..In health care we have had very material improvements in technology -- whether it be pacemakers, diagnostics such as MRI and Ultrasound machines, tests of various sorts and similar.

But in Health Care costs have risen at an outrageous rate for so-called "similar" capabilities rather than both price coming down and capability going up.

Why?

Simple -- monopoly controls by the various providers.

Steve Liesman is once again saying that "the reason we have rising costs is that we're living longer."

Horse****.

The reason we have rising costs is that the companies involved in providing these technologies have constructed a business model predicated on extracting the maximum amount of money from the economy and they are prohibiting the usual economic forces that result in price collapses as technology improves from occurring by imposing force on you via government.

..The closest plan is $286.67 a month, or more than 189% more.  This woman will pay $3,440 for her coverage, but the price pre-Obamacare is $1,189.  Again, if she uses the policy she will spend $1,200 more on deductibles, but under Obamacare she will spend $2,251 more on premiums and thus she will lose $1,000 if she needs health care.

That means the 27 year old woman will spend 44% more under Obamacare if she uses health care and a stunning 189% more if she is healthy and does not need to use health care during that year.

Savings?  Where?

These are actual policies you can check on your own at ehealthinsurance.com -- this entire act is a raw example of financial rape that outright screws essentially everyone.

The only people who will "win" are those who get subsidies.  But stealing from one person to give to another doesn't lower cost as you can see, it in fact raises cost because you have connected demand to an infinite source of money!

As such only unsubsidized comparisons of price are valid, and when you look there what you find is that Obamacare is an outright disaster -- for everyone.

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Wow, sounds like the .gov should step in a do something about that!  

Those terrible capitalist at it again.

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Like someone said, we have had Socialized medicine for a while and that pushed up costs to the person that pays.  Now we are forcing everyone to enter the Socialized system to reduce the costs caused by our Socialized system.