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For Consumers Whose Health Premiums Will Go Up Under New Law, Sticker Shock Leads To Anger
Wa Po ^ | 11/3/13 | Ariana Eunjung Cha and Lena H. Sun

Posted on 11/04/2013 2:48:48 PM PST by Lmo56

Americans who face higher ­insurance costs under President Obama’s health-care law are angrily complaining about “sticker shock,” threatening to become a new political force opposing the law even as the White House struggles to convince other consumers that they will benefit from it.

The growing backlash involves people whose plans are being discontinued because the policies don’t meet the law’s more-stringent standards. They’re finding that many alternative policies come with higher premiums and deductibles.

After receiving a letter from her insurer that her plan was being discontinued, Deborah Persico, a 58-year-old lawyer in the District, found a comparable plan on the city’s new health insurance exchange. But her monthly premium, now $297, would be $165 higher, and her maximum out-of-pocket costs would double.

That means she could end up paying at least $5,000 more a year than she does now. “That’s just not fair,” said Persico, who represents indigent criminal defendants. “This is ridiculous.”

If the poor, sick and uninsured are the winners under the Affordable Care Act, the losers appear to include some relatively healthy middle-income small-business owners, consultants, lawyers and other self-employed workers who buy their own insurance. Many make too much to qualify for new federal subsidies provided by the law but not enough to absorb the rising costs without hardship. Some are too old to go without insurance because they have children or have minor health issues, but they are too young for Medicare.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government
KEYWORDS: abortion; deathpanels; obama; obamacare; obamacarepremiums; tyranny; zerocare
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To: ConradofMontferrat

Interesting birds they are even model A powered...


41 posted on 11/04/2013 3:59:29 PM PST by taildragger (The E-GOP won't know what hit them, The Party of Reagan is almost here, hang tight folks....)
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To: Chode

I LOVE THAT!


42 posted on 11/04/2013 4:01:49 PM PST by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1!)
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To: nascarnation
“I pay my taxes. I’m assistant chief of the volunteer fire department here in Cedar River and a first responder for Mid-County Rescue,” Prestin said. “You try to be personally accountable and play by the rules, but the more you play by the rules, the more you get beat up on.”

It was supposed to happen that way. Remember?


43 posted on 11/04/2013 4:04:32 PM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: nascarnation

Can they go online with their little tales of woe, ala OWS, so we can make fun of them?


44 posted on 11/04/2013 4:05:33 PM PST by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: workerbee

me too 8^)

lotta good stuff at the Western Rifle Shooters Association... http://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/


45 posted on 11/04/2013 4:17:49 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: MeganC

Neither does Obamacare.

The Fire Departments are looking into it too.


46 posted on 11/04/2013 4:21:02 PM PST by Venturer (Keep Obama and you aint seen nothing yet.)
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To: stubernx98
Move to Belize

I thought about moving to there or Australia even, but then I thought about those who died to keep this country free. Should I disrespect their memories?

47 posted on 11/04/2013 4:22:26 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Governor Sarah Heath Palin for President of the United States in 2016)
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To: LostInBayport

Joe the Plumber

The MSM devoted more resources to investigating his trade license than to Baraq’s dubious birth/citizenship.


48 posted on 11/04/2013 4:23:31 PM PST by nascarnation (Frequently wrong but rarely in doubt....)
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To: nascarnation

Ocare is one big wealth transfer from the largely white middle class to the largely black and brown underclass, with their class allies like some of the unions thrown in. It is Barry’s version of the liquidation of the kulaks.


49 posted on 11/04/2013 4:28:22 PM PST by Argus
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To: nascarnation
“That’s just not fair,” said Persico, who represents indigent criminal defendants.

So if it hurts the criminals, that is a bad thing, but screw the tax paying citizens.

Effing Twilight Zone.
50 posted on 11/04/2013 4:33:39 PM PST by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: servo1969

What is she complaining about? Obama said rates would go down as much as $2,500.00 for the average family. /s


51 posted on 11/04/2013 4:59:03 PM PST by stocksthatgoup
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To: LostInBayport

I’d have to go back and watch video of that encounter, but I wonder what the ratio of eye contact was. My money says Joe the Plumber barely looked away, while Barry, like the lying child he is, looked everywhere BUT at Joe.


52 posted on 11/04/2013 5:16:11 PM PST by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1!)
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To: marron
And if you get sick enough to blow by the exaggerated deductible, you’ve got that death panel thing waiting for you.

As far as I can tell you won't even get that far. For a lot of people their new policy won't provide any coverage for care at the research oriented hospitals that handle the tough cases. So when it comes to needing really sophisticated medical care, you're simply uninsured, even though you are paying higher premiums every month.

53 posted on 11/04/2013 6:25:19 PM PST by freeandfreezing
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To: RWGinger

There will be no single payer system because if there is, there will be no single payer.


54 posted on 11/04/2013 6:29:06 PM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Travon... Felony assault and battery hate crime)
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To: servo1969

Remember the passage of Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act back in 1988?

http://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/09/us/retreat-congress-catastrophic-care-debacle-special-report-new-medicare-law-fell.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

People wanted it and cheered when it was passed. Then came the bill and they screamed till it was repealed.


55 posted on 11/04/2013 6:31:36 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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To: nutmeg

Bookmark


56 posted on 11/04/2013 6:45:11 PM PST by nutmeg (ObamaCare: Yet another disaster brought to you by the democRATic party)
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To: nascarnation

My premium for a healthy family of four went up 42.6% and the deductible went from $3500 to $6K.

We don’t spend $6K per year on medical care. Hell, we don’t spend $3K!

I’m in negotiations right now with doctors to go to a cash basis with them. It may be cheaper to do that, buy a catastrophic coverage policy, and change my withholding so that I have to pay tax at the end of the year and say FU to Obama and his abortion of a “healthcare reform” law!

The Obamacare abortion MUST be repealed!


57 posted on 11/05/2013 10:11:32 AM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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