Obamacare Fact Check: Two Years Later

Two years of Obamacare. Senate Democrats promised it would lower costs, lower premiums, cover everyone, and protect Medicare. Instead? Twice the cost, higher premiums, 23 million people left out, and $500 billion cut from Medicare. http://nrsc.org

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[Donna Crane]

My 40 yr old son, pre-existing condition, lost job w/insurance3 yrs ago. Has another job, but it has no insurance there &after checking 3 companies, quotes of $1200-$1600mo & very high deductible,but all three "excluded" his acute pancreatitis & high blood pressure. Now covered by ObamaCare, has an affordable monthly payment of $188 mo +$25 copays,and RX plan so he can get the medications that keep him out of the hospital and working.Kept same doctors,has seen specialists, had MRI, blood tests.

[Donna Crane]

Small business owner with 20 employees told me she got $6000 rebate from her insurance company for overpayment. She proudly said she was able with that money to pay her employees share of their coverage for them.....and for the first time in 10 years her new premiums went down instead of up.

[psovegeta]

lol I don't trust the federal government with even more money to manage. Especially since we're at about a 10 trillion dollar debt. Obamacare itself IS a type of health insurance because I pay money for a service, doesn't matter if it's government funded or private sector. In Obamacare's case, I have no say so. Thats not my only concern though, under Obamacare, the federal government can start building a database on US citizens that Bush's Real ID act was supposed to accomplish.

[massmanute]

There is no true mandate requiring you to buy health insurance. You must, however, pay a financial cost if you don't buy health insurance. That cost, by the way, is only a fraction of the cost of buying insurance... really more of a symbolic cost that anything else, so you are getting off easy if you don't buy health insurance, especially considering that in taking that course you are shifting financial responsibility and risk from yourself to society as a whole.

[Mario Spencer]

I'm sorry you were mistaken, I'm not saying I am receiving information from Fox News. In fact, I concur with doing your own research. So if anyone needs to do their own research instead of listening to the lame stream media, it's the NRSC. I'm sorry that the government as a whole, not Obama individually, has ruined your medicare. You may find a correlation between medicare cuts and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act but a correlation does not give us a cause and effect.

[kristigator]

Wait..I thought Obama wanted to stop those greedy insurance companies?? THIS LAW has rounded up MILLIONS of FORCED consumers for those greedy insurance companies...how ignorant can you liberals be??

[kristigator]

The ONLY reason SCOTUS declared it "Constitutional" is because the Solicitor General argued it was a "tax" not a penalty. Remember, the American people were PROMISED that it was NOT A TAX! Even today the democrats are trying to change the terminology. If it's NOT a tax..then it would be unConstitutional! ..You can't have it both ways!

[kristigator]

You don't need Fox News to tell you anything..perhaps doing your own research instead of listening to the lame stream media. Medicare WAS cut and effective 1/1/12 monthly Medicare premiums INCREASED and services provided DECREASED..I know, I am on Medicare! Medicare Advantage will no longer exist 1/1/13...Who is trying to throw grandma and the disabled off the cliff? The Democrats!