The Affordable Care Act; or Is IT?

The problem with politics and agendas from any political party is trying to find out when they are telling the truth of ball face lying. President Obama said, "We will keep this promise, to the American people; if you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period; if you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan, period". We now know at this point 28.7% of the people have already been forced off their health care plan and most have lost their doctors due to the regulations in "The Affordable Care Act." President Obama also said, "their going to be able to go on a web site or call up a call center and sign up for affordable quality health insurance at a significantly cheaper rate then they can get right now on the individual market." Of the fifty states plus DC there was only three I didn't find data for; of the other 48, Colorado was the only state where health care plans went down. Even with Colorado figured in, the average plan for a person of age 27 would go up by 62.5% and age of 50 would go up by 23.3%; this is opposite of the significantly cheaper rate; especially in Arizona  where a 27 year old person's insurance premium will rise by 156.7%; talk about sticker shock. The rates are listed below but you need to ask yourself; is this significantly cheaper?

	Age 27				Age 50
States	Before	After	Change		Before	After	Change
Alabama	$165.00	$216.12	31.0%		285.00	368.31	22.6%
Alaska	$198.00	$341.58	72.5%		398.00	582.05	31.6%
Arizona	$102.00	$261.87	156.7%		315.00	446.24	29.4%
Arkansas	$105.00	$285.00	171.4%		215.00	385.00	44.2%
California	$174.00	$215.00	23.6%		225.00	255.00	11.8%
Colorado	$275.00	$192.35	-30.1%		330.00	245.00	-34.7%
Connecticut	$149.37	$245.27	64.2%		249.00	435.00	42.8%
Delaware	$129.35	$258.60	99.9%		267.00	440.71	39.4%
DC	$153.27	$155.00	1.1%		225.00	345.00	34.8%
Florida	$151.40	$264.45	74.7%		257.00	450.67	43.0%
Georgia	$98.12	$263.28	168.3%		263.00	448.69	41.4%
Hawaii	Unavailable Data
Idaho	$92.45	$172.35	86.4%		262.00	351.00	25.4%
Illinois	$116.45	$249.72	114.4%		298.00	425.56	30.0%
Indiana	$197.45	$264.77	34.1%		249.00	451.21	44.8%
Iowa	$205.00	$230.21	12.3%		347.00	392.32	11.6%
Kansas	$87.40	$200.14	129.0%		198.00	341.08	41.9%
Kentucky	Unavailable Data
Louisiana	$129.20	$266.38	106.2%		315.00	453.96	30.6%
Maine	$225.00	$282.59	25.6%		329.00	341.00	3.5%
Maryland	$129.00	$142.00	10.1%		243.00	275.00	11.6%
Massachusetts	Unavailable Data
Michigan	$117.30	$255.85	118.1%		305.00	436.01	30.0%
Minnesota	$106.00	$122.00	15.1%		216.00	265.00	18.5%
Mississippi	$163.00	$213.00	30.7%		364.00	500.00	27.2%
Missouri	$159.00	$244.06	53.5%		299.00	415.92	28.1%
Montana	$150.00	$213.80	42.5%		278.00	364.35	23.7%
Nebraska	$125.00	$213.34	70.7%		298.00	363.57	18.0%
Nevada	$168.00	$172.00	2.4%		297.00	445.00	33.3%
New Hampshire	$220.00	$221.71	0.8%		359.00	377.84	5.0%
New Jersey	$329.00	$319.00	-3.0%		550.00	544.20	-1.1%
New Mexico	$105.00	$189.00	80.0%		315.00	354.00	11.0%
New York	$500.00	$356.00	-28.8%		500.00	356.00	-40.4%
North Carolina	$135.00	$257.39	90.7%		364.00	438.64	17.0%
North Dakota	$116.00	$247.30	113.2%		215.00	421.44	49.0%
Ohio	$247.00	$243.12	-1.6%		421.00	414.32	-1.6%
Oklahoma	$135.00	$213.02	57.8%		298.00	363.02	17.9%
Oregon	$115.00	$178.20	55.0%		201.00	215.90	6.9%
Pennsylvania	$167.00	$220.36	32.0%		289.00	374.05	22.7%
Rhode Island	$285.00	$205.00	-28.1%		354.00	297.00	-19.2%
South Carolina	$205.00	$246.19	20.1%		315.00	419.56	24.9%
South Dakota	$159.00	$308.64	94.1%		305.00	525.99	42.0%
Tennessee	$135.00	$214.70	59.0%		278.00	365.90	24.0%
Texas	$115.00	$229.95	100.0%		205.00	391.88	47.7%
Utah	$126.00	$220.91	75.3%		268.00	338.04	20.7%
Vermont	$150.00	$366.00	144.0%		250.00	402.00	37.8%
Virginia	$165.00	$581.00	252.1%		278.00	991.03	71.9%
Washington	$124.00	$215.00	73.4%		314.00	355.00	11.5%
West Virginia	$215.00	$229.48	6.7%		259.00	391.07	33.8%
Wisconsin	$140.00	$277.91	98.5%		289.00	473.61	39.0%
Wyoming	$289.00	$364.95	26.3%		540.00	621.96	13.2%
			62.5%				23.3%

Were we lied to or were the ones estimating just this incompetent; I would just say this is like every other government program, inefficient, ill-regulated, and ran by incompetent people; everything seems to be far off the track. As I stated in "Update on the Truth about Obama Care" and "Is Obamacare Good or Bad and is it a Train Wreck Waiting to Happen?" I warned what was happening. First, all the experts say the site should have been $2 million max, not $600 million; second the web site wasn't set up for bid but awarded to a friend of the First Lady, this is known as a conflict of interest or was it another Solyndra; give them a massive amount of tax payer's money and they pony up contributions to your political party? First Lady Michelle Obama’s Princeton classmate is a top executive at the company that received the contract to build the failed Obamacare website according to the Daily Caller. According to the New York Times, the administration purposely delayed the announcement of some Obamacare rules until after the November election, so as to avoid giving the GOP political fodder, delaying the whole thing. If it wasn't ready, the responsible and professional action should have been to delay Obamacare; the responsible and professional direction for the web site should have been to get a web designer who was without conflicts of interest, but political prevaricating wins out again and we the people end up footing the bill.

This is why everything that can be should be in the private market and not ran by the government. The private market has always and will always be more efficient, on time, and correct then anything ran by the government; it's a fact of life. When you let politics and partialness get involved, we the people always loose. There are many who think the builders of the web site wanted it to fail to prevent the sticker shock people are now receiving; this just confirms they knew and lied.