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Insurers: Health overhaul to hike some premium rates
Newsday ^ | 3/17/2013 | TOM MURPHY The Associated Press

Posted on 03/21/2013 2:40:14 PM PDT by tobyhill

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1 posted on 03/21/2013 2:40:14 PM PDT by tobyhill
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To: tobyhill

Some?
Everyone that I know who has health insurance has already had increases.


2 posted on 03/21/2013 2:46:52 PM PDT by svcw (Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
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Everyone is and will see continued rate hikes. The Communist are claiming the usual “it’s not as bad as it would have been”.

We really do have some stupid people in America.


3 posted on 03/21/2013 2:50:14 PM PDT by tobyhill
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To: tobyhill
In other news:


4 posted on 03/21/2013 2:52:06 PM PDT by justlurking (tagline removed, as demanded by Admin Moderator)
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To: tobyhill

how much is an Obamacare policy?

please post a price list


5 posted on 03/21/2013 3:04:44 PM PDT by RockyTx
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"they expect premiums -- or the cost for insurance coverage -- to rise from 20 percent to 100 percent"

Another 100 percent?
6 posted on 03/21/2013 3:06:22 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: tobyhill

And they had the nerve to call it the ‘Affordable Care Act’.

Liberals, nuts as they are, will fail to see a connection between a gargantuan across the board increase in health insurance premiums at the same time Obamacare kicks into full swing. I wonder if the Not-At-All-Affordable Care Act covers that mental condition?


7 posted on 03/21/2013 3:15:35 PM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: tobyhill

Some??? My daughter’s employer tripled her premiums. She couldn’t afford it and dropped her coverage. She is 26. Imagine for “old” people like me!

FUBO


8 posted on 03/21/2013 3:18:47 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: tobyhill

and by ‘some’, they mean “all”.


9 posted on 03/21/2013 3:19:44 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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Congressional Report: Obamacare Leads to Skyrocketing Premiums, 200 Percent Possible
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2999252/posts

that free lunch is getting pretty expensive


10 posted on 03/21/2013 3:24:10 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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if they triple my coverage, then I will have no choice but to waive my 80/20 ( I pay 20% ) employer HMO insurance and go to an exchange, which is, I’m sure, what they want. it’s either that or move in to a tiny lousy apartment for the wife and I. the money has to come from somewhere, and I ain’t rich.


11 posted on 03/21/2013 3:30:13 PM PDT by Chuzzlewit
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“if they triple my coverage, then I will have no choice but to waive my 80/20 ( I pay 20% ) employer HMO insurance and go to an exchange”

What makes you think an exchange will be less expensive? It is, after all, a high risk pool... People will not need to sign up until they are sick.


12 posted on 03/21/2013 4:01:21 PM PDT by babygene ( .)
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To: babygene

Got involved with a gal at United Healthcare recently about benefits for someone in a high risk pool which, in essence, is a new type of exchange, who wanted to see one of my doctor clients.

Her words, “Be very careful. There are a whole lot of fingers in this pot and the supply of money available is very limited. When it’s gone, it’s gone and your doctor may end up not getting paid.”

So what we decided to do was to accept their insurance but they would have to pay the fee themselves up front of whatever the contract rate was for their service. Then if we get paid, we will refund the money. If not we won’t. Doc said if they cancel his contract because of this, “so be it”.


13 posted on 03/21/2013 4:22:39 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: tobyhill

No poop Sherlock. That happens when you add freeloaders to any system that you have to pay for. This is all for the democrat voters that think we working people owe them a free ride through life. It’s also for the new democrat voter that are coming here illegally.

Would I prefer the “unwilling to work for a living” people not get medical coverage if I have to pay for it? Yes.


14 posted on 03/21/2013 4:23:30 PM PDT by soycd
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To: tobyhill

The Affordable Care Act(Obamacare) was designed to raise premiums. The left knows this.

The plan is to destroy private healthcare by any means necessary in order to implement nationalized healthcare.

The left are cunning as well as ruthless.


15 posted on 03/21/2013 4:31:07 PM PDT by Le Chien Rouge
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To: tobyhill

Republicans who want to run away from repealing Obamacare have a death wish.


16 posted on 03/21/2013 4:32:17 PM PDT by AU72
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To: SoFloFreeper

Exactly. Newsday is just another liberal newspaper.


17 posted on 03/21/2013 4:46:29 PM PDT by lowbridge (Joe Biden: "Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy.")
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To: tobyhill

But, this is the only way that Nancy Pelosi’s daughter could have the security to pursue her dream of a career as a film maker, or something.


18 posted on 03/21/2013 4:50:08 PM PDT by TonyInOhio (H-O-L-D F-A-S-T)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Mine went up over 20% this year. Between that and the expiration of the payroll tax holiday, I took an effective 4.5% pay cut, and adjusted for inflation—REAL inflation, including food and gas, not the BS they feed us as the “consumer price index”—my pay is roughly where it was in 2007, if that.

Thanks, Zero.

}:-)4


19 posted on 03/21/2013 5:11:32 PM PDT by Moose4 (SHALL. NOT. BE. INFRINGED.)
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To: Le Chien Rouge

Obama pretty much stated that years ago. He mentioned in some group (may have been SEIU) that the complete govt takeover of healthcare would not be instant, but a gradual process. The stuff they put in place will just make it sooner rather than later.


20 posted on 03/21/2013 5:11:34 PM PDT by woweeitsme
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