Healthcare

Obamacare is Working

From the LA Times

A new report estimates that U.S. consumers who purchase their own health insurance saved $2.1 billion last year due to tougher rules in the federal healthcare law.

Thursday’s report by the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation estimates that individual premiums would have been $1.9 billion higher in 2012 without the requirements in the federal Affordable Care Act. In addition, the nonprofit group said individual policyholders nationwide should receive $241 million in rebates this summer.

The Affordable Care Act saved those who purchase their own insurance $2.1 billion last year and, for those who are keeping track, the Republicans have voted to repeal it 37 times.

Why do the Republicans want to increase the cost of healthcare?