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Insurers predict 100% to 400% Obamacare rate explosion
Washington Examiner ^
| 5/14/2013
| Paul Bedard
Posted on 05/14/2013 3:26:56 PM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley
Recall if you will, Obama care is a tax. It is paid by those who purchase insurance for expenses of those who do not.
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posted on
05/14/2013 4:11:44 PM PDT
by
bert
((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 .....History is a process, not an event)
To: I want the USA back
"Maybe the rate increases will finally get the low-information crowd to yank their heads back out of their a$$es and realize what a big mistake they made in Nov 2008 and 2012." Are you kidding? Do you really think the people who didn't know this was going to happen are really going to understand why it's happening? The MSM will blame the evil insurers and the Republicans, and the sheep will buy it hook, line and sinker regardless of how clearly it's explained to them.
This is all by design and just one step towards a single payer system.
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posted on
05/14/2013 4:14:01 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: markomalley
This is how the Soviet Union lost the cold war.
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posted on
05/14/2013 4:21:08 PM PDT
by
Track9
(hey Kalid.. kalid.. bang you're dead)
To: markomalley
I think this is part of the plan, when it cannot be made affordable the government will take over and we will just have a total government health care system. I think that was the goal all along.
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posted on
05/14/2013 4:24:47 PM PDT
by
Tammy8
(~Secure the border and deport all illegals- do it now! ~ Support our Troops!~)
To: TexasFreeper2009
And the part timers will have to pay their own premiums, under penalty of law.
FUBO!
The intent is to destroy the working and middle class. We will then have a small nomenklatura, and everyone else the proletariat, dependent on the “generousity” of the State.
The People’s Cube website is no longer satire, it is an indication of things to come. Kruschev was right all along.
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posted on
05/14/2013 4:33:43 PM PDT
by
Fred Hayek
(The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
To: GrandJediMasterYoda
What will be interesting will be the unemployment percentage after the commie care goes into effect. I think the record is 23% in 1932. If were lucky maybe itll only hit 22% and then when Democrats blame the RINO party, the RINOs wont have to apologize too much. I thought we were close to 25% now.
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posted on
05/14/2013 4:38:39 PM PDT
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: OneWingedShark
But just think all of those frustrated artists can now quit their day job take up the paint brush and still have health insurance. /sarc
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posted on
05/14/2013 4:41:58 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: TexasFreeper2009
I believe you’re correct.
The “29er” strategy will give the regime improved employment stats to show off.
Nobody asks if it’s part time jobs padding the stats.
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posted on
05/14/2013 4:44:18 PM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
To: markomalley
Take a huge bureaucratic entity like an insurance company and stick it in between the consumer and the doctor. A big chunk of change is taken out of the middle and so the price of medical care rises.
Now put an even bigger bureaucratic entity like the federal government in between the the doctor and the insurance company and the insurance company and the patient.
400% is a lowball figure.
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posted on
05/14/2013 4:48:44 PM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
(All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
To: markomalley
The year before last my rates went up 100%. I had to change plans because I could no longer afford the plan I had for years. Last year my rates only went up 5%, but the coverage dropped by quite a bit. By next year I suspect I won’t be able to afford anything but disaster coverage...
To: markomalley
“The 17 companies include Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield and Kaiser Foundation.”
Aetna is a LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY......the 2008 “Bailout” never happened...and the whole push by these so called “insurance” companies is to fund the phony paper...AGAIN.
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posted on
05/14/2013 4:59:20 PM PDT
by
Varsity Flight
(Extortion-Care is the Government Work-Camp: Arbeitsziehungslager)
To: markomalley
The question is what will happen when rates skyrocket? People will not pay for it so what is going to happen? Repeal? People give up insurance?
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posted on
05/14/2013 4:59:32 PM PDT
by
Vision
(We are not descended from fearful men)
To: central_va
But just think all of those frustrated artists can now quit their day job take up the paint brush and still have health insurance. /sarc Oddly enough, from what I understand the talented artist-type can make a decent wage [more likely commission]... and it's probably a more marketable skill than much of the craptastic degrees they're handing out now (feminine studies or 'education' degrees)... but then, you might call me bitter and hatefilled because I look forward to the Education Bubble burst.
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posted on
05/14/2013 5:42:56 PM PDT
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: markomalley
I don’t see what the big deal is.
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posted on
05/14/2013 8:41:15 PM PDT
by
slouper
To: markomalley
To: markomalley
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posted on
05/14/2013 9:55:21 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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