Political Quotes

“5 years ago, days after President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, the senior Democratic Senator from New York went on ``Meet the Press'' to discuss the bill. He told the host: ``Well, I think as people learn about the bill, and now that the bill is enacted, it's going to become more and more popular.'' I don't need to tell anyone that never happened. Five years after ObamaCare was enacted, a majority of Americans disapproved the law, and that is a pattern we have seen since the law's passage. Why has the law failed to earn the support Democrats predicted? For one simple reason: The law is just not working as President Obama promised it would. The Affordable Care Act was supposed to lower health care premiums. It didn't. It was supposed to reduce health care costs. It didn't. It was supposed to protect the health care plans that Americans wanted to keep. It didn't. The law was sold as a health care solution, but it turned out to be yet another health care problem. Five years after the law's passage, here is where we are: Americans with job-based insurance are paying more for their health care, with the average employee seeing a $400 increase in his or her deductible since 2010. Small business employees have fared even worse, with average deductibles now close to $2,000. And Americans are paying more for their premiums as well. An average annual premium contribution for family coverage is currently $12,591, up from $9,773 in 2010.…”