Posted on 10/31/2013 2:49:57 PM PDT by NaturalBornConservative
good post
New York has the better deal of the three states.
I wonder if Henry Waxman would consider one of these policies abuse?
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), who serves as Ranking Member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, called the private sale of cheap health individual insurance plans “the worst abuses of the insurance industry” and said that Obamacare would halt those abuses.-http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/10/30/Waxman-Selling-Individual-Insurance-is-Abuse
My Mom went into the hospital for 3 weeks in March. We have Medicare for her and Humana for the supplemental. We paid way more than 6300 dollars for her 3 week stay overall. I say that 6 grand on a 50 dollar a month fee is not bad. Most people pay way more. I agree that people should have more ability to pick the insurance they want which is why we hate Obamacare, but the price on those 3 states is pretty inexpensive.
What Liars these Democrats be.
You can get a plan for $50 dollars a month, and it isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.
Say you finally had a bad year and your deductible reached $6,000 dollars in December. You get sick in January and your deductible starts all over.
The only way this policy would be any good at all is if you hade a catastrophic illness in January, and it paid the rest of the year—but only half.
Obamacare————The biggest scam to ever hit this country.
If they can't...will the taxpayer end up footing the bill?
I can get California Bronze and reduce the cost of my visit from $50 to $60, exactly like my weekly chocolate ration was increased from 30 grams to 20 grams!
At only $700 a month it could be a deal if it was a quarterly rate.
A lady MBA healthcare consultant I know tells me the typical pay rate on non-insured hospital costs is 3 to 7 percent.
The balance is written off.
Actually that’s what INSURANCE should be.
INSURANCE not PREPAID HEALTHCARE.
PREPAID HEALTHCARE funded by government or the employer insulates the user from costs and leads to over consumption and spiraling costs.
INSURANCE takes care of unexpected high healthcare costs.
But the consumer pays for a significant portion of normal expenses.
It is not a good deal for the young and healthy who only need catastrophic insurance. Comparing them to you mother on Medicare with supplemental insurance is not valid.
In Pennsylvania a Bronze plan for a 55 year old man and a 54 year old wife costs a little under $900 per month, has a $10,000 deductible and 20% copay.
it used to be under 50. I work for a large company where we had so called gold plated blue cross and we had a 10 dollar deduction per week.
those were the days. (not that long ago, actually)
A lot of providers though used to accept whatever the insurance paid. I went into the hospital back in the early 90’s....only 1 day but over $3K....quite a few providers between the surgeon, the anesthesiologist, and there were one or two besides that.
But, I sent them the documentation from the insurance and they didn’t ask for more. A lot of people don’t know that.
Now, with Obamacare jerking the doctors around, and I fully expect them to do that, I don’t expect them to be quite so generous.
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