[Please see 3/16 and 3/17 updates at bottom]
In last night's Democratic town hall forum, an audience member, Teresa O'Donnell of Powell, Ohio, told Hillary Clinton that she voted for Obama, "but then my health insurance skyrocketed, from $490 a month to $1,081 a month, for a family of 4." Charles Gaba has the clip, his own transcription, and an analysis here.
The question's a toughie, because Clinton couldn't very interrogate Ms. O'Donnell to determine all the factors behind her claim. She did ascertain that the family had previously bought their insurance in the individual market. She then faintly intimated that perhaps O'Donnell hadn't fully checked out her options; credited the ACA with getting costs down generally (though not for all); stressed that she wanted to work to better contain costs; and implicitly blamed the absence in many markets of nonprofit insurers for much of continued cost hikes.
In last night's Democratic town hall forum, an audience member, Teresa O'Donnell of Powell, Ohio, told Hillary Clinton that she voted for Obama, "but then my health insurance skyrocketed, from $490 a month to $1,081 a month, for a family of 4." Charles Gaba has the clip, his own transcription, and an analysis here.
The question's a toughie, because Clinton couldn't very interrogate Ms. O'Donnell to determine all the factors behind her claim. She did ascertain that the family had previously bought their insurance in the individual market. She then faintly intimated that perhaps O'Donnell hadn't fully checked out her options; credited the ACA with getting costs down generally (though not for all); stressed that she wanted to work to better contain costs; and implicitly blamed the absence in many markets of nonprofit insurers for much of continued cost hikes.
