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Originally Posted by r00t
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Obama care has been detrimental for my former employer and my current one. Our premiums are twice that of last year's while the benefits were slashed.
But what do you expect when corporations ghost wrote the bill?
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That's the employer pushing you onto the exchanges because they don't want the cost.
Our's have gone up every single year for the past ten years. When you break down the causes, most of it is because hospitals have been allowed to merge all across the country. There are 33% less hospitals than 5 years ago, meaning less competition, etc.
Another big part of it is that new testing procedures such as DNA sequencing in the office, etc are covered when they never were in the past.
New very expensive equipment and doctors prescribing them too frequently, such as MRI's, using surgery machines, etc. Mainly because we demand them to.
The new requirements of Obamacare add a small amount to this as well, but its no where near all of the other factors.
When it comes down to it, costs continue to rise and all of us demand the best possible (meaning most expensive) care available in the modern world. Someone has to pay for that.
04-25-2014, 05:07 PM
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