But that can’t be! The talking heads are all saying prices are coming down!
Ted Cruz needs to stop calling them Private Exchanges. How can something forced on us by the federal government be considered “private”?
What type of hospice is available? At my age and medical condition, that’s really important to me.
Bronze plan has a 40% copay. Better hope to not get sick or injured.
Great, the demographic that has the lion's share of the money in this country gets another break.
If many or most of healthy younger types don’t sign up, opting for the fine; and most with preexisting conditions do sign up, are the insurance carriers going to absorb the losses or the taxpayer?
Does the term “adverse selection” exist anymore? I suppose we can’t talk about that or the government subsidizing those who lie about their income, which can’t be verified. The Feds gather tons of data and somehow can’t determine how much you earned last year?
These prices will only continue to raise-these are only “estimates” from government bureaucrats..
When have you ever known government bureaucrats to be correct, especially of a law that their master wants, but the rest of us don’t.
(This is only the “good” propaganda). The truth will be far worse..
I for one think it refreshing that the young healthy Obama voters should carry the costs of healthcare for the elderly sick and poor
isn’t this why they think of themselves as democrats?
walk the walk!
Obama: "Premiums Will Decrease 3000% So You Should Get A Raise When Healthcare Is Passed"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019102/posts
Whatever with the premiums...has anyone even considered what a disaster the deductibles and copays are??
“If you buy a bronze plan — the cheapest available for anyone 30 and older — you’ll have a $3,250 deductible for individual coverage; it’s $6,500 for family coverage. Once you spend that much on medical care, including medication, you’ll still have to pay 40 percent of the cost for many services, including visits to specialists, outpatient hospital services, emergency room visits and lab work.
You’ll also have to pay 40 percent of the cost of non-generic drugs. But each customer’s out-of-pocket costs will be capped at $6,250, or $12,500 for a family plan.
Silver plans have similar deductibles to the bronze ones — $3,000 for medical services, plus $400 for prescription drugs; both of those figures are doubled for family plans.”
This is a complete disaster. Does anyone think ANYONE has the first $3250 to cough up, on top of the premiums? If your kid gets pink eye, that entire bill is yours. Some pink eye meds are over $100. And then of course, you get it, and you have to throw out the makeup. Forget about oral antibiotics. If your bug is resistant to amoxicillin or penicillin, you better have a few hundred cash available. Or I guess room on the credit card, if you go that way.
The only positive is that people will shop around for better prices, since its their money. Everyone should print out the list of $4 generics at Walmart and bring it to their first appointment, to be kept alongside the running commentary on sexual and gun preferences.
Lord Have Mercy! The unintended consequences are endless. Why would any drug company invest in any new drug research? There is zero point, because the number of people who can pay out of pocket for such a thing is too small to justify. Why would any retail pharmacy stock anything expensive, since its only gonna go out of date. Even if you have fabulous coverage, no one else does. You might be able to get it ordered, maybe not.
And lol at Medicaid... Everyone will try to get on that by making just a little less than they do now, and that will go broke soon enough. I can only imagine how the state HMO’s are positioning themselves right now (like in Virginia, we have Virginia Premier and its lesser sister plans.)
I wonder how Mr. Obama will enjoy reading about his legacy. He’s young enough to watch it unfold.
What’s going to be darkly hilarious over the next couple of weeks are the shrieks of the low-information dullards who thought Obamacare was going to be FREE!
Idiots.
MAKE DC LISTEN: TELL YOUR SENATORS TO OPPOSE CLOTURE ON H.J. RES 59
We must oppose cloture on H.J. Res 59, so that Harry Reid and Senate Democrats cannot sneak in funding for Obamacare. We need you to call your Senators right now: tell them to oppose cloture on H.J. Res 59 and remind them that a vote for cloture IS a for funding Obamacare.
