[TheRealThing]

Its not in affect but yet everyone on here is complaining about there premiums raising?

It IS in effect. It was in effect as of March 21, 2010. Parts, of the bill to end all bills, are to come on line gradually. Insurance companies know in 2014 they will be forced to enroll over 30 million new customers, who don't pay for a thing they get. Everything is handed to them by the government.

Therefore in anticipation of the avalanche of non payers coming at them and, in an effort to avoid bankruptcy, they were forced to begin assessing alarmingly high rate hikes back in 2010. Despite the daily warnings of overwhelming health costs by the right, for lo these past 4 years, people still act surprised to see these skyrocketing rates or they just don't believe it's true. There will be nowhere to hide from the budget destroying effects ObamaCare will bring down on folks who try to earn their own way in this world once it is fully enforced. If you work for your living, you will be buried by crushing health care costs. The only people who are for ObamaCare are those who live on entitlements, the liberals, and the ones who blindly believe the lies the dems feed them via the main stream media. It's unbelievable that people actually think insurance companies have vast billions in profits just laying around which Obama is forcing them to use to pay for the poor to get free care (see post #51). Those who pay now will be the only ones paying then, only much more.

Older folks will be denied the care they need on a cost effective basis. Panels of government bureaucrats will make decisions about what kind of care seniors will be allowed to get. And, I can tell you right now if tax dollars are involved, and they will be, the young will win out over the aged when it comes to spending that dollar. I don't buy the 30 million number the CBO predicts either, FWIW. If there are 50 million who can't afford to feed themselves and are therefore on food stamps, those same 50 million sure aren't going to be able to pay $20 thousand for health insurance. It's a nightmare by any definition and the dems are 100% responsible for the whole mess. Unfortunately, the ones who did bring it down us, people like Nancy Pelosi for example, are filthy rich and will in no wise suffer at a personal level for what they have done to the working people of this country. There is some irony in it too because many of those working people are union folks who get their insurance from their place of employment. By all accounts, that will be gone, they're headed for the exchanges.