The Democratic talking point seems to be that this is all artificial for two reasons. (1) the Insurance companies are incompetent and low-balled the initial year's insurance price, so this is just catch-up and rates will go down in the future, (2) The health care system is broken and it doesn't matter what kind of system is out there all costs are out of control so don't blame this industry wide problem on the ACA.
When I point out problems with those lines of argument, they get livid.
It should be interesting to see if the MSM really starts to pick this up and what common voters start to say. It would be hard to blame this on Republicans, but I am now starting to see a lot of Dem's saying hey this was the Romney Republican program, (even though the Mass. law was passed by democrats), Romney signed it vetoing 8 section and the democratic controlled legislature overrode him on 6 sections he had vetoed.
Oddly, here in Alaska, the rate increase requested was a mere **48%**
Seems that just 1% of the insured are **40%** of the cost - all due to that tiny faction of the base....
And nobody saw this coming??