No, Obamacare is not making your insurance premiums go through the roof.
That's just what some insurers want you to think.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/22/1189149/-No-Obamacare-is-not-making-your-premiums-go-through-the-roof
It's the heart of right-wing conventional wisdom: Obamacare is going make insurance premiums for everybody skyrocket. The Wall Street Journal calls it "ObamaCare health-insurance sticker shock." The CEO of Aetna said "somebody has to pay for" insuring all Americans. Fox News trumpeted rising premiums for everyone.
As usual lately, conventional wisdom is having a big fail. Actually, according to a new report from the Obama administration, double-digit premium rate increases are falling. Dramatically. The researchers looked at 15 states that make requests for rate increases by insurers public, and saw rate increases plummet, at least in the individual plan market.
Since 2010, there has been a decline in the proportion of rate filings in which the requested increase is at or above the Affordable Care Act threshold of 10 percent. In 2010, 75 percent of rate filings requested increases of 10 percent or more, a proportion that dropped to 34 percent in 2012 (See Figure 1).
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Really, how dare any of us suggest that Barack Obama's promises about health care legislation should have anything to do with the *actual* health care legislation he offers after he is elected?!
Silly voters!
That's as nervy as suggesting that his promising to defend Social Security should mean NOT offering it up for cuts every chance he gets!
And you know it.
Had we the public option premiums would've still gone up because millions of uncovered people would have to be covered, and the main objection by people replying to this thread would've remained. 
Basically Obama achieved gradual a process. Not as good as promised, but better than nothing, and the eventuality will be end of the insurer monopoly. A bit slower than it happened in Canada but via a somewhat similar process. Still 25% or so of Canadian health coverage is private. Oh, and per capita health care costs in Canada have doubled in the past 30 years. So the simplistic objection by detractors here would even apply to Canada.
Big deal. Much to do about nothing. Outrage for the sake of outrage. Pepper some nice sound bytes in there, yay, forum points won.
and mandating that every American purchase their obscenely overpriced product from birth to death is not "gradual progress."
To claim that it is, is equivalent to proclaiming that the chocolate ration has been increased.
You are perhaps one of the most skilled purveyors of what I call "Third Way blase" that I have seen on these forums ("Yawn, it would have happened anyway." "You had to know this would happen." "Big deal. If you'd been paying attention you would have known the President intended to do that." "Outrage for the sake of outrage."
. However, your task of convincing Americans to yawn at a relentless parade of assaults and betrayals becomes more and more difficult as millions more of us find ourselves enraged, terrified, struggling, and impoverished at the hands of corporate Democrats who claim to be working on our behalf.
They set the so-called cap above then current industry wide profit margins, they gave the insurance companies carte blanche to squeeze as much as the market will bear. The only reason increases have slightly slowed is because their customers are simply reaching the break-point where it becomes cheaper to eat the penalty and drop out.
Did you pay any attention at all to the debates when this was all being created? Every bit of this was predicted in excruciating detail. Did you even notice when the original 15% cap was raised to 20% after the most profitable insurance company that year reported an 18% margin?
Have you read any of the industry's reports? Have you read the actual accounts related by actual people? Did you bother to read any of the replies to Joan's diary? Have you even read the replies or watched the videos in your own thread? Even the chart used in the original diary to "prove" this irrelevancy is shamelessly skewed to reflect the initial reaction to the passage of this idiocy.
They weren't increasing at that rate BEFORE the ACA.
and shilling to portay the entrenchment of these bloodsucking middlemen into the system as somehow a gift to the American people.
Your smearing of those who disprove the OP's absurd claims as "average shallow thinkers" doesn't exactly recommend your lectures about civility here, treestar.
