President Obama said his health plan would cut the cost of family premiums by up to $2,500 a year. Instead, premiums have gone up by almost $5,000 since Obamacare passed. [Kaiser Family Foundation]
Nearly two-thirds of Obamacare Exchange plans lost over $2.2 billion just in 2014. [Mercatus Center, April 22, 2016]
Health insurance companies are fleeing the Obamacare Exchanges. Five states, one-third of all counties, and 19% of Americans eligible for Obamacare will have only one Exchange insurer this year. [New York Times, Aug. 19, 2016], [Kaiser Family Foundation, Aug. 28, 2016], [McKinsey on Healthcare, Aug. 18, 2016]
Premiums have skyrocketed across the nation, with a national average of almost 25%, with some states experiencing rate increases up to 70%. In Iowa, one plan got a 43% increase approved. In Florida, the individual market will see an average rate increase of 19%. In Pennsylvania, at least three plans requested rate increases over 40%. And the average rate requested in Minnesota is 54%. [ACA Signups], [Health Insurance], [Miami Herald], [Health Insurance]
More than half the Exchange plans have deductibles of $3,000 or more. [The New York Times, Nov. 14, 2015]
Deductibles are going up in 2017, some as high as $7,000 per person on the cheapest" Obamacare plans. [Investors Business Daily May 13]
People are going without needed medical care because they can't afford these amounts. [The Boston Globe, Nov. 16, 2015]
Most of the people getting covered under Obamacare are getting it through the government run Medicaid program. [Heritage Foundation]
Almost 12 million more Americans were enrolled in Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Plan since October 2013. [Obamacarefacts.com]
By 2026 one-fourth of our population will be on Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program. [Congressional Budget Office, March 2016]
Numerous studies show that Medicaid enrollees can't find doctors. [Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General, Dec. 2014]
Medicaid beneficiaries have worse health compared to everyone else. Add to that higher death rates, misuse of the emergency room and higher overall costs. [How to Fix Medicaid National Affairs, 2014]. Medicaid beneficiaries have worse health compa
Obamacare has reduced pay for workers in small businesses and reduced employment by more than 350,000 jobs nationwide. [American Action Forum, Sept. 9, 2016]
The employer mandate raised the minimum cost of hiring a full-time worker to $10.30/hour for larger employers, without increasing take-home pay for workers. [Heritage Foundation]
State and local officials have conceded that Obamacare forced municipal governments to cut hours of part-time employees. [The New York Times, Feb. 20, 2014]
University of Wisconsin cut back student workers' hours as a result of Obamacare. [Madison, Sept. 27, 2016]