Your ♡bamaCare!!! Fail of the Day

♡bamaCare!!! isn’t quite saving people money:

According to the online insurance marketplace HealthPocket, deductibles shot up 42 percent during the health law’s first year, compared to those for plans available pre-Obamacare. Today, almost one in seven Americans spends 10 percent or more of his or her income on out-of-pocket costs like deductibles.

Plans with high deductibles already dominate in many states. In Indiana, which uses the federally operated HealthCare.gov exchange, 24 of the 29 plans available have high deductibles — defined as at least $1,300 for individuals and $2,600 for families. In South Dakota, 31 of 38 plans do.

Next year will bring more of the same. A recent report from Modern Healthcare concluded that 60 to 80 percent of the plans sold in a given exchange market could have high deductibles.

These deductibles are squeezing ordinary Americans. According to a recent survey from the Commonwealth Fund, nearly half of all adults with annual incomes ranging from 100 to 399 percent of the poverty line — or about $12,000 to $48,000 — described their deductibles as “difficult or impossible to afford.”

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