Posted on 12/05/2012 6:06:24 PM PST by Nachum
More proof that Cauliphonya doesn’t need to “legalize” recreational marijuana.
Who wrote this? Ashton Kucher? Or Charlie Sheen?
Really? So how does that jive with my health insurance premium increasing 18% for 2013?
Lollolol....
Meanwhile, Obama blew through $8 TRILLION like it was nothing. And is demanding more.
Consumers is the new word for illegal aliens? I thought it was undocumented workers.
I have this idea....if we could government subsidize a massive amount of weed-growth in America, and just hand out marijuana to everyone, on a massive scale....then we’d smoke enough not to notice how bad our health was, and die earlier from ailments that were never noticed...then we’d save a ton of money on unnecessary medical treatment. I admit, it’s an idea under development, but I think it has bold opportunity.
Definitely alternate-universe ping!
My insurance for next year just went up, too.
Peanuts to what it is costing us in higher premiums.
Of course it will cost your employer 100X as much and lead to the people saving 1.5 billion to be laid off. But hey penny-wise and pound foolish is how the dims operate.......
My Blue Cross/Blue Shield doubled.
And how many lives does it cost? I think that’s the question people should be asking
Meanwhile my Kaiser bill went up another 60 bucks..but not a shock since Kaiser loves Obama and gave millions to his campaign
What rebate? My Medicare supplement is going up 15%.
Saved what?
My premium went 100% my husbands 25%.
Medically necessary meds are no longer covered.......where do these people (LA Times) live, in fairyland?
Rubbish.
The propaganda mills are running overtime and exceeding fine.
Maybe consumers saved some money but producers got smoked. If "consumers" saved $1.5 billion and there are 310 MM people in the US and 40 MM do not have healthcare coverage, then consumers saved 1500 million divided by 270 million which is grand total of $5.56 each.
Did your healthcare go up more than $5.56?
Thought so.
So they have to collect larger premiums in order to make up the lost administration costs?
The average cost of an employer-provided family health plan jumped 4% to $15,745 between 2011 and 2012, a cost shared by employers and employees, according to an annual survey released in September by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research & Educational Trust.
So...which is true? Did the average cost jump 4% or did consumers save $1.5 billion? Is this Democrat math where the cost WOULD HAVE jumped by 1.5 billion more (says Ms. Chloe) if it weren't for Obama's wonderful plan?
will repeat the propaganda.
My insurance went up by nearly 100%. They claimed it was because of my age. My birthday was 4 months away when the first bill with the new rate came...
My coverage is getting cut and it’ll cost me more. Who exactly is getting these supposed “savings”?
It sure as heck ain’t me...
The saddest part of it all is that in the past few years these Democrat freaks actually started believing this kind of putrid vomit that they spew is the truth.
It is a mental disorder and the inmates are running the asylum.
yeah, right... 
Very funny UTUBE....girl pretends to be black....tries to makes a dental appointment. Notice the way name top left. rhttp://www.youtube.com/embed/J2NqqL0CnaU?rel=0ofl.
“Consumers” here must mean illegal aliens, welfare slugs & public employees.
I imagine the writer of this article actually believes the cashiers at Kohl’s when they look at your receipt and say you saved “X” amount of dollars. Not sure how obamacare saved us any money when my son’s premium went from about $165 to $270 every month, that 40 dollar rebate didn’t make up for the extra $1,200 a year hike in premium.
“”Much of those savings — an estimated $1.1 billion — came in rebates to consumers required because insurers had exceeded the required limits””
REBATES? Prove it!!!! We must have a lot of new millionaires running around then if this is true!!!
Must be like winning the lottery, right?
The same math that tells us how many jobs were “saved” by obama’s economic policies.
A few more years and consumers will really save big bucks-—no medical services, no food, no fuel, no electricity, etc, etc...
A few more years and consumers will really save big bucks-—no medical services, no food, no fuel, no electricity, etc, etc...
Chocolate Rations are up...
BLOODY NOT LIKELY - more like COSTS CONSUMERS 25 BILLION MORE!
If you tell a lie often enough....
Idiots. I”m worried about finding a doctor in the future - especially if there is an emergency. Who in that situation would be happy they were suckered into thinking they were gonna save a few bucks?
Just think of yourself as a really thrifty corpse.
And 50 million jobs were added. And the chocolate ration was increased to 20 grams.
You still got it? The better half's employer dropped it and they are a big player and we got shoved into an HMO.
No Oboingo, I didn't get to keep my policy...
Where’s my check????
Just think of all the savings we will all enjoy when the death panels are fully up and functioning. We will mercy kill ourselves right into prosperity..rolleyes..
“Really? So how does that jive with my health insurance premium increasing 18% for 2013?”
23% here...
She is good! I would never have known that was a white gurl. That is exactly how the entitlement society thinks and speaks!
It’s Like driving 400 miles so you can save $.50 on Hostess Twinkies. It’s liberal math guys you won’t be able to figure it out with your pocket calculators.
Drill rolls eyes...
Huh ?
Last year my daughter’s health insurance premium tripled. She is 26. She dropped it because she couldn’t afford it. So who is saving all this money because I sure don’t see it.
In the military one of the pervasive buzz phrases is “to save money”... that something will be eliminated in order to [ostensibly] cut waste/abuse. Of course the purpose of the phrase is to plant the false notion that the government is trying to be wise and responsible in how it spends the taxpayers’ money.
The accurate translation is really “we are wasting just as much if not more than before, but we need to pump more money into boondoggles like diversity and green projects.” Or simply, that the current crop of bureaucrats needs to justify their jobs by rearranging the deck chairs, to be moved back again when that scheme doesn’t work, and then back and forth until eternity (or an iceberg).
When the government claims to “save money” is it always heralded as a good thing, but when a corporation attempts to cut costs/save money it is demonized by the government as the epitome of evil and greed for making the little guy suffer.
I expect this this tactic to be used heavily as Obamacare cuts access to care and the quality of doctors and services necessarily plummets. We will be be told how virtuous our government is for “saving money”, while the “little guys” are dropping like flies. Meanwhile that evil Wal-Mart is killing people by having them work holidays...
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