GrumpyCatFace wrote:Okeefenokee wrote:
So, technological innovation has nothing to do with healthcare, or the cost thereof?
Has the product development cycle stopped since Obamacare took effect?
It was vapid bullshit, designed to impress the uninformed. Admit it.
Do government regulations affect businesses?
Do higher premiums affect the number of insured?
Does a smaller pool of consumers affect the behavior of businesses?
Do businesses restricted geographically, and with declining customers, make changes to their operation in reaction to those factors?
In Michigan, for example, state officials just approved price hikes of 16.7%, on average, for individuals purchasing health insurance in 2017 through the state's Affordable Care Act exchange. Individual buyers can expect average increases of 20% in Colorado, meanwhile, and price hikes of 19% to 43% in Iowa next year.
Such price increases are actually on the low side compared with states like Minnesota and Oklahoma, where individual plans will shoot up 50% or more on November 1, which is when signups for 2017 coverage on marketplaces are opened.
More know nothing analysis from grumps.
/bonghit
dude, changes in the health insurance market have no effect on behaviors in the health technologies industry. like, man, they aren't even the same thing.