But not only have prices for care exceeded inflation virtually every year since then—something it’s done for decades as utilization rates increased—but satisfaction has plummeted. In every aspect of healthcare other than nurses, Americans’ satisfaction has declined by double digits. Health insurance companies’ satisfaction rates are down 11% since 2010, while hospitals, doctors, and pharmaceutical companies are down by 14%, 15% and 21% respectively.
That’s a pretty grim record for Obamacare: High costs and unhappy customers. But hey, sometimes you have to break some eggs in order to make an omelet, and that’s the price we pay to live longer and healthier… Except, we’re not doing that.
According to the American Journal of Public Health, American life expectancy, after having increased almost every single year between 1950 and 2010, flatlined after Obamacare and actually began to decline around 2014. Plus, Americans’ life expectancy has fallen even further behind that of our European peers under Obamacare. And the icing on the cake? Our health, the basic issue upon which all of this is supposed to be based…has gotten worse!
So, Obamacare has been a complete disaster on every single front. At least for the average American.
For health insurance companies, however, it’s been a boon. Since Obamacare was implemented, their stocks have grown on average 708%, while the general market, which has been pumped up by trillion-dollar superstars like Amazon, Tesla, and Facebook, has increased by only 525%. And the health insurance CEOs do pretty well, too...
Let's take inventory of how many GOP sponsored bills that have been passed out of the U.S. House of Reps to totally repeal Obamacare in Trump's first year of this second presidential term.
It's a sad number.
Sounds like a easy GOP win, what’s their plan?