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(15,265 posts)saw double digit premium increases each year. I pulled my online paystubs to look st my payroll decutions years back. The public plan also saw double digit increases and ran over budget. Deval Patrick actually put a cap into law around 2010 where insurers could only raise premiums by single digit percentage per year.
http://commonwealthmagazine.org/health-care/patrick-vows-soft-cap-on-health-premium-hikes/
The insurers sued over the effort to cap increases.
http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/healthcare/health-insurers-sue-massachusetts-over-premium-rate-caps
The bottom line is nothing was done to reduce the cost of medical care and the promised savings by insuring all tbe uninsured people did not materialize
They added millions more to a broken system.
There were studies that showed although MA had one of the lowest rates of unisured people in the country we had one the highest rates of people using the ER (the highest medical costs) as their primary care stop in the country.
Among those forced to purchase RomneyCare, there was a very low percentage of prescription and Doctors vist co-pays. The conclusion is that pro5ple couldn't afford to use the plan after paying the premiums.