[quote=SK in CV]
No. It did not make medical care more expensive for a greater number of people. There is absolutely no evidence to support that claim. (Your personal experience may have been different. Your personal experience however, is not evidence of anything other than your experience.) The cost of medical care has increased since the law was passed, however there is no evidence that these increases are a result of the law. Costs increased before the law was passed. Medical insurance premiums have increased at half the rate of increases in the decade immediately before the law went into effect, and at the slowest rate in almost 3 decades.[/quote] The costs are still increasing AND if you check the years immediately prior to the implementation of the ACA, you will find that the rate of yearly increase in costs was dropping prior to the ACA. When the ACA was implemented, the rate of increase did not go further down.. though it did not seem to go up. I am pretty certain that the cost tracking does not take into account subsidies – since that appears from a different bucket (often SSDI).
Average number of people under subsidy – 87%.
Average subsidy $268/month or 72% of the monthly payment with individuals paying avg $105/mo. Without subsidies, premiums would be 2.5x higher.
