Two months after passage of the "Affordable Care Act", we were notified that our premiums would go up 35%. We got a letter from BCBS explaining the increase and what a good thing this was. Now my 26 year old dependent child could stay on my plan. Additionally, there was now no coverage ceiling. Neither of those are things I would have sought on my own dime. I don't agree with FORCING the companies to provide these to everyone! A choice would be fine, but not a mandate!
A year later, May 2011, BCBS notified us that there would be another 33% increase in our monthly premium. That equates to an 80% increase in two years. The employees voted to abandon the BC plan and chose to go with a lesser company with a lesser plan. We still pay about 40% more than we did before Obamacare and we have a less-generous policy.
It drives me nuts when I hear opponents of the health care bill argue that it has caused health insurance premiums to rise "7 to 9%". Could our company possibly be the only one that has experienced such a large increase? (see link) Another thing that drives me nuts - why do they continually allow Dems to call it the "Health Care" Bill? It's really a "health insurance" bill. Dems and the liberal press love to say, "15 million Americans have no health care" - they lie! Maybe 15 million Americans have no HEALTH INSURANCE, but they all have health care. No one in America has to do without care! They also love to drag out some poor guy who lost his job in the down economy, saying along with his job, he also lost his "health care"! Again, NOT! He may have lost his health insurance, but he still has access to health care.
Has anyone else out there experienced a rise in premiums like this?
I don’t have healthcare insurance and I don’t want any.
Every day I get spam mail of insurance companies trying to sell me insurance, State Farm is especially pushy.
For 2013, only High Deductible plans with HSA accounts will even be offered. Deductible + premium is $8200 for family before “coverage” pays a dime.
When they first announce Obamacare, my insurance went up about $136 a month more. I just got another notice yesterday, after the supreme court did their thing, and it is going up another additional $114 starting in Aug. I am retired, but only 62,so I have to pay for what ever type of plan that I can afford on a monthly bases. I do not get medicare or anything. This is getting so expensive.
My husband’s plan he continued with, after he retired from work. I was originally on it as well, but when Obama first passed in what 2009, it raised the price so high for both of us, we could not afford it any longer. So, I opted to get out of it, and look for a plan just for me. We had to keep it for my husband, as he has had cancer, and could not get insurance from anyone else. So, i got a separate plan for me, and just make monthly payments.
I cannot afford to keep making these higher payments.What they want me to pay now, is back like what are original plan was asking for when I opted out, due to it being too costly for both of us on it.