[Oldeconomybuyer]

You lie!!

[svcw]

I don’t understand the headline, prices are higher everywhere nit just rural areas..

[Red Dog #1]

Law “fails” to keep prices lower? Really? More like the law caused prices to increase.

[freeandfreezing]

The price is higher ($1300 per month for a family of four), the deductibles are huge ($12,000) and there is no out of network coverage in New Hampshire. And around one third of the hospitals in the state are not in the network and therefore not covered.

If you live near one of the hospitals that is not in the plan and have a heart attack the only thing the insurance will pay for is the emergency room. You can't be admitted to the hospital, instead you have to get transported to another hospital in-network if you want to have any insurance coverage at all.

If you or one of your kids gets really sick you are basically out of luck, because you have no insurance coverage for any of the research hospitals nearby in Boston Massachusetts. Your new Obamacare compatible policy won't pay any benefits if, for example, your kid has to be admitted to Childrens Hospital.

We heard a lot of talk from the President about how bankruptcy is one illness away, but that wasn't true if you had health insurance before Obamacare. Now, even if you buy health insurance in New Hampshire on the exchange you don't have any insurance if you or your kids get really sick. And if the specialist hospitals and doctors will even take you as a patient without insurance bankruptcy is guaranteed.

[Spartan79]

Another devastating impact on rural areas has so far not drawn much media attention. According to people I’ve talked to in the health care industry, the ACA is expected to drive hundreds of small community hospitals out of business. If you are from a small town which used to have a small 20-25 bed hospital, you may find yourself being transported 75 or more miles after your auto accident, and your family will have to drive 150 miles round-trip to visit you during your recuperation.

Assuming you survive the 90 minute ambulance ride to the hospital, of course.

[Hoodat]

While competition is intense in many populous regions, rural areas and small towns have far fewer carriers offering plans in the law’s online exchanges. Those places, many of them poor, are being asked to choose from some of the highest-priced plans in the 34 states where the federal government is running the health insurance marketplaces

Wait a minute, haven't these liberals been telling us for years that replacing a competitive market with a government monopoly will give us better choices at lower cost? What gives?

[Hoodat]

Here is a map showing these rural areas (marked in red) where premiums will rise: