Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Obamacare, what's your stand? 

Michael Tanner wrote a review on Obamacare in his post "Obamacare: Nothing to Brag About". Michael brought up the attention on how this plan may ruin the lives of many people in the United States. Instead of the promise by Obama to lower costs of health insurance, Michael Tanner informed us on the fact that health insurance premiums are slowly rising. "Healthy young people in the individual or small-group insurance markets can look forward to rate increases averaging 169 percent." As a young student, maybe working at a part time job, there's no way we could afford insurance with that kind of increase. Michael Tanner states that, "80 percent of young adults aged 18–29 not eligible for Medicaid will face higher costs, and that 20- to 29-year-olds on the individual market not eligible for subsidies will see their premiums increase 42 percent." How could a young person, like myself, afford insurance at such high cost? Many of us barely get through the day, and others live pay check to pay check. Such increase would devastate families, therefore it is "nothing to brag about".

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