Health insurance premiums have risen more after Obamacare than the average premium increases over the eight years before it became law, according to the private health exchange eHealthInsurance.The individual market for health insurance has seen premiums rise by 39 percent since February 2013, eHealth reports. Without a subsidy, the average individual premium is now $274 a month. Families have been hit even harder with an average increase of 56 percent over the same period — average premiums are now $663 per family, over $426 last year.Between 2005 and 2013, average premiums for individual plans increased 37 percent and average family premiums were upped 31 percent. So they have risen faster under Obamacare than in the previous eight years.
Egypt
Israel
Syria
Russia
China
Iran
Obamacare
Gitmo
Iraq
Afghanistan
Weakening of NATO
Ukraine
Japan
Israel
Partisan divide in the USA
Racial divide in the USA
Skyrocketing national debt
Dominating debt service (now $415b/year)
Moribund economy
Lack of industrial growth
Growing Hopelessness
Military shrinking below compulsory needs
Where will this end?
Is the american populace smart enough to go Republican in 2014 and then again in 2016?
Will it make a difference?
Or are these the opening years of a new descent to a new dark age?
Americans breathing in the US these days are not the ones who made the country what it became. We all know this. I arrived in DC in 1967, and I can hardly recognize what I see. Yes, you could not have a bite after 8 pm and if you stayed any longer they would put the chairs upside down on the tables. The only places to attend concerts and other events were the Lisner Auditorium (G. Washington University) and the DAR. But when the European sophistication and way of life hit us, most of the Puritan work ethics slowly went down. Big companies avoided paying taxes by improving their business and creating more jobs. Now we can only see monopolies (flying is a nightmare) and they send their money to tax free heavens. Something broke down during these forty years, personal values went out the window, mainly personal responsibility. I come from a country where entitlement sank the ship, and I'm afraid we are following the same route. But American Communists and Socialists should be happy because they are watching their dream become a reality. We already knew what would happen. Can you believe that when I asked a friend of mine who proudly advertises he is a far leftist, how he can still believe that after the corruption of the Kremlin and the widespread misery of the population? He answered very emphatically: That is not the way it should have been!
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