{"id":22463,"date":"2014-04-08T13:06:35","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T17:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22463"},"modified":"2014-04-08T13:06:35","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T17:06:35","slug":"the-chickens-are-coming-home-to-roost-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22463","title":{"rendered":"The Chickens Are Coming Home To Roost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though the November election is seven months away, this is the election season. One of the goals of the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Democratic Party (United States)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.democrats.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Democrat party<\/a> during this season is to convince <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667 (United%20States)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Americans<\/a> that <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">ObamaCare<\/a> is a good thing and that we like it. So far that effort is not going particularly well. Based on some numbers posted by <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Forbes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Forbes Magazine<\/a>, it is about to get worse.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/scottgottlieb\/2014\/04\/07\/health-plan-premiums-are-skyrocketing-according-to-new-survey-of-148-insurance-brokers-analysts-blame-obamacare\/\" target=\"_blank\">Forbes Magazine<\/a> posted an article with the following headline:<\/p>\n<h1 itemprop=\"name\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Health insurance\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Health_insurance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Health Plan<\/a> Premiums Are Skyrocketing According To New Survey Of 148 Insurance Brokers, With <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Delaware\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=39.0,-75.5&amp;spn=3.0,3.0&amp;q=39.0,-75.5 (Delaware)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Delaware<\/a> Up 100%, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"California\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=37.0,-120.0&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=37.0,-120.0 (California)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">California<\/a> 53%, Florida 37%, Pennsylvania\u00a028%<\/h1>\n<p>Democrats may be okay with those numbers, but to a lot of Americans, those numbers represent one more broken promise in ObamaCare.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Health <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Insurance\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wikinvest.com\/industry\/Insurance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikinvest\">insurance premiums<\/a> are showing the sharpest increases perhaps ever according to a survey of brokers who sell coverage in the individual and small group market. <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Morgan Stanley\" href=\"http:\/\/www.morganstanley.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Morgan Stanley<\/a>\u2019s healthcare analysts conducted the proprietary survey of 148 brokers. The April survey shows the largest acceleration in small and individual group rates in any of the 12 prior quarterly periods when it has been conducted.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The average increases are in excess of 11% in the small group market and 12% in the individual market. Some state show increases 10 to 50 times that amount. The analysts conclude that the \u201cincreases are largely due to changes under the ACA.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not only has ObamaCare wrecked the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Health care in the United States\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Health_care_in_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">American healthcare<\/a> system, it has spent massive amounts of money to do so and has placed enormous financial burdens on Americans trying to purchase the required healthcare. It is truly time for ObamaCare to go away.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_h.png?x-id=17d55bd3-aa46-4011-860a-3732290c7b23\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though the November election is seven months away, this is the election season. One of the goals of the Democrat party during this season is to convince Americans that ObamaCare is a good thing and that we like it. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22463\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30,712,132,660,397,7,134,285],"class_list":["post-22463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-california","tag-democratic-party-united-states","tag-health-insurance","tag-insurance","tag-morgan-stanley","tag-obamacare","tag-patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22464,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22463\/revisions\/22464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}