Posted on 10/03/2010 8:07:34 PM PDT by bolobaby
My parents - self-employed small business owners (innkeepers) - just received their first premium adjustment since the passage of Obamacare.
FIFTY ONE PERCENT.
Yes, that's right, they'll now have to pay about $24,000 a year for health insurance, not including the deductibles. As small business owners, a sudden hit of an extra $8,000/year in expenses in an incredible burden.
Thanks Obama, Pelosi, and Reid. Now things are really hitting home.
“The country’s going to explode. Democrats will go into hiding, afraid for their very lives.”
Of this, I have no doubt.
Obamacare favors younger people and working-age people. Here is an example of what retired folks face. My relative age 90 was forced out of a nursing home when her private funds ran out. Health plan put her in hospice care, in her own home - she lives with relatives, with a visiting nurse and a home health aid. Since she did not die quick enuf, health plan now wants to cut off hospice care - she exhausted hospice benefit. Let Granny Die mentality.
Tell me again what health insurance plan Congress is on.
Obama: Premiums Will Decrease 3000% So You Should Get A Raise When H’care Is Passed
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/obama-ins-premiums-will-decrease-3000
Each year as 2013 gets closer, the insurance companies will have to pass along some new mandated cost thanks to JerkwadCare.
By the time it DOES go into effect, anyone still with insurance at all, will have the dreaded ‘Cadillac plan’ that comes with a whopping surcharge by the IRS
But no, there's no rationing of care or services in obamanation with Reid/Pelosi/obama-care.
Bingo.
I don't know. I think your average libtard is so stupid and gullible they won't really believe it's happening until we lynch a few of them.
The people will go wild shouting down the rich folks with Cadillac plans.
Of course Congress/Senate and Unions have already been exempted.
Representatives and Senators alike receive some of the best health care benefits in the country, much of it paid for with taxpayer dollars. Yet these same members seem unable - or unwilling - to extend similar protections to the rest of America.
As soon as members of Congress are sworn in, they may participate in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP). The program offers an assortment of health plans from which to choose, including fee-for-service, point-of-service, and health maintenance organizations (HMOs). In addition, Congress members can also insure their spouses and their dependents.
Not only does Congress get to choose from a wide range of plans, but there’s no waiting period. Unlike many Americans who must struggle against precondition clauses or are even denied coverage because of those preconditions, Senators and Representatives are covered no matter what - effective immediately.
And here’s the best part. The government pays up to 75 percent of the premium. That government, of course, is funded by taxpayers, the same taxpayers who often cannot afford health care themselves.
And the Congressional perks don’t stop with the FEHBP. According to the article “Health care as good as Congress gets,” by John Barry, a staff writer for the St. Petersburg Times, “Members of Congress have their own pharmacy, right in the Capitol. They also have a team of doctors, technicians and nurses standing by in case something busts in a filibuster. They can get a physical exam, an X-ray or an electrocardiogram, without leaving work.”
Although members pay extra for these services - Representatives pay about $300 per month, and Senators about $600 - taxpayers end up kicking in another $2 million. That’s $2 million not being spent on those who need it.
Despite the services that members of Congress receive at the taxpayer’s expense, they’ve done little on behalf of those who cannot afford or cannot get health care. The Oakland Tribune article “Congress’ wild health care ride” (January 7, 2008) reports that Congress’ attention is instead focused on the financial well being of pharmaceutical and insurance companies.
To illustrate this point, the article states that, according to the Medicare Reform Act of 2004, Medicare is prohibited from negotiating with pharmaceutical companies for lower prices. However, not only is this negotiating power available to governments in other industrialized countries, it’s also similar to the power granted to the FEHBP, which itself is permitted to negotiate premiums and prices.
It’s true that the U.S. Congress is talking up health care reform, but members of the House and Senate - both Republicans and Democrats alike - take millions of dollars in contributions from the health sector, which includes health providers, insurers, and pharmaceutical companies
In the meantime, millions of Americans are receiving inadequate health care, and millions more could lose their health insurance at any time. Those who’ve managed to maintain their insurance have seen their rates go up and their deductibles rise. Many end up medically bankrupt. Yet throughout all this upheaval, one thing has remained steady - the health care coverage afforded members of Congress. If they’ve proven nothing else, they’ve shown taxpayers that they know how to take care of themselves.
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Trust me, Americans will figure out where the pain is coming from long before Obama is gone from office.
Stories are popping up daily in the press that illustrate how Obamacare is negatively impacting medical insurance companies and policy-holders. Even McDonald's Corp. has revealed that the cost of providing medical insurance to their employees is about to skyrocket, and that they'll likely have to drop that benefit. Anyone who reads up on that development can see that Obamacare is the culprit.
Obamacare and the unrestrained explosion of big government will prove to be the sword that the Dems decided to fall on, out of sheer arrogance and Socialist idealism. The bell is tolling for them as we speak.
My mom and dad are still healthy for their ages (78 and 80), but it do wonder about the near-term future of their health care. My family will probably have to face this same issue in the next ten years or so.
Wouldn't you know it - both of them voted for Obama.
My company is getting ready to jack up our premiums (I am bracing for $200-300 a month difference), our deductibles (guessing going from $200 a person to I am not sure how much, and all of our co-pays and % out-of-pockets on procedures- starting in January. We will get the details late this month.
They said after this, we will still be considered a “Cadillac Plan,” so brace for the taxes (or to be dropped, eventually, was the unspoken part of it.)
Never underestimate the stupidity of the American populous.
Remember when they were stealing the 780 Billion porkulous and Congress put on that show about the bankers giving back the 160 mil in bonuses?
I saw folks here calling for the bankers heads while almost a trillion was spirited away my the puppet masters
Until 2014, and then the IRS Gestapo will force those young people to buy in under penalty of law.
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