Opponents of the ACA have promulgated this narrative that before Obamacare health insurance was stable and rates were reasonable and nobody ever had any cause (let alone requirement) to change their health insurance coverage. It was never that way, of course, but overreaching promises to get the ACA passed have given those opponents ammunition to use on behalf of folks with short memories.
One Tweet Shows Why You Shouldn’t Complain About Obamacare “Rate Shock”
This post originally appeared in Business Insider. Hillary Rosner, a Colorado-based freelance journalist, tweets about her search for a post-Affordable Care Act health insurance plan: Here’s the thing. You can have it one way on “rate shock,” but you can’t have it both ways. There are, broadly, two ways that…