My wife and I just got our updates from Kaiser telling us what our 2014 rates will be. Her monthly has been $168 this year, mine $150. We have a high deductible. We are generally healthy people who don’t go to the doctor often. I barely ever go. The insurance is in case of a major catastrophe.
Well, now, because of Obamacare, my wife’s rate is gong to $302 per month and mine is jumping to $284.
I am canceling insurance for us and I am not paying any fucking penalty. What the hell kind of reform is this?
Daily Kos: Obamacare will double my monthly premium (according to Kaiser)
h/t to Dave G
Did people really believe the BS that Obamacare would be rainbows and kittens?
They believed him about “Rev.” Wright, and they have believed every one of his lies since. A generation of voters who are like one of those little bunnies that the magician puts to sleep by turning it on its back and stroking it once. Instantly hypnotizable by the Master’s voice. They have no will of their own (though they think they do).
They believed he was from Kenya, before they didn’t.
Glory to our socialists utopia, now hand over your wallet comrade.
Wait til he sees his deductible !!!
We live in a field of dreams, guided by one-world government propaganda.
George Orwell started writing his warning to the public in 1946 (“Nineteen Eighty-Four”) only months after the UN was formed on 24 Oct 1946 with USSR holding the strongest hand at the negotiating table.
See one-page synopsis on web page.
Oliver K. Manuel
Don’t these Libtards understand that there is no cancelling and not paying a penalty? WHat do they think those 18,000 new IRS goons are for?
Obamacare Increases Premiums by As Much As 305 Percent
EXCERPT:
The numbers are finally out for Obamacare premiums and they look expensive. From Forbes (emphasis added):
“Based on a Manhattan Institute analysis of the HHS numbers, Obamacare will increase underlying insurance rates for younger men by an average of 97 to 99 percent, and for younger women by an average of 55 to 62 percent. Worst off is North Carolina, which will see individual-market rates triple for women, and quadruple for men.”
http://taxfoundation.org/blog/obamacare-increases-premiums-much-305-percent
I am amazed at the number of people who think that Medicare is free healthcare for the “elderly.” So don’t be surprised to find out that millions believe that Obamacare is free. If you try to tell them that it is a trojan horse designed to fail so that universal government healthcare can be slid into place to stop the pain they look at you like you are some kind of alien.
To those of you who think that Medicare is cheap, let me clue you in. My wife and I currently pay together just under $600 a month when supplemental premiums are added in. Thats after all you youngsters pay into the system every month. Medicare pays a maximum of 80 percent of your medical expenses Increasingly, Medicare pays for less care, the doctor is being paid less, and you pay 100% of your prescription costs. Increasingly, good doctors will not see us if we do not have supplemental insurance coverage because they do not want to have to go after their patients to pay the other 20 percent that they might not be able to afford.
So what part of Obamacare is supposed to be free? I need to stop before I get out of control here.
Remember Obummer said our rates would drop $2400/year. In 2014 my plan increase is $3420. I want to shove my premium up his —!
I think this is all intentional, paving the way for ‘single’ payer (or however many people who are actually working, who will end up being the payers).
I think it is just insane, and (unintentionally, but inescapably) paving the way for war.
The powers that be (i.e. the federal government) know we have mess for a health care system. They know that it costs more than $20K per household, they know that Medicare collections only cover a third of the cost, they know that a third of the expense is wasted in a variety of ways, they know that the health care providers game to system to maximize revenue and they know that the median household income is only $50K per year. They also know that low wage hourly workers who have insurance through their place of employment have 39% of their compensation go to this one benefit and the cost of that benefit package goes down as proportion of their compensation as salary is increased. in other words if healthcare costs with employee provided coverage were considered a tax, it is aggressively regressive.
The biggest problem with the ACA is that just tries to spread the costs around differently but it does not get at the fundamental problem (which it had a big hand in creating) with all the cost shifting that goes around. Since most on the left really want a single payer system anyway, they probably look at the ACA as a stepping stone to their ultimate goal. I expect that most of these folks don’t care if the ACA works or not but if the roll-out of healthcare.gove continues at its current pace, they might find a lot more resistance to putting the government in charge of everything.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sTfZJBYo1I
Anytime you use a middle man in a financial transaction the cost goes up. Plain and simple.The middle man ain’t doing it for free, and if the Gov’t became the middle man it won’t be free either, far from it. There would be a massive unionized bureaucracy (which we get a small glimpse of under the ACA) that would only grow and consume more and more of our money, none of which would be actually paying for healthcare.