Posted on 12/27/2013 12:27:31 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Only a fool would expect monopoly pricing to be cheap.
Did you include the new tax on health insurance premiums in your calculation?
In California’s exchange policies, the ones designated “catastrophic coverage” were the ones that had limited primary care. Because they had all of the other federally mandated coverage, though, the premiums were, as you described, only a few bucks less than the regular plans.
Obama has brought us a new series of difinitions with modifiers: we now have marriage and real marriage, and catastrophic insurance and real catastrophic insurance.
The bad part is that you have to satisfy your deductible within your network and the doctors assigned to you. I’m sure that they wouldn’t do anything to slow walk your care as you reach the deductible threshold. /sarc
Not a lot of discussion about the elimination of lifetime maximums either, probably for the same reason.
Add $1k to your in network OOP and you have the plan we have through Dec 31 of this year.
Our new plan is a horror story.
Consumer spending will absolutely crater over this.
You get federal subsidies if you select a silver plan AND are subsidy-eligible.
It would be stupid to pay out of pocket costs in a bronze plan when its not necessary.
Like I said, the cheapest option isn’t always the most appropriate one.
Depends on which OCare compliant policy you buy. Some offer only in network coverage (and some networks cover only one county), some offer in network and out of network emergency coverage, and some offer in network at one rate and out of network at another. I would imagine the nationwide companies would cover you around the country, but I’ll bet the West Lubbock Clinic Health Plan doesn’t. OOP’ll go up, because that’s now a potentially unlimited payout for the insurance company, and the premium’s most likely to be higher so you can help pay for Sandra Fluke’s friend’s social life.
I don't doubt that they would try to play politics -- but based on how this has worked out so far, it should boomerang and impact Obama "friends" even more than Obama enemies. They don't have even a clue as to what they are doing. I think of Obamacare as a giant, unguided missile.
You’re assuming that anyone would report this or do anything about it.
What’s happened to the IRS agents who persecuted the tea party groups?
Nothing.
Did the tea party groups get remunerated for their lost time and legal expenses?
No.
This go around, with healthcare, you won’t be able to bring back the time your child would have benefitted from chemo or that surgical procedure. Your child will simply be dead.
What kind of media attention do you think you’ll get?
We make exactly $450 too much for subsidies.
BTW, the subsidies aren’t manufactured out of thin air. They’re taxpayer funded.
Ie, theft.
Theft is no way to fund medical care.
/s I don’t mind paying for this new obamacare approved plan as long as Sandra Fluk gets her free birth control. I mean, that IS why this law was passed right??? \s
Oh, you'll get media attention.
You will be called a racist for complaining.
all these plans have higher deductibles and higher premiums for most people.
before obamacare passed, the dems threw the charge at republicans for “wanting high prices” for their insurance buddies. kickbacks or tit for tat, etc.
they also were labeled as doing nothing ot make plans affordable for those that weren’t covered. voluntarily or not.
well, the higher deductibles and higher premiums have made those who couldn’t afford insurance to skip it and pay the much smaller penalty. those who just didn’t want it see the big price tag for something most of them still don’t want and will pay the penalty instead. How did obamacare fix this?
now that obamacare is making insurance more for most people, if this was true, why aren’t all the evil republicans who wanted higher insurance costs for their insurance ‘buddies’, why aren’t any now supporting and promoting obamacare plans?
if we truly did want higher prices for consumers, and if we truly wanted to keep those who weren’t covered, to remain not covered, why aren’t the republicans singing the praises of obamacare? It’s supposedly doing exactly what the democrats screamed (literally screamed) the republicanss wanted. If that’s true why no republicans advocating and promoting it?
By the time the demomedia are finished with you the whole country will think they’re better off withOUT your genetically defective child anyways.
Remember the slime they threw at Palin’s way for having the audacity to KEEP her downs baby after the in-utero diagnosis?
It will be ILLEGAL to keep those babies soon enough. It already is in China and other countries with ‘lovely’ nationalized healthcare. No mention of the high rate of false positives, you can just get pregnant again or something.
I’ll hold weekly bake sales on the town square to raise money for her tubal ligation.
The fewer Sandra’s the better.
OK...I am STEALING that....”RESET”....that is very good!
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