Posted on 10/30/2022 8:38:56 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Annual premiums for family health insurance are expected to skyrocket to higher rates in 2023 due to rampant inflation, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation report.
While family rates increased modestly by about one percent to $22,463 in 2022 from $22,221 in 2021, which is well below the national overall inflation growth of 8.2 percent, employers are now sounding the alarm that premiums may surge next year, according to the 2022 KFF Employer Health Benefits Survey.
“Employers are already concerned about what they pay for health premiums, but this could be the calm before the storm, as recent inflation suggests that larger increases are imminent,” KFF President and CEO Drew Altman said in Thursday’s report. “Given the tight labor market and rising wages, it will be tough for employers to shift costs onto workers when costs spike.”
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Deep State’s cool with this.
If you’re impoverished, ill, you’re far easier to rule.
Eat less Raisin Bran.
Wonder what happened to all those covid bucks.
If you’re impoverished, ill, you’re far easier to rule.
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True but the country as a whole has become very compliant, passive and easily misled. There’s no fire burning for individual freedom anymore.
If that were really the case Deep State wouldn’t have to steal elections.
Wonder what happened to all those covid bucks.
...replace raisins with bugs.
Incredible as it may seem, Medicare premiums are set to go down in 2023. We retirees tip our caps to you chumps still working and paying a big share of our premium. I don’t know what my Medicare supplement premium will be but for once being old helps. Between my Medicare and private supplement, total $290/month premium, it’s the best medical insurance I’ve had since Obamacare came to town.
I currently use Medicare with Supplement Insurance. One of the medical groups I use has warned me that they may stop accepting Medicare patients next year, and switching to “Non-participating provider” for the Medicare patients they already have. Note: “Non-participating provider” basically means that they can charge up to 15% more than the Medicare approved rate for services.
I could switch from traditional Medicare to a Medicare Advantage plan, which is what that medical group is encouraging me to do, but my research shows that an Advantage plan would cost me significantly more in back-end payments.
I live in a rural area, and only have access to one medical group for specialists, within 30 miles. I have to travel 55 miles to reach the cardiac group that installed my pacemaker.
I think you would agree that Dems sometimes have trouble motivating their constituents to get out and vote. They have lots of voters but getting them to actually vote, especially in critical races, is often a challenge for them. So they manufacture the votes to steal elections when they need to.
Dems often have the numerical advantage but that doesn’t always translate into victories because their base is basically lazy and doesn’t care one iota about liberty and personal responsibility.
Thanks Dear Leader Zer0.
Crazy, isn’t it? I went to my local office closed (due to Covid) but it had the local number on the door. I sat in the parking lot, called the local number and talked to them on the other side of the wall. F’n federal government! You might have to go to the local office to a real number.
Thanks. I’ll try that.
eat cheaper raisin bran ...
For retirees it’s going to be a b===h.
Just another attack on those in the middle class that pay taxes, to support those that don’t.
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