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Old 26-09-2017, 14:45   #2190
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Re: U.S President: Donald Trump

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Originally Posted by Mick View Post
I am failing to see, how the current Administration is responsible for the increases, when they were already rising sharply in the previous Obama Administration, well before Trump took office.

The State of Arizona saw increases over 100% last year, before November 8th Election. My own American friends, saw massive jumps as early as 2015, how can the steep rises be attributed to Trump, specifically when he was not in government ?

Either way, the lack of the coming together approach in Congress, in that a whole bunch of Senators will vote down a bill, no matter what, because of who is in the White House and I accept it was like this for Obama too, but to not want to do the job expected of them by the American people, it's sad.
He is just saying that this year the uncertainty will also cause premiums to raise. There were large increases before relating to that. Even Obama has said there are flaws that need to be worked on, mostly how they balance the coverage of sick/healthy people. They didn't expect as many unhealthy people needing healthcare amongst the insured pool.

The Republicans have enough senators to pass the bill. They can't find a compromise they all agree on.

You mention cost increases but what could be done to fix that? What they have now took a lot of out of Obama presidency as it is. Health care is hard and it's expensive. Every Republican plan has weakened protection for pre-existing conditions and would have priced out over people. Your friends for example would likely have only benefited if they didn't have pre-existing conditions they need covered and don't use Medicaid.

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