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Why the Affordable Care Act Deserves a New Name

<p>Even though&comma; healthcare&period;gov has been live and &ldquo&semi;functional&rdquo&semi; for two years&comma; users are still reporting on-going website bugs and glitches&period; This clunky Health Insurance Exchange Website&comma; launched from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act &lpar;AKA ObamaCare&comma;&rpar; has exceeded the initial building budget of &dollar;93&period;7 million by almost &dollar;400 million&period; It has cost the government roughly &dollar;500 million and this was just prior to the website&rsquo&semi;s launch&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Not only was the process to launch HealthCare&period;gov&comma; a long and tedious one&comma; but it is also proving to be an expensive and time-consuming one for users enrolling in the program&period; Monthly premiums have only been increasing and are at an all-time high&period; According to new information from the Department of Health and Human Services &lpar;HHS&comma;&rpar; the current monthly premium on average is &dollar;408&period; This is the unsubsidized premium price&comma; meaning the monthly price for individuals who don&rsquo&semi;t qualify for a subsidy or tax credit from the government&period; Most would argue that &dollar;408 a month is not a reasonable expense&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It has also been reported that the monthly premiums are only going to escalate in price&period; In 2016&comma; rates are expected to rise 20&period;3&percnt; on average&comma; according to a recent report by The Daily Caller&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Evidently&comma; this is causing previous supporters of ObamaCare to question the value of the program&period; The Affordable Care Act is costing millions of tax payer&rsquo&semi;s dollars in an attempt to make healthcare more reasonably priced&period; However&comma; these healthcare premiums are proving to not be affordable&period; That&rsquo&semi;s why the act deserves a more fitting name&period; Perhaps&comma; like the Unaffordable Care Act&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><center><strong><br &sol;> To Hell with Obamacare&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This book was written by Joe Gilbertson of the Punching Bag Post Staff&period; This is the solution to the Obamacare fiasco&colon; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p> <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;amazon&period;com&sol;gp&sol;product&sol;1517719704&sol;ref&equals;as&lowbar;li&lowbar;tl&quest;ie&equals;UTF8&amp&semi;camp&equals;1789&amp&semi;creative&equals;9325&amp&semi;creativeASIN&equals;1517719704&amp&semi;linkCode&equals;as2&amp&semi;tag&equals;punbagpos-20&amp&semi;linkId&equals;RBIZUOKRHDNIYOP6" rel&equals;"nofollow">The Opposite of Obamacare&colon; How a free enterprise philosophy would dramatically reduce health care prices &&num;8211&semi; Paperback &dollar;13&period;95<&sol;a><img style&equals;"border&colon; none &excl;important&semi; margin&colon; 0px &excl;important&semi;" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;ir-na&period;amazon-adsystem&period;com&sol;e&sol;ir&quest;t&equals;punbagpos-20&amp&semi;l&equals;as2&amp&semi;o&equals;1&amp&semi;a&equals;1517719704" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1" height&equals;"1" border&equals;"0" &sol;> <&sol;strong><&sol;center><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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