Phew! What an attack on the American people when you’re really talking about the usual miscreants who want everything free - not the majority of Americans who work hard and have employer-based health care. But you’re right about one thing: no one wants to pay for their Obamacare because no one in their right mind wants to pay $2000-4000 dollars a month with huge deductibles. Americans are funny that way.
1. coverage for pre-existing conditions
2. unlimited annual and lifetime coverage
3. few limits on medical treatments covered
Requiring insurers to carry those three things are the biggest factors that drive up the cost of health insurance in this country. Mandating companies to operate this way is also one of the most idiotic things you can possibly have in any sector of the economy.
So if you even have strong support for them among some of the most conservative people you'll meet anywhere, you can be damn sure there is a consensus among Americans to maintain a dysfunctional health insurance system that will eventually collapse under its own weight.
So, yeah ... Jim Noble is right on this one.
...no one wants to pay for their Obamacare because no one in their right mind wants to pay $2000-4000 dollars a month with huge deductibles.
Based on past jobs and my experience with COBRA I don’t think employer-provided insurance is any less expensive than in the individual market (for similar coverage).
It’s just that the employee doesn’t see the whole cost and the employer gets tax advantages that individuals don’t.