Posted on 08/22/2016 11:33:39 AM PDT by jiggyboy
If you rely on health insurance provided by companies aligned with the Affordable Care Act marketplace in Pennsylvania, prepare yourself for sticker shock when it’s time to pay those premiums in the fall.
Valley residents enrolled in the ACA marketplace can choose from programs offered by Capital Advantage, Geisinger, Highmark, UPMC Health Options, Geisinger Health Plan, Geisinger Quality Options, and Keystone Health Plan Central. All are proposing significant rate increases for monthly premiums in 2017.
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Aetna recently pulled out of PA completely.
Some of the counties Marino and fellow most-trusted Representative Lou Barletta represent (e.g. Lackawanna County) are polling recently as having swung 20+ points Republican compared to the 2012 election. This will make a YUGE difference in PA results November.
I wish that all Republicans would use the term “DEMOCRATCare” instead of Obamacare during this election cycle.
Ping.
What’s the deal? Are the insurance agencies hauling in mega bucks or is it all being leaked out other where.
Trump wins Pennsylvania.
You’re likely correct.
I read and heard that just before BREXIT, the EU decided to do away with English toasters and electric teapots, but, for what reason I don’t know. That would’ve done it for me.
Health insurance is a much bigger deal, of course.
It is only what conservatives had predicted for years — that the requirement that they cover pre-existing conditions would wreck the business plan of an insurance company, that Obama’s illegal wave of his hand to allow exemptions to coverage would reduce the number of paying customers, and that the small penalties for not having coverage in the first year or two would be an incentive for people to “self-insure” rather than pay high Obamacare premiums.
The plan all along has been to make the proles despise insurance companies so that they farily beg for a single-payer Canukistan system.
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