[Mark]

400% of free is still free!

[C. Edmund Wright]

Because govt bureaucrats can run a huge complex industry so damned well....

[Carriage Hill]

If you think health care’s expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free.

[I want the USA back]

Maybe the rate increases will finally get the low-information crowd to yank their heads back out of their a$$es and realize what a big mistake they made in Nov 2008 and 2012.

[Lorianne]

No problem. Just print more and more money and give subsidies to more and more people so they can pay higher and higher premiums.

Sheesh.

[MileHi]

UNEXPECTED!!!

[mountn man]

ping

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

What will be interesting will be the unemployment percentage after the commie care goes into effect. I think the record is 23% in 1932. If we’re lucky maybe it’ll only hit 22% and then when Democrats blame the RINO party, the RINOs won’t have to apologize too much.

[forgotten man]

My 2012 form W-2 has a box with the cost of my employer provided health insurance in it. Last year it was about $4,000. That amount is not taxable YET. Soon the amount will be more than double and it will be taxable. Why else would the IRS add that box to the W-2? How many times did 0bama promise “If you make less than $250,000 yo taxes won go up one one dime.” That a**hole makes me sick!

[tcrlaf]

“crushing the administration’s goal of affordability.”

The goal was never “affordability”, the goal is CONTROL, and the power to crush political opposition. They are ALREADY handing Confidential info to Radical Dem groups for political use, what do you think they are going to do with medical records??

[Opinionated Blowhard]

A lot of these insurance company suckers signed on for this oppressive monstrosity. Now Obama will make them eat costs and then saddle the “rich” taxpayers with the remainder. We’ll end up with no private insurance market and the “rich” paying 70%+ in taxes to give the entire country, including any illegal who can make it across the border, free health care.

[TexasFreeper2009]

what did they expect, when the insurance companies are being forced to cover millions of fags with AIDS after they got it?

[RoosterRedux]

And imagine when the IRS and Obamacare are basically merged.

OH...what fun we will have!

"You teach history...the Constitution? Well, sir, you have come to the wrong hospital!"

[bert]

Recall if you will, Obama care is a tax. It is paid by those who purchase insurance for expenses of those who do not.

[Track9]

This is how the Soviet Union lost the cold war.

[Tammy8]

I think this is part of the plan, when it cannot be made affordable the government will take over and we will just have a total government health care system. I think that was the goal all along.

[Sirius Lee]

Take a huge bureaucratic entity like an insurance company and stick it in between the consumer and the doctor. A big chunk of change is taken out of the middle and so the price of medical care rises.

Now put an even bigger bureaucratic entity like the federal government in between the the doctor and the insurance company and the insurance company and the patient.

400% is a lowball figure.

[Usually_Disappointed]

The year before last my rates went up 100%. I had to change plans because I could no longer afford the plan I had for years. Last year my rates only went up 5%, but the coverage dropped by quite a bit. By next year I suspect I won’t be able to afford anything but disaster coverage...

[Varsity Flight]

“The 17 companies include Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield and Kaiser Foundation.”

Aetna is a LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY......the 2008 “Bailout” never happened...and the whole push by these so called “insurance” companies is to fund the phony paper...AGAIN.

[Vision]

The question is what will happen when rates skyrocket? People will not pay for it so what is going to happen? Repeal? People give up insurance?