Sticker shock often follows insurance cancellation

AP ^ | 11/2/2013 | KELLI KENNEDY

[Paine in the Neck]

The sticker shock isn't over by a long shot. Wait 'til you're paying for tens of millions of illegal border jumpers.

[rbg81]

hey can buy different policies directly from insurers for 2014 or sign up for plans on state insurance exchanges. While lower-income people could see lower costs because of government subsidies, many in the middle class may get rude awakenings when they access the websites and realize they’ll have to pay significantly more.

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Translation: The producers are now in the minority, so they are subservient to those who vote for a living.

[Alberta's Child]

"We're buying insurance that we will never use and can't possibly ever benefit from. We're basically passing on a benefit to other people who are not otherwise able to buy basic insurance," said Griffin, who is retired from running an information technology company.

This is exactly the kind of person who should be paying the "penalty" to the IRS instead of buying the insurance. It's one thing to see your monthly premiums escalate from $770 to $1,275 for an inferior insurance policy. But when you already know in advance that you'll never use the policy, what kind of moron would pay the $1,275 every month rather than a couple of hundred dollars for the entire year in "penalties"?

[Pontiac]

"We're buying insurance that we will never use and can't possibly ever benefit from. We're basically passing on a benefit to other people who are not otherwise able to buy basic insurance,"

I said something similar on another thread a few days ago.

We (working people) required to buy insurance by law but still have to pay for health services out of pocket or pay a fine and still pay for health care out of pocket.

Soon it will cost you money to work and everyone will sit at home and live of the government. Of course then we will all starve to death, freeze in the dark or both.

Ayn Rand was a modern day prophet.

[headstamp 2]

The war on the middle-class continues. On to amnesty.

[Rome2000]

Keep letting idiots vote.

This is just the tip of the iceberg

[Huskrrrr]

Now you’re underemployed AND paying more for insurance. Let the good times roll. Welcome to the ever shrinking middle class.

[headstamp 2]

“We’re buying insurance that we will never use and can’t possibly ever benefit from. We’re basically passing on a benefit to other people who are not otherwise able to buy basic insurance,”

That was the plan all along. To force working/middle-class people to directly subsidize healthcare