Health Premiums Climbed $2,976 Since 2009, Despite Obama Vow to Cut them $2,500

Investor's Business Daily ^ | 08/23/2013 | John Merline

[IBD editorial writer]

The average employer-provided family health insurance premiums have climbed $2,976 since 2009, according to an annual Kaiser Family Foundation survey released this week. They're up $3,671 compared with the year before President Obama took office. That's despite Obama's repeated promises that the health care reform law he championed would cut premiums by $2,500 in his first term.

And while annual premium increases have moderated over the past two years, that's due to trends in the insurance market largely unrelated to ObamaCare, and trends the law could actually reverse.

[from occupied ga]

Health Premiums Climbed $2,976 Since 2009, Despite Obama Vow to Cut them $2,500

IBD tells it like its is. 0 lied (now there's a surprise) IT DOESN"T MATTER. We're still stuck with the wretched law, and 0 is still presiden't AND the 51% of the voting morons who voted for him still worship the ground he walks on the the excrement that dribbles out of his mouth.

[rightwingcrazy]

Well, in his defense, sea levels apparently have begun to drop, as promised.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2844086/posts

He has yet to take credit for it, perhaps out of humility.

[TArcher]

“COMMERCE BETWEEN MASTER AND SLAVE IS DESPOTISM”
—Thomas Jefferson

[allendale]

The President of the United States is an ignorant man. He has no idea how wealth is created. He borrowed and spent $6 trillion dollars and printed trillions more. In his mind he has created prosperity. He probably does believe that you can provide state of the art health care to 50 million non productive people at no cost and by dictum. The American people will suffer a very long time as a price for their delusional politically correct voting habits.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Quinn’s First Law:

Liberalism always generates the exact opposite of it’s stated intent.

In this case, almost to the penny.

[IMR 4350]

Wanna bet the Obama adm claims the cost was projected to go up $5000-$6000 but since it’s only gone up $2900 he’s cut cost close to if not above the $2500?

Since the “jobs saved” worked so well with the idiots, I predict they will use something similar again.

[grania]

The President of the US is an ignorant man

To me, the worst kind are those who are ignorant AND stupid. An ignorant man does not know the issues at hand. A stupid man knows what the issues are, but does not study and evaluate the facts before drawing conclusions. Thus, on issues for which Obama is not ignorant he's stupid.

And what about the RINOs and globalist ptb who would rather run one of their own and lose than cede power to true constitutional conservatives, who can and will articulate the issues at hand? The RINOs and globalist profit whores are neither ignorant nor stupid....they're self-centered, elitist, and profiting from the destruction of the US.

What a choice.

[kevkrom]

He's only off by about -220%. What's the big deal? </sarc>

[allendale]

Machiavelli described three types of men. The first and best were men who would evaluate a problem, properly analyze it and devise a rational solution. The second would be a man who when confronted with the same problem does not fully understand or is able to devise a solution on their own, but when instructed grasps the solution and becomes effectual. The third and worse kind is the man who neither understands, solves or is capable of receiving instruction. Obama is in the third category. Also such people are often narcissistic and arrogant.