State Senator Party Phone
AK Mark Begich D (202) 224-3004
AK Lisa Murkowski R (202) 224-6665
AL Jeff Sessions R (202) 224-4124
AL Richard C. Shelby R (202) 224-5744
AR John Boozman R (202) 224-4843
AR Mark L. Pryor D (202) 224-2353
AZ Jeff Flake R (202) 224-4521
AZ John McCain R (202) 224-2235
CA Barbara Boxer D (202) 224-3553
CA Dianne Feinstein D (202) 224-3841
CO Michael F. Bennet D (202) 224-5852
CO Mark Udall D (202) 224-5941
CT Richard Blumenthal D (202) 224-2823
CT Christopher Murphy D (202) 224-4041
DE Thomas R. Carper D (202) 224-2441
DE Christopher A. Coons D (202) 224-5042
FL Bill Nelson D (202) 224-5274
FL Marco Rubio R (202) 224-3041
GA Saxby Chambliss R (202) 224-3521
GA Johnny Isakson R (202) 224-3643
HI Mazie K. Hirono D (202) 224-6361
HI Brian Schatz D (202) 224-3934
IA Chuck Grassley R (202) 224-3744
IA Tom Harkin D (202) 224-3254
ID Mike Crapo R (202) 224-6142
ID James E. Risch R (202) 224-2752
IL Richard J. Durbin D (202) 224-2152
IL Mark Kirk R (202) 224-2854
IN Daniel Coats R (202) 224-5623
IN Joe Donnelly D (202) 224-4814
KS Jerry Moran R (202) 224-6521
KS Pat Roberts R (202) 224-4774
KY Mitch McConnell R (202) 224-2541
KY Rand Paul R (202) 224-4343
LA Mary L. Landrieu D (202) 224-5824
LA David Vitter R (202) 224-4623
MA Edward Markey D (202) 224-2742
MA Elizabeth Warren D (202) 224-4543
MD Benjamin L. Cardin D (202) 224-4524
MD Barbara A. Mikulski D (202) 224-4654
ME Susan M. Collins R (202) 224-2523
ME Angus S. King I (202) 224-5344
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MN Amy Klobuchar D (202) 224-3244
MO Roy Blunt R (202) 224-5721
MO Claire McCaskill D (202) 224-6154
MS Thad Cochran R (202) 224-5054
MS Roger F. Wicker R (202) 224-6253
MT Max Baucus D (202) 224-2651
MT Jon Tester D (202) 224-2644
NC Richard Burr R (202) 224-3154
NC Kay R. Hagan D (202) 224-6342
ND Heidi Heitkamp D (202) 224-2043
ND John Hoeven R (202) 224-2551
NE Deb Fischer R (202) 224-6551
NE Mike Johanns R (202) 224-4224
NH Kelly Ayotte R (202) 224-3324
NH Jeanne Shaheen D (202) 224-2841
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NJ Robert Menendez D (202) 224-4744
NM Martin Heinrich D (202) 224-5521
NM Tom Udall D (202) 224-6621
NV Dean Heller R (202) 224-6244
NV Harry Reid D (202) 224-3542
NY Kirsten E. Gillibrand D (202) 224-4451
NY Charles E. Schumer D (202) 224-6542
OH Sherrod Brown D (202) 224-2315
OH Rob Portman R (202) 224-3353
OK Tom Coburn R (202) 224-5754
OK James M. Inhofe R (202) 224-4721
OR Jeff Merkley D (202) 224-3753
OR Ron Wyden D (202) 224-5244
PA Robert P. Casey D (202) 224-6324
PA Patrick J. Toomey R (202) 224-4254
RI Jack Reed D (202) 224-4642
RI Sheldon Whitehouse D (202) 224-2921
SC Lindsey Graham R (202) 224-5972
SC Tim Scott R (202) 224-6121
SD Tim Johnson D (202) 224-5842
SD John Thune R (202) 224-2321
TN Lamar Alexander R (202) 224-4944
TN Bob Corker R (202) 224-3344
TX John Cornyn R (202) 224-2934
UT Orrin G. Hatch R (202) 224-5251
UT Mike Lee R (202) 224-5444
VA Tim Kaine D (202) 224-4024
VA Mark R. Warner D (202) 224-2023
VT Patrick J. Leahy D (202) 224-4242
VT Bernard Sanders I (202) 224-5141
WA Maria Cantwell D (202) 224-3441
WA Patty Murray D (202) 224-2621
WI Tammy Baldwin D (202) 224-5653
WI Ron Johnson R (202) 224-5323
WV Joe Manchin D (202) 224-3954
WV John D. Rockefeller D (202) 224-6472
WY John Barrasso R (202) 224-6441
WY Michael B. Enzi R (202) 224-3424
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I wonder how many 911 calls would be handled by IVR?
Press 1 for Spanish, 2 for Arabic, 3 for Mandarin, 4 for Pashto, 5 for Somalian, 6 for Farsi, 7 for Urdu, 8 for ...
Enter the diagnostic code you are calling about. For a directory of diagnostic codes, go to obamacare~dc.gov.
Buenas noches, compadre!
For our family our total monthly payment would go from $2174 under our current coverage to $6112 under Obamacare.
Holy crap!!!
How can prices vary from city to cite and state to state? Income tax rates are the same everywhere. Why shouldn’t this “tax” be the same?