Posted on 11/28/2012 5:30:38 PM PST by Nachum
California´s largest for-profit health insurer, Anthem Blue Cross, is seeking to raise rates an average of 18% for more than 630,000 individual policyholders, drawing scrutiny from regulators and the ire of consumers already struggling with soaring premiums. Some Anthem customers may see rates rise as much as 25% in February under the company´s proposal at a time when medical inflation is running at historic lows nationwide. The increases are among several others proposed by California insurers, including Aetna Inc. and Health Net Inc. California insurance regulators will take the next month to review whether these rate increases are warranted,
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It is not just Obamacare, as if that wasn’t enough, but a couple of years ago (I believe), the American Psychological Association successfully lobbied to have mental health benefits paid on the same basis as any other medical illness. Bad move on their part and issues like this feed into the increased cost. It is simply not financially feasible to cover everybody for everything.
The cost of mental health outpatient coverage/benefits is really negligible compared to just about anything else. Just office visits basically; related prescriptions, if any, are or aren’t covered according to other provisions of the policy, and many states limit the office visits to 10/year. Compare this to, say, a single kidney stone running $35,000-$50,000 in hospital.
Hardly the first... ever since Obamacare got on the radar, the busy bee actuaries got with the math and figured out what is most likely to keep them in the black (no derogatory reference intended) over the next several tumultous years.
When you still hear folks that say there would not have been a lick of difference between a Barack and a Mitt future... show them this.
my supplumental is almost 300 dollars a month..don’t know what it is going to raised to
Wait until the Democrats insist that it cover veterinary care for your goats too!
I use to have goats 20 years ago and it was cheaper to medicate a flock of goats than take your dog to the vet. You bought medication from a vet catalog and it was cheap...that included sulfa, penicillin, erythomyoson, Pepto bismo (for scours) a gallon cost 3 bucks. My son needed something for an up set stomach I told him where to get the pepto bismo, but if that didn’t work, he’d take him to the vet....he didn’t think it was funny, but I did...They got wormed, deloused and hoofs clipped every 3-4 months
The 2014 election should be interesting after people get this dose of reality.
Compared to a kidney stone, the cost of mental health may be negligible in a one-to-one comparison but I deal with mental health plans in at least 20 different states and they all have unlimited visits. It’s all a piece of the puzzle. My Congressman and I continuously argue about a lot of what he calls insignificant amounts and he is one of many in Congress that refuses to look at cutting anything unless it’s millions of dollars or more. Trickles can easily and quickly become roaring rivers.
0’care in action, he is in the process of gutting the Military’s Tricare.
Just gutting Medicare was not enough. This is all part of a plan to force retired Military onto 0’care.
Link only as it cannot be POSTED, they don’t like truth getting out. But some how it does..thanks JIM for letting us inform people!
http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,252578,00.html
My BCBS of Kansas going up 7.78%, beginning 1-2013.
“Democrat friends?”
What are they?
Something you can get stuck with through marriage if you’re not careful.
I never knew why Johnson County was part of BCBS of KC and not BCBS of Kansas. Am curious if there would be a significant price difference.
My 2011 health insurance (Single BCBS) was $809/mo. Now, medicare and BCBS plan 65 are $263.57/mo. Scheduled to go up about $20 combined, (7.6%) 1-1-2013. Thanks, payroll taxpayers!
Damn, owe-bama has my vote bought for 2016! (Just in case he does not proclaim himself emperor for life by executive order before then.)
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