That's a bargain. Where I work the annual premium for an 80/20 PPO plan is over 16,000.00
Yep, 16 grand.
talked about this at length with someone yesterday...his health insurance $$$ went through the roof upon renewal...this is another nail in the coffin for the rats this November as employees usually get renewal benefit packages in October and they’ll see how all the BS about obamacare is exactly that...
One major reason that health care costs have risen so dramatically is that too many people have insurance. Old folks look to the government and too many young folks have developed an "entitlement" attitude that is crushing their employers. We are becoming a nation of leaches.
Free people learn to care for themselves.
Foreseen and intended. The idiots in Washington want working people to pay and pay and pay the premiums for the people who vote democrat.
Try being self-employed and paying for it all yourself.
my employer actually paid this bill for 13 months after i was laid off.
going from $900 a week to $300 kind of made the insurance decision for me.
if all these leftists are so smart, how is it so when they will now be paying any health related bills i incur..?
i sure as hell can't pay them.
i’m lucky to pay rent.
I was told by our HR lady, that not only were the premiums going to rise, but whatever the cost of the insurance is (say 10K a year) that was going to be included as income by the feds.
So if this is true, I just got a 10k a year raise without ever seeing the money, but I get to pay more in taxes.
The way I figured it, approximately $4200 a year..
Didnt a new mandate to cover young adults just kick in? And insurance companies are not allowed to charge those families getting that benefit more for it than those without their adult kids on their family policies. Some idiots thought these mandates are free.
We were just informed yesterday that our large companies plan falls under the cadillac plan definition so our out-of-pocket cost will jump 14% to match the added cost imposed by the Government. I heard a few Liberals who voted for Obama grumbling. Hope they like the change they voted for.
“In the recently passed health care legislation, beginning in 2018 there will be a 40 percent tax - the so-called “Cadillac tax” - levied on companies with health care plans that cost more than a certain amount set by the government.
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a tax will be imposed on certain employer plans beginning in 2018. Even before then, however, there will be additional costs for employers in the form of newly required benefits and a phenomenon called “cost shifting.”
Cost shifting occurs when doctors and hospitals face cuts from public programs like Medicare, and they seek to make up their lost revenue from employer plans. Today, that practice adds an estimated 11 percent to the cost of employer plans,
and that “hidden tax” could grow. While there also is funding in the new legislation to help improve the quality of care, it may be many years before those new initiatives can offset the growing costs that employers face.
Employees are paying about $4,000 to buy family insurance in 2010, $482 more than they did last year