Posted on 02/03/2014 10:41:59 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
ALBANY, Ga. If Lee Mullins lived in Pittsburgh, he could buy mid-level health coverage for his family for $940 a month. If he lived in Beverly Hills, he would pay $1,405.
But Mullins, who builds custom swimming pools, lives in southwest Georgia. Here, a similar health plan for his family of four costs $2,654 a month.
This largely agrarian pocket of Georgia, where peanuts and pecans are major crops and hunters bag alligators up to 10 feet long, is one of the most expensive places in the nation to buy health insurance through the new online marketplaces created by the federal health law. The only places with higher premiums are the Colorado mountain resort areas around Aspen and Vail, a high-cost-of-living area unlike Georgia.
Were not real happy with the way things are going in our neck of the woods, said David Hardin, Mullinss insurance broker.
All the dynamics that drive up health costs have coalesced here in southwestern Georgia, pushing up premiums. Expensive chronic conditions such as obesity and cancer are common among the quarter million people in this region....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
$31,818 for the family of four annual premium? How can anyone afford this?
Just sell your first-born into slavery, like the Romans would’ve done.... LOL
They can’t.
I couldn’t, so I dropped to a high deductible plan with less coverage.
Only $940 a month?
Many of these obamacare plans have a 12000 deductible
$31,818 for the family of four annual premium? How can anyone afford this?
That’s easy! See, we named the bill “Affordable” care act and our intentions were the BEST, so it must be true!!! If you can’t see that it is because you’re RAAAAAaaaaaaaacist!!!11!!!!1!’lebenty
/demonrat
(Liberalism is a mental disorder.)
Libtard program names are the exact opposite of what they actually do.
(Sheesh, for $2654 a month you could buy a mansion.)
Yes, my family deductible went from $300 to $6000 last year in the anticipation of Obamacare.
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