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Posted on 10/15/2013 8:10:45 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Is the Affordable Health Care Act making health care unaffordable for some people?
Some customers of Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield, one of Oregon’s largest insurance providers, say that's exactly what's happening. They say they are finding their health care plans are dramatically changing under the Affordable Care Act.
“Policy holders are seeing almost double their monthly premiums,” said a KATU viewer named Larry in an email. He said his wife’s premium will increase by $300 under the Affordable Care Act.
The issue, according to Regence spokesman Jared Ishkanian, is you’ll have to pay for those benefits even if you don’t use them all.
(Excerpt) Read more at katu.com ...
Oh, really. Didn’t see that coming /s
“could”????
Up 29% just last year!
Fixed it.
bahahahahahahahahahaha.... ‘could’?
I’m a partner in a small business. Two years ago, our premiums went up 30%, and our deductibles went up 50%.
We just got notice our premiums are going up another 15%.
Affordable Health Care Act, my arse! And what are the Democrats doing about it? Refusing to negotiate, and shutting down the parks.
Hope for Spare Change. I will sit back and watch the ever increasing screeching (especially from the young and healthy), about their “Free” healthcare.
Simple. Because government forks up everything it touches.
Has there yet been a single report of anyone whose premiums and/or deductible (the oft-forgotten part of the whole equation) have GONE DOWN due to ObeyMeCare... oh, excuse me, the Affordable Care Act? Good grief, even the moonbats on DailyKos have complained.
I called today to make my daughter an appointment at a doctor’s office that her Pediatrician recommended. I knew they’d want my insurance info, that’s normal. What was new was that they had no appointments until the end of December and they wanted to know what my insurance was, what it was going to be next year, and if there was a chance I thought it was going to change or I was going to lose it by the first of the year!
And so it begins...
I am on the Gulf and there are already clinics in the Caribbean for refugees from obamacare. Young folks need to stay away from obamacare as much as possible and at the same time find some high deductible international medical insurance so that if they get old enough to need it they don't find themselves locked out. Waiting to buy insurance until you are diabetic or need a bypass is okay in this new system and they have to accept your "pre-existing condition" but the treatment available to you by then will be pretty close to zero.
I suspect that many many patients more and more will hear the sentence, "I am sorry but there is nothing more that medical science can do for you." Remember, that committee that decides whether you are worth the treatment will take into account your political viewpoint and the fact that you have not been co-operating with their system, even if you are "insured."
I had a person tell me their only income is $1000 a month in disability and their Medicaid was cut and they can’t afford Obamacare, especially the deductible. And this in NY. And to be honest they don’t even deserve the $1000 in disability!
I imagine this is all part of the plan. They know doctors are not going to take medicare or Medicaid once things get going. So two huge voting blocs will clamor for “something” to be done. That’s when our benevolent masters in DC will go to single payer, just like they’ve always wanted.
“Why your health insurance premium could increase under the Affordable Care Act”
Even the liberals are realizing that the TOTAL lie isn’t going to work at this point, so this is a lot like the “You can keep your health plan” mutating into “You might be able to keep your health plan”.
Wow, are those poor Democrats on the left coast going to be unhappy.
Here is my violin, playing a very, very sad piece of music ——>.
That is incorrect. The enrolment period for the next year is the last three months of the previous year. The current one is from 10/1 to 2/15, but that's a one-time event. Anyone who doesn't enroll in that time frame is shut out for the rest of the year.
From the “George. George, I like ketchup on my beans, George.” category, for the $200 Daily Double, Alex what is, “This mouse ain’t fresh, is it Lennie?”
What a mealy mouthed news report. Full of misleading LIES from the advocates AND the news reporters about how the price increases were due to LOWER deductibles and BETTER and MORE benefits! What load of horse sh!t!
I imagine there have been people who have previously been paying sky high premiums because they have pre-existing conditions or were almost uninsurable for other reasons.
obammacare has been a help to them as now the sky high rates they were paying is being shared and paid for other policy holders.
This is why the vast majority will see premiums increase along with co-pays and deductibles, to pay for this very small minority’s insurance excesses.
Increasing premiums aren’t the full story. The deductibles are insane.
It’s nothing but an extortion racket to make people buy essentially useless health insurance to pay for another pseudo-Medicaid system for the takers.
“I had a person tell me their only income is $1000 a month in disability and their Medicaid was cut and they can’t afford Obamacare, especially the deductible. And this in NY. And to be honest they don’t even deserve the $1000 in disability!”
From what I understand, $750 or so a month is the max income to be eligible for Medicaid. He/she should look into Medicaid spend down to try to qualify.
But with single payor it wont be better.
It’s nothing but an extortion racket to make people buy essentially useless health insurance to pay for another pseudo-Medicaid system for the takers.
BINGO! We have a winner.
First you pay for the Health Care of the takers, then you have to buy supplemental insurance for you own healthcare, if you can afford it.
Otherwise, you are on your own and pay out of pocket for you expenses.
The takers either pay no deductible, or the government gives them the money to pay the deductible.
So you pay for the Takers and you also pay for the massive fraud built into the system that makes the current 40% rate of fraud and abuse look insignificant.
For the people who actually pay into the system to support it - Rationing and Death Panels and Third World / Castros’ Cuban health care standards
Increasing premiums aren’t the full story. The deductibles are insane. It’s nothing but an extortion racket to make people buy essentially useless health insurance to pay for another pseudo-Medicaid system for the takers.
First you pay for the Health Care of the takers, then you have to buy supplemental insurance for you own healthcare, if you can afford it.
Otherwise, you are on your own and pay out of pocket for you expenses.
The takers either pay no deductible, or the government gives them the money to pay the deductible
More than tripled since that beast was passed.
FUBO.
When the rats create a communist redistribution project... people that are affected by it pay the bill for the welfare drones of lbj’s great society... aka holder’s peeps. This is not rocket science.
What!!! I'm shocked! Must be a typo. It's Bush's fault. Pretty soon you'll see the Republicans stealing the handles of federal water fountains, and try to blame it on Obama.
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