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Thanks A Lot, Mr. President! My Health Premium Is Up 114%
forbes ^ | 9/27/2013 | George Anders

Posted on 09/27/2013 10:39:33 AM PDT by tobyhill

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. My health insurer, Kaiser Permanente, has finally calculated what our family’s new health insurance rates will be under the grotesquely misnamed Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare.) The upshot: my premiums are about to rise by 114.6%. My wife’s rates? Up 109%. Our kids? Don’t ask.

Yes, it’s time to say goodbye to my current plan, with its $232-a-month premium. That plan is being discontinued, I’m told, because it “does not meet the requirements of the ACA.” It was a nice plan, with low premiums, free physical exams, a high deductible and eligibility for a Health Savings account. We got access to Kaiser’s lower in-plan rates for minor medical care, and we had the peace of mind of substantial coverage if anything catastrophic ever happened.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aca; bhofascism; democrats; govtabuse; healthinsurance; obama; obamacare; tyranny
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To: tobyhill

41 posted on 09/27/2013 11:59:49 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (Didn't make it to the gym today. That makes 5 years in a row.)
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To: Grampa Dave

ObAMA MONEY fo EVERYBODY!!


42 posted on 09/27/2013 12:01:29 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( Un-Documented Journalist / Block Captain..Tyranny Response Team)
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To: tobyhill

Hey - don’t worry about these little ‘glitches’. They are merely ‘anecdotal’, says dear leader and the rest of his clown car passengers.


43 posted on 09/27/2013 12:01:37 PM PDT by SusaninOhio
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To: MeshugeMikey

Hey!

Where’s your graphics? ?

I posted one near the bottom of this thread — but I miss YOURS!!


44 posted on 09/27/2013 12:02:25 PM PDT by Bon of Babble (Didn't make it to the gym today. That makes 5 years in a row.)
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To: tobyhill

Are the freakin’ idiot senators reading this stuff? The garbage in the Senate is purposely ignoring it! They will pay a heavy price.


45 posted on 09/27/2013 12:03:58 PM PDT by jersey117
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To: Grampa Dave

I read a report that clinics are already setting up across the border in Mexico with American doctors — cash only. Canadians used to flee here to get medical care that they had to wait months for, now WE’RE going South to do the same thing.

I live in California and I can only IMAGINE what it’s going to be like after even MORE illegals flood into the system... They’re the ones that need to get health care in Mexico from THEIR government.


46 posted on 09/27/2013 12:07:09 PM PDT by Bon of Babble (Didn't make it to the gym today. That makes 5 years in a row.)
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To: Tax-chick

I’m sorry to hear that. Hope something workable emerges for you.

We lost ours also but the State of Washington with its socialistic welcoming arms is ever so happy to migrate us into another state program. We are actually trying to stay clear of the Medicaid Morass, but that’s where the state says we’re going like it or not. Believe it or not they will not permit me to enroll in one of the commercial plans on the state exchange (I might do it in a sneaky way anyway, for the first year).


47 posted on 09/27/2013 12:10:07 PM PDT by steve86 (Some things aren't really true but you wouldn't be half surprised if they were.)
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To: Bon of Babble

The left wing pariahs in Sacramento, have placed the illegals at the front of the line for their free care.

If you have something that needs to be done surgically, get it done before 1 Jan 2014.

I had extensive foot surgery a couple of weeks ago with rehab up to 8-10 weeks.

Our best weather, kayaking and fishing are during Sept/Oct early November.

We decided not to try it next year.


48 posted on 09/27/2013 12:11:24 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( When insane/feral Islamics are killing each other, stand back and let Allah sort them out!)
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To: Bon of Babble
This is scary, truthful and true. Thanks!


49 posted on 09/27/2013 12:15:48 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( When insane/feral Islamics are killing each other, stand back and let Allah sort them out!)
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To: Grampa Dave

Moonbeam Brown wants to allow ILLEGAL ALEINS to practice... .LAW......In california

we really are doomed to living in Wonderland.


50 posted on 09/27/2013 12:20:55 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( Un-Documented Journalist / Block Captain..Tyranny Response Team)
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To: MeshugeMikey

“Moonbeam Brown wants to allow ILLEGAL ALEINS to practice... .LAW......In California,”

We know that Brown lives in another world aka his nickname Moonbeam.

We keep hearing that he has Alzheimer’s, even before he was elected.


51 posted on 09/27/2013 12:28:21 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( When insane/feral Islamics are killing each other, stand back and let Allah sort them out!)
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To: Bon of Babble

“I read a report that clinics are already setting up across the border in Mexico with American doctors — cash only. Canadians used to flee here to get medical care that they had to wait months for, now WE’RE going South to do the same thing.”

Good American doctors will become available to man these clinics very soon.


52 posted on 09/27/2013 12:29:44 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( When insane/feral Islamics are killing each other, stand back and let Allah sort them out!)
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To: Grampa Dave

I think his previously somewhat well masked PSYCHOSIS is now in full view.

Next up.....Illegal Aliens qualifying to be members of LAW ENFORCEMENT? perhaps as part of the SWAT TEAMS being readied by the IRS???


53 posted on 09/27/2013 12:33:56 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( Un-Documented Journalist / Block Captain..Tyranny Response Team)
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To: CitizenUSA

ayep.

see what your hard work, perserverence and initiative gets you in the marxist utopia?

it gets you screwed, and then it gets you dead


54 posted on 09/27/2013 12:48:52 PM PDT by QualityMan (Don't Tread on Me)
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To: riri

You raise a good point. Given the cards we have been dealt everyone needs at least catastrophic health insurance of some sort or place themeselves and their family at great risk.


55 posted on 09/27/2013 12:58:49 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: workerbee

They have already something like this in place. I haven’t had insurance since 2006, no money for insurance. I paid cash to the Nurse practitioner. She gave up her practice in 2008, so I haven’t been able to see a reg. Dr. since. She knew that I was pretty poor and apologized that she could not charge me any less than she accepted for Medicare.


56 posted on 09/27/2013 1:21:13 PM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: machogirl

Obviously, those complaining about this wonderful nobamacare are either selfish or racist...or both. Sit down, be quiet, get to work and pay your “fair” share. It is for the “better good”. Complainers are counterrevolutionary and will not be tolerated by Clown Prince nobama.


57 posted on 09/27/2013 2:27:20 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Rehabilitation Camp?)
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To: hal ogen

That about sums it up. I’m wonder why those that support it, are happy taking away the rights of 92% for the 8%? That’s not the America I grew up in. The 8% could have been dealt with another way. The attitude I’ve read is, “I don’t care about your Rights, my “Rights” come first. Very depressing.


58 posted on 09/27/2013 2:36:08 PM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: j. earl carter

No you have it backwards. Providers will gladly take cash eith out insurance overhead. It is for this that insurance is charged about 30 percent more.


59 posted on 09/27/2013 5:39:08 PM PDT by sgtyork (The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage. Thucydides)
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To: tobyhill
Thanks A Lot, Mr. President! My Health Premium Is Up 114%

Yeah, but your co-pay and deductibles are also up sharply to make up for the higher premiums, Oh, wait...

60 posted on 09/27/2013 5:56:45 PM PDT by RJL (There's no greed like the greed of a liberal politician buying votes with your money.)
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