Posted on 10/29/2014 3:28:20 PM PDT by lowbridge
In its first year, Obamacare hiked health insurance premiums by up to 78 percent, according to a new analysis comparing insurance costs before and after Obamacare.
HealthPocket, a nonpartisan health insurance research company, analyzed government data on individual health insurance premiums in the 2013 market before Obamacare reforms and 2014′s Obamacare exchanges, and the results are in: Average premiums are higher for all ages– far above the norm for annual increases.
Young customers have been hurt the worst by Obamacare– a big potential problem for the Obama administration, which failed to attract enough young and healthy customers during the first round of exchange enrollment. But people just several years away from Medicare have been hit with double-digit hikes as well. The average, non-weighted premiums across three different age groups are higher by over 20 percent for both men and women.
The hardest hit are 23-year-old men, who are being charged 78 percent more this year than they were in 2013; 23-year-old women pay a paltry 45 percent more in 2014 than they did before Obamacare. The picture isn’t much rosier for 30-year-olds, though:
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
No real surprise there.
And deductibles . . . ?
Its OK though, because we were all fooled by the insurance companies into buying the “garbage policies” we once had.
When is a 23 year old male going to file a gender discrimination lawsuit for being taxed OVER 30% MORE simply because he’s male, even though statistically females require more health care than males do????
My deductible went from 0$ to 4,000$
It has wrecked our Blue Cross/Blue Shield, too.
100% coverage is now 70%, and only *if* it’s “in network”.
They tried to talk us into another policy with “100% coverage” that was obscenely more expensive.
Hubby worked like a dog to provide us with good insurance and the illegals who clog the ER for snotty noses get it all, free.
Take an aspirin.
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60% increase from last year, according to a letter I just got from Anthem Blue Cross, $480 up to $740/month for the same coverage-”silver” level plan.
I called Sen. Mark Warner’s office and got a line about supporting Gov. McAuliffe’s plan to increase Medicaid eligibility in VA, which would do nothing to help me and others in the same boat.
I called Sen. Kaine’s office and got a line about Sen. Kaine sponsoring a bill to introduce a “copper” level plan to the choices. Can you imagine what the deductible and out of pocket costs would be on a “copper” level plan?
The death spiral has begun (greedy insurance companies will be blamed) and the Rat running for President in 2016 is going to be touting single payer as the panacea.
Being 'in network' must be a bigger problem for people who live in rural areas. Finding a family doc might not be any more difficult than in the past but when you need some kind of specialist they might not exist within your "designated area."
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