Like many American families. Will and Tina Clark signed up for Obamacare when their employer shut down its group insurance plan. They bought a similar plan, believing promises that they'd be able to keep their own doctors. We had primary care. A children's doctor, pediatrician. OBGYN, and then a specialist, and one by one. When we went to utilize those doctors set up appointments for different times, we needed them, those doctors said. Yeah, we don't take that plan. Not only that in the Dallas metro area, they had trouble finding any doctors who took their plan. I never found another obey that would take it.
So I just went without as they paid their monthly premium. Other cost. Mounted will needs an expensive shot to treat a medical condition. It was like 20 dollars to 50 dollars. Cop-pay a month on the group plan under the Afford Health Care Act plan that CO-PAY jumped to 150
A month.
Eventually, the couple left their nonprofit employer. Since they didn't have jobs. Obamacare dropped them. It wasn't the safety net they expected, and the Clarks aren't alone. Jennifer Huffman from North Carolina writes. Overall, it is still cheaper for us to be self-pay and pay the penalty than it would be for us to carry insurance. And my prescriptions are cheaper now using coupons than it was when I had healthcare coverage. Stephen Kurtz from Virginia writes. Our family insurance was canceled, forced onto Obamacare, lost my doctor premiums up, deductible up prescriptions not covered. Things are not looking good for people who are enrolled in Obamacares exchanges because the premiums are going up by 70 percent in some states, the benefits are getting thinner and thinner so that sick people are having a harder time accessing the care that they need. Michael Cannon, who studied the law for years, agrees with Bill clinton's description of the current situation of a sudden, 25 million more people health care, and then the people are out there busting that sometimes 60 hours a week.
Wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half. Its crazies thing in the world, obamacare's insurance exchanges are losing major insurance companies, leaving many US counties with only one or two health plan choices. Add to that an expected 25 percent increase in premiums next year. So what's creating this situation? It's a combination of insurance companies working to fulfill obamacare's promises and not enough healthy people signing up. Now, it's costing more than expected to care for those who are enrolled. And even when premiums are hiked by 5060, even 70 percent.
It's still not enough. What has happened in Obamacare is, the federal government said. Well, we're going to rob Peter in order to provide health carers for Paul.
The problem is they didn't rob Peter enough and so the insurance companies aren't getting the sums of money they would need to fulfill all of obamacare's promises. You turn over for me. Moody Good Boy. Rick Hamettt is a veterinarian practicing in rural Virginia. His insurance premiums have more than tripled when the Supreme Court of Obamacare I was paying two and 32 a month, so we've gone from 200 and 32 to 700 and 40.
In the four years since the Supreme Court has.
Made the Affordable Care Act the law of the land. Those extra costs create a ripple effect beyond Hammett. For me, as an individual at 6 thousand dollars a year, I'm now paying. I can't put back into the local economy. I can't spend it at food line. I can't spend it at seven. -eleven, it's going into this.
Machine a healthcare machine that appears to be crumbling under its own weight. Trevi Troy served as Deputy Secretary of Health under George W. Bush. The private market is better at getting people covered. The employers are at getting keep people covered and we should be wary of policies that try and take people away from employer spots of care and move them into governmenting forms of care. I think the biggest thing that bothers me with Obamacare was the way it was sold.
That the American people were just absolutely misled. Troy says, what really worries him is where the nation is heading when all of the baby boomers will have retired around when the Medicare Hospital Trust band goes bankrupt, when the Medicaid annual costs over trillion dollars a year when as some predicted, including some who worked on the ACA in the Obama White House predicted that employers largely get out of the game. If all these factors come together, we're going to have a real health carers financing quest crisis in this country. The Clerk family is once again on an employer sponsored plan and no longer depends on Obamacare. I was never so happy to get off anything and all my life just because it was just a hassle. I mean, and not knowing, you know, like, if something happens to your child, you or not having that being able to call a doctor and get an appointment and get in and not be faced with thousands of dollars worth of medical bills. I mean, that's a peace of mind that basically was stripped away. Open enrollment begins. November One St. As insurance companies pull out of marketplaces, 100 of thousands of Americans are left searching for coverage.
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