Posted on 08/18/2016 9:17:57 PM PDT by Olog-hai
When Obamacare’s fourth open enrollment period begins on November 1, many customers will face fewer insurance options and much higher prices.
“Only the sick people sign up. And that’s why the premiums are going up, up, up,” said Obamacare critic Betsy McCaughey, who is the former Lt. Gov. of New York.
Premiums will go up by double digits, she predicted — “20 percent for the biggest plans in New York, 40 percent in Tennessee, and somewhere in between around the country.” …
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Rats on the Westside bedbugs uptown...
Meanwhile, 0bama eats free...
Only sick people sign up.
That sounds like a arguement for forcing people to sign up.
Or you could just be a Congressman and then you could care less because the taxpayers are picking up the tab.
Never let a crisis go to waste. Help is on the way in the form of single payor! s/
Everyone’s premiums are rising, not just the exchange people, and by double digits.
And we don’t “get subsidies” to soften the blow. We have couples buying group who now have to have 2 policies if their employers each offer group: you can’t pick the best one: if your employer offers insurance you have to take it.
Yeah...what a fine effin mess.
FUBO! and every dumblecrat!
Rep. Tim Walz, D-Minn., “They just didn’t understand how we could save money on this by adding more people to the system, how it was going to impact them in terms of their premiums and their access to care.”
It could be worse. Firms don't have to keep premiums low for non working spouses and dependents. People in that situation can't buy cheaper insurance on exchanges even if their income is in the subsidy range.
Just received our renewal quote yesterday: 11% increase
What a plan. The premiums take your paycheck and the deductibles empties your life savings.
We have the situation where the company “provides” insurance for the employees but the spouse has to have a separate policy. One poor guy to cover his wife is paying $750/mo in addition to his own contribution to the group policy. His renewal notice for his wife said it will be close to $1,000/mo and thats with a $5,000 deductible.
They took a system with flaws where everyone WAS covered, even if they shifted the cost, doubled and tripled the costs, forced deductibles so high you may as well not have insurance and claim they did something so great.
In a time not too long ago, these people would have been wearing feathers and tar or be hanging from trees.
Despicable liars, every damn one of them.
Harry Reid...
“What we’ve done with Obamacare is have a step in the right direction, but we’re far from having something that’s going to work forever,” Reid said.
When then asked by panelist Steve Sebelius whether he meant ultimately the country would have to have a health care system that abandoned insurance as the means of accessing it, Reid said: “Yes, yes. Absolutely, yes.”
This was the plan from the beginning ... make healthcare sooooo expensive... put insurance companies out of business... and then transform us into socialized healthcare.
Yikes! How old is she? If she is relatively young it would be cheaper to buy private insurance.
She is in her 50’s.
And that’s the thing: they were forced to purchase an individual private policy for her. That’s what next year’s premium for it will be.
1K per month at 2016 rates would get me a gold plan in my neck of the woods. I am 58. If I lost my employer coverage, COBRA would cost ~1K per month. Bronze plans are around $6K a year. They could be up to $8K for 2017. That just nuts for someone healthy..
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