Another year, another increase. The Obama Administration confirmed double-digit Obamacare premium hikes for 2017.
While President Obama and Democrats have the audacity to tout Obamacare’s “ success," the cold hard facts and figures prove the opposite is true. Every single day Obamacare is making the quality of health care in this country worse and next year alone, benchmark Obamacare premiums are set to increase 25 percent on average for states that use the federal healthcare.gov marketplace.
The President and Democrats want to throw more tax dollars at the problem and want to pass more laws to prop up Obamacare, but the last thing we need is more government involvement in health care. American patients and taxpayers cannot afford Obamacare and clearly this law was doomed from the start. These latest price hikes prove now more than ever that we must ditch this broken, unaffordable law.
It’s time for a better way to put patients, families, and doctors back in charge of medical decisions. President Obama and Democrats must put their pride and politics aside so that we can start over with a Better Way—a step-by-step plan to give every American access to quality, affordable health care.