they did not comply with the ACA\u2019s new mandates, the study found. The wave of cancellations occurred despite Obama <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/fact-checker\/wp\/2013\/10\/30\/obamas-pledge-that-no-one-will-take-away-your-health-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">saying<\/a>in June 2009 that \u201cif you like your health-care plan, you\u2019ll be able to keep your health-care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Obama also claimed that the ACA <a href=\"https:\/\/obamawhitehouse.archives.gov\/economy\/reform\/deficit-reducing-health-care-reform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">would<\/a> be a \u201cdeficit-reducing health care reform,\u201d but the study found most of the tax increases that were going to be used to help fund the program have been repealed, and that student loan provisions embedded in the ACA had losses of $32 billion as of 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. national debt stood at roughly $35.72 trillion as of Oct. 8, up from roughly $13 trillion in the first quarter of 2010 when the ACA was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/books\/NBK241401\/#:~:text=On%20March%2023%2C%202010%2C%20President,over%204%20years%20and%20beyond.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">passed<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/fiscaldata.treasury.gov\/datasets\/debt-to-the-penny\/debt-to-the-penny\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to data from the U.S. Treasury and <a href=\"https:\/\/fred.stlouisfed.org\/series\/GFDEBTN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The study also identified several additional \u201centicing promises\u201d that were untrue, including claims that the ACA would be reserved for U.S. citizens. However, ample Obamacare insurance subsidies now go to insure people who immigrated illegally, as the Biden-Harris administration expanded ACA access in May to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2024\/05\/03\/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-expands-health-coverage-to-daca-recipients\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">include<\/a>\u00a0members of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.<\/p>\n<p>Obamacare also drove employers to move full-time workers into part-time positions in order to avoid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cigna.com\/employers\/insights\/informed-on-reform\/employer-mandate#:~:text=Employers%20must%20offer%20health%20insurance%20that%20is%20affordable%20and%20provides,known%20as%20the%20employer%20mandate.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ACA rules<\/a> requiring companies provide 95% of full-time employees health insurance given they employ fifty or more people for more than 30 hours per week, the report found.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Affordable Care Act (ACA) has made healthcare in the United States anything but affordable,\u201d Peter C. Earle, senior economist at the American Institute for Economic Research, told the DCNF. \u201cA comparison between what was promised in the lead-up to the passage of the ACA in 2010, and how those assurances have actually played out, is well within the ability of any third grader. Yet there is a curious lack of motivation among intelligentsia in much of the media and virtually all of academia to point out how expensive the ACA has made healthcare for US citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Study: Obamacare Caused Millions To Lose Insurance Plans, Premiums To Skyrocket Obamacare caused millions of Americans to lose their insurance plans while premiums skyrocketed, according to a new study from the Committee to Unleash Prosperity. 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