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In rural Georgia, federal health insurance marketplace proves unaffordable to many
The Washington Post's Health & Science Section ^ | February 1, 2014 | Jordan Rau

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.

“We’re not real happy with the way things are going in our neck of the woods,” said David Hardin, Mullins’s 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 ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: georgia; medicine; obamacare; obesity
Down here we have another term for figures like that, even the lowest one. We call it PITI.
1 posted on 02/03/2014 10:41:59 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

$31,818 for the family of four annual premium? How can anyone afford this?


2 posted on 02/03/2014 11:36:53 PM PST by rawhide
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To: rawhide

Just sell your first-born into slavery, like the Romans would’ve done.... LOL


3 posted on 02/03/2014 11:42:52 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Jealousy is when you count someone else's blessings instead of your own.)
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To: rawhide

They can’t.

I couldn’t, so I dropped to a high deductible plan with less coverage.


4 posted on 02/04/2014 12:02:54 AM PST by AlmaKing
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Only $940 a month?


5 posted on 02/04/2014 12:29:22 AM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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To: AlmaKing

Many of these obamacare plans have a 12000 deductible


6 posted on 02/04/2014 1:31:43 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: rawhide

$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.)


7 posted on 02/04/2014 4:20:47 AM PST by Peet (Oderint dum metuant)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Libtard program names are the exact opposite of what they actually do.

(Sheesh, for $2654 a month you could buy a mansion.)


8 posted on 02/04/2014 5:31:27 AM PST by CPOSharky (If a libtards lips are moving...)
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To: driftdiver

Yes, my family deductible went from $300 to $6000 last year in the anticipation of Obamacare.


9 posted on 02/04/2014 10:57:56 AM PST by AlmaKing
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