Correct. Obamacare is switching the trolley away from the one person and towards the five.
I just got my insurance package for 2015. My rates are going up 25%. I'll now be paying over $6000 to cover my family for the year.
I suspect a lot of people are going to choose to go without and people will die as a result.
$6000? That’s darn cheap. Thank your lucky stars that’s ALL it is. We are approaching $16000 in premiums alone for hubby and me.
Our office sells health insurance (among a number of other financial services products and functions).
I was listening to one of the reps on the phone the other day, helping someone who called in. She told the person, “realistically, your monthly premium for your family of four, is going to be in the range of $1,300 to $2,000 for next year”.
I gulped. People in Omaha, Nebraska do not have that kind of money for health insurance premiums. That is much more than most pay for housing, would take one worker’s entire take-home paycheck just to pay the insurance premiums... not even considering the deductibles and co-pays.
This is what 0bamacare has created, with the cost-shifting, subsidies, and mandates for coverage people do not want or need, the insurance is not affordable for most people who have to go it alone, without subsidies and/or employer assistance with the premiums.
Before any deductible right?
If people don’t get care because they think they can’t because they don’t have insurance then they are too stupid to live.