Posted on 10/20/2014 11:45:24 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Pete Spain knew he and his wife would have to find a new health plan for 2015 since their current policy is being discontinued at the end of the year. But the letter explaining it still contained a surprise: Buying a comparable plan next year would cost the Bridgeport couple nearly 58 percent more.
“That’s just a bigger hit than we expected,” he said.
The Spains are among more than 60,000 Connecticut residents with health plans that don’t meet the requirements of the federal health law. Many of them are receiving notices that their plans are being discontinued and that comparable, Obamacare-compliant plans will cost significantly more.
“I’m seeing in some cases 100 percent increases,” said Tim Tracy Jr., a Fairfield insurance broker and president of the Connecticut Chapter of the National Association of Health Underwriters.
Sound familiar? It should. Last year, with many provisions of Obamacare poised to take effect, insurance companies discontinued health plans that didn't meet the new coverage requirements, and many customers faced higher prices for new plans. Anger about losing insurance policies created a political firestorm on the heels of the health law’s first sign-up period for coverage.
(Excerpt) Read more at ctmirror.org ...
Using the table on their interactive graph, my wife and I would be about 10% higher that we were before this began. But, we’d have considerably more out of pocket expense each year.
Democrats made the hell, BURN IN IT.
“I feel good about myself as a good person because I supported the Affordable Care Act which gives free or affordable healthcare to everyone, not just the rich.”
End of liberal thought process.
Any further discussion will be met with angry namecalling.
...and these rates are much lower than they would have been if the federal government hadn’t gone to the insurers and told them to recalculate including the risk corridor money (that they hadn’t received).
“I feel good about myself as a good person because I supported the Affordable Care Act which gives free or affordable healthcare to everyone, not just the rich.”
End of liberal thought process.
Any further discussion will be met with angry namecalling.
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This is changing as those are the very people being sandbagged by their own actions in the name of self-esteem.
Little did they know that having a job and scraping to make ends meet would make them the rich, not entitled to anything free or affordable. Now, they are discovering that no one they know is getting anything free or affordable. I had a friend who is quite comfortable tell me, after her husband was forced into retirement which ended their job-provided coverage, that she no longer automatically schedules dental hygiene appointments because they cost too much. A liberal whose identity rests with the Party made an appointment with a physical therapist when she couldn’t obtain a massage appointment immediately when she wanted one. She neglected to obtain an MD script and prior authorization. wait until she discovers what such an appointment really costs when not covered by insurance. Someone else I know (2x O voter) was coerced into a chiropractic referral appointment for a specific modality. She did not receive that modality, but the chiro to whom she was referred instead delivered a smorgasbord of treatments, all itemized, for a whopping $660, uncovered since her husband’s coverage has a high deductible which was unmet. These are all individual wake-up calls and in aggregate, are powerful.
Unfortunately, as Rush says, this won’t make them conservatives and they will continue to submit to the beatings while their morale disintegrates. They will need to experience Clinton Care for a further 6 years before they -—maybe—— realize TANSTAAFL.
These types of stories are almost appearing daily. Good to keep reminding the electorate what a failure Obamacare is.
Oh, I forgot the ultimate argument of
“and you’re a poopyhead for not wanting to give people free healthcare”.
Our 10k deductable per person catastrophic coverage premium just tripled...
Guess Ins Co’s don’t want any business.
Thank a CommieCare Voter Today.
Since Obamacare is the biggest financial fraud of the 20th-21st centuries...
Isn't it obvious that a class action suit is in order against both the entire Obama administration and the Democrat congress which passed it?
There are two issues...
First the issue of "standing." wouldn't 80,000,000 residents who have been financially devastated qualify?
Second, as to the charges --- gutting a law that was approved by the house, gutted by the senate and replaced by a clearly revenue-related law thus originating in the Senate make it a clearly unconstitutional maneuver qualifying as Unconstitutional fraud?
The Enron and Badoff criminals were boy scouts compared to what Dirty Harry and Princess Pelosi dumped on the American public. Life sentences are too mild a sentence to pay for the permanent (?) grief and misery they have inflicted on the total U.S. economy.
"You have to let us pass it to find out what's in it!"
Really?
"If you like your current insurance, you can keep your current insurance! PERIOD!
Really?
Net taxpayers must file a class action suit before things get even worse. I would contribute $5 a month forever to prosecute these criminals; all of them.
Let's see... $5 times 40,000,000 a month...
Wouldn't that buy the best legal prosecutorial attorneys in the U.S.?
And the delusional criminals better not even THINK of using taxpayer money to defend themselves against criminal charges!
Count me in!!!
Massage?
Are you sh****g me?
There is a medical group somewhere I read about a year or two ago in Utah? Idaho(?) that has a schedule of all medical treatments and surgical procedures that is 1/20 on average than what government controlled medical and surgical procedures now "cost."
I wish I could remember the details...
The Oklahoma Surgery Center
http://www.surgerycenterok.com/
you could fly there, stay in the nicest hotel and still save a bucket of cash, without insurance.
Since they cancelled my high deductible (10K) policy a year ago, my wife and I are going without, but if we have time and not life threatening this is we are going should something happen.
Well, the money to pay for all the illegals health care has to come from somewhere doesn’t it.
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You voted for hope and change Ct.
Hope you have enough spare change...
My husband is a medical massage therapist. He works w/MDs on referral, also on their families and on the MDs, as well. I don’t have room/time here to list the actual serious musculoskeletal conditions that improve vastly with the correct anatomically-based soft tissue treatments. He charges $60/hr, as opposed to $350 for a physical therapist’s work if done in a hospital.
One of my husband’s clients is an MD who works in a practice exactly as you describe. They are everywhere. There is a soft-tissue therapist in that practice, as well, but they are not trained to the same level as my husband.
The client who went on their own to a private practice PT has a chronic condition and wanted a treatment outside of her regularly scheduled ones. Unfortunately, we had nothing available at the time she wanted.
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