This political objective—masking the true underlying cost of Obamacare’s insurance plans—far outweighed the operational objective of making the federal website work properly. Think about it the other way around. If the “Affordable Care Act” truly did make health insurance more affordable, there would be no need to hide these prices from the public.
What do they think is going to happen? That prices will magically come down after they have a few years to “recode” the site?
These premiums are ridiculous and cannot possibly be paid. This problem of theirs is simply not going to go away.
Personally, a lot of people need to be brought up on charges. If a private company hid their intent to gouge, the CEO would be brought up on charges (wishful thinking, I know).
We received our premium update this weekend from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama. My premiums are going from $456 per month to $1099 per month, for the same co-pays, but higher individual deductibles. That’s a 141% increase!