[Nachum]

Welcome to Faaaantasy Island!

[woweeitsme]

I have a neighbor who got a rebate check. He’s in his 50’s, smokes a lot, has a pretty bad cough, but he never went to the doctor this year.

He was pretty excited about getting that rebate check, though.

[danielmryan]

Did they cherry-pick the time period? Obamacare is being rolled in by stages: for example, the Obamatax doesn't kick in until next year. Weren't the "benefits" front-loaded and the real bite deferred?

[danielmryan]

Come to think of it, did they cherry-pick the group of "savers"?

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

Illegal aliens welcome this news.. And the many millions more who enter illegally to get their free stuff!!!

[Revolting cat!]

That’s how the tyrants work. Hand in hand with the media. Your insurance is going up? Don’t you read the news? Everybody’s is going down. You’re alone, buster.

[tomkat]

             

             

[WP Lonestar]

Just another example of the propagandist pisses on our legs and telling us it’s raining

[WP Lonestar]

Just another example of the propagandists pissing on our legs and telling us it’s raining

[WP Lonestar]

Just another example of the propagandists pissing on our legs and telling us it’s raining

[TigersEye]

My mother’s Medicare supplemental insurance went up 17% last year and another 6.8% on top of that increase this year. Thanks for the savings! (a holes)

[newzjunkey]

It saved me money by pricing me out of the health insurance market entirely.

I still have no coverage. It's unclear what my employer will do.

[JediJones]

The healthcare law attempts to address this by requiring insurers to spend at least 80 cents of every dollar they collect in premiums on medical care, rather than on administrative expenses

Isn't the purpose of an insurance company to save up money so that they can have extra to spend when medical needs rise in the future? If a company spends lower than average in payouts in a given year and wants to save that money for a future, potentially more expensive year, it sounds like they can't do that according to this law. So when they have an expensive year and have less savings to tap into because of these mandated refunds, premiums will have to go up even more.

[JediJones]

As usual with the MSM you have to look way at the bottom of the article to find a fact or two that counters the Obama worshiping premise.

There is substantial evidence that premium increases are driven largely by rising medical costs, not profit-taking. And insurance companies continue to vigorously oppose the standards.

"The MLR completely ignores the real driver of premium increases," said Robert Zirkelbach, a spokesman for America's Health Insurance Plans, the industry's Washington lobbying arm.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Sure, Obamacare saved us money the same way that Hitler saved Germany from the Jews.

[US_MilitaryRules]

WOW!!! 5 or 6 bucks per person!!! WOOOHOOO!!!!

[Scotswife]

ohhhhh....see what they did there?

They’re calculating favorable calculations before the monstrosity fully kicks in.

[Tzimisce]

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[tumblindice]

Comrades! We have glorious news for you! El A Times

[hattend]

Consumers saved nearly $1.5 billion in 2011 as a result of rules in President Obama´s healthcare law that limit what insurance companies can spend on expenses unrelated to medical care, including profit,

Profit is an expense. Boy, are we in trouble.

[Redcloak]

Our company received an Obamacare rebate of ~$1000 from our health insurance carrier. Of that, roughly $500 would have been divided among the employees. (Half goes to the company since the company pays for half of the bill.) But, because we all have different plans, and thus paid differing amounts into the employee share of the bill, it would have cost us most of that $500 to pay the bookkeeper to figure out who gets what. Our guesstimate was that each employee would have gotten a check averaging $6. We decided to put our big Obamacare windfall toward next year’s bill instead.