Sorry but with a 8 to 10 thousand dollar deductible you are not “covered” for anything but a catastrophic situation.
Yep, higher premiums and no coverage except for preventative, minor visits.
Well said!
You beat me to that one. As a fellow about to retire before Medicare kicks in - that would be "mandatory" Medicare, even if you don't take any money - I found myself actually checking the marketplace for an acceptable health plan. And what you state is precisely what I found.
Premiums are up - for a plan comparable to the one I had at the beginning of the 0bama administration's insufferable meddling, whose premium was on the order of $200 per month, I now may enjoy a premium of between $730 and $1000 dollars, with higher deductibles and co-pays, and less actual medicine covered. If "more" people are now covered, it's because everyone's blanket is threadbare. It didn't have to be this way.
The solutions proposed by the 0bama administration are principally, and typically, to double down - the patient pays more and gets less. It's really very simple: people who can afford nothing better than a plan with a $5000 co-pay don't have the $5000 in the bank to cover care. To represent them as having coverage now where they didn't before is simply a lie.
“Sorry but with a 8 to 10 thousand dollar deductible you are not “covered” for anything but a catastrophic situation.”
And it lumps pharmacy in with medical. Therefore the 500 dollar prescription where there is no generic has to be paid for every month. Prescription would cost me 10 bucks. I went to a discount med plan and the prescription is now 495 dollars.
They screwed this one up but good.