How much will obamacare increase your health insurance premium next year?

Northside Storm · Oct 7, 2012

Mr. Clutch said: ↑

By my calculations, it will cost me $200 per month more.

But what I'm worried about is that it's going to bankrupt the nation.
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As opposed to letting the uninsured go to emergency room constantly?

Heading for the emergency room
America’s health care is the costliest in the world, yet quality is patchy and millions are uninsured. Incentives for both patients and suppliers need urgent treatment

They know they are unlikely to be left to die in the streets. With the truly poor, the free-riders turn up at emergency rooms. This is hugely inefficient, because pricey late interventions and operations could very often have been avoided with a much smaller investment in preventive care. Insured people and taxpayers are forced to cross-subsidise such “uncompensated” and wasteful treatments to the tune of tens of billions of dollars per year.
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http://www.economist.com/node/13899647

If you have a problem with people "subsidizing" people's treatments, I suggest you get comfortable with the notion of letting people die. The system before Obamacare basically was the most inefficient subsidy there could be in healthcare.

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