Quote Originally Posted by Lainey View Post
Agree that we cannot say the rise in health insurance premiums is strictly due to Obamacare coming online. The inability to rein in costs, along with the amazing technological advances in medicine, is certainly two of the bigger factors.

Just anecdotally, I'm amazed at the people I know in my extended circle who have had hip and knee replacements, laser eye surgery, extensive fertility treatments, expensive pharmaceuticals for various ailments, extreme treatments for terminally ill family members in their last months, etc. etc. All these things that were mostly unknown to our parents and grandparents, yet are now expected to be provided and available to everyone. That costs money.
Yes. Health care costs have been rising for decades. The olden days when people paid the doctor in eggs and chickens and went to hospitals only to die are long gone. My late husband's cancer diagnosis cost $10,000 - just the diagnosis. I'm sure the treatment (VA) was in the hundreds of thousands.