Posted on 09/10/2009 7:31:37 PM PDT by Lorianne
If President Barack Obama gets what he wants in his health care plan — covering all Americans and barring insurers from denying coverage — some analysts say individuals could wind up paying higher premiums.
The Obama plan would impose new costs on insurance companies, which would probably then raise the prices customers pay for coverage. Employers also would likely pass on some of their higher costs to employees.
An individual in a typical plan might have to pay up to $780 more for the same coverage in the first year of Obama's plan, estimates Erik Gordon, a health care analyst and assistant professor at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business.
Gordon said employees now typically pay 20 to 40 percent of the premium for a typical health care package costing about $13,000 a year for a family of four, with employers picking up the rest.
Obama's plan would raise insurers' costs 10 to 15 percent if reform doesn't provide other savings, Gordon estimated. He thinks employers would stick employees with perhaps 40 percent of the higher premium, or $520 to $780 more — though they might also receive better coverage because of mandatory preventive care and screenings.
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Ya think?
I mean ... forcing insurance companies to cover EVERYTHING, including pre-existing conditions - what could go wrong?
DOH ! More Obama Lies... sure you can keep your current health care....
snicker... if you can afford to........
Obama and the Rats = pure evil
Obama has a “plan”?
Insured people will get to pay three times. For ourselves, for the illegals and for the freeloaders.
We will pay more and have unionized “doctors” and “nurses” who are currently ACORN employees.
Everyone that pays will pay more this is a fight between those that pay the bills and those that don’t.
But Pelousy told us Health Care Reform Has 'Cap On Costs, No Cap On Benefits'...pause...'Cap On Costs, No Cap On Benefits'
Note: I did not add the redundant 2nd statement... pelousy was just doing a great imitation of a broken record
You cannot cap costs.
You can cap price, but it is impossible to cap costs ... in any system.
There is no doubt. If you are forced to take obese people and pre existing sick then the pools looses millions and you prorate to healthy people. This is why we must have a place for them to go that does not screw us for their cost. LET THEM GO TO MEDICARE!!! and print the damned money but leave me and my family alone!!!
They fully intent to go to single Payer, Obama said it last night, to his PROGRESSIVE buddies he called it a means to an end, they will remove our Freedom to choose. government will control everything there will be no other resource. They know this. It is that deception that is getting people fired up.
Now what do we do when the inevitable happens and we have a govt run single payer system....
Hmmm we shove it right down the Liberals throats by have a Republican President use Health Care to solve all of our social ills i.e.,
Government will provide you Birth Control if you get pregnant you have failed to comply there will be no abortion allowed by govt oh and with a simple flick of the pen a future President could make it illegal for Doctors to practice outside of the government controlled system.
Next STD’s you get one your screwed Govt will not treat you because you were non-compliant with the BC that was given to you.
What you live a risky HOMO lifestyle sorry we can’t be treating any AIDS disease right now because of your risky behavior.
So when the LIBERALS get what they want.... I say STICK IT TO EM.
SOME analysts say?
SOME?!?
Who are the analysts out there who don't think premiums would rise under the Kenyan's plan?!?
Wow, I can’t believe AP is reporting this!!!
Sure you can cap costs ... All you have to do is reintroduce slavery, which is the inevitable consequence when one has a “right” to someone else’s labor.
Big Brother is out to get us.
I’m not sure, but I think the idea is to force you into getting your benefits through the govt.
If I understand correctly Medicare Advantage gives you, at minimum, the benefits of Medicare Parts A and B. So instead of getting these through the better Advantage program, I assume you will be stuck getting them through the govt.
So much for Obama’s claim that if you like what you have you can keep it.
True, but I wasn’t speaking of ‘costs’ being only monetary.
So, in your scenario, there is a big cost ... to someone.
not
Look for the IRS to fine you if you don't provide proof of your annual physical.
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