“Disaster” sums up the skyrocketing premiums and lack of choice facing many of the 11 million people enrolled in the exchange plans. The plans are unaffordable, unless you’re a low earner getting a free ride.
ObamaCare enrollees aren’t the only people being clobbered. If you get insured at work — as 155 million people do — your deductibles are up a staggering 49 percent since 2011 thanks to ObamaCare. Part-timers are working fewer hours, so business owners can avoid the law’s employer mandate. Taxpayers are on the hook for some 50 new taxes.
Seniors get hit the hardest. More than half of ObamaCare’s costs are paid for by cutting Medicare, resulting in stingy care for seniors.
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Clinton promises voters that she’ll make ObamaCare better with billions of dollars of extra spending. But she’s not going to remove the mandates causing people to lose work hours or their jobs. As for the regulations suffocating doctors, count on Hillary to pile on more.
Worst of all, Clinton wants to expand Medicare to people in their 50s. Seniors are already having a hard time finding a doctor to treat them for Medicare’s low rates. Adding millions of “50-somethings” trying to see the same doctors will make it impossible to get an appointment.
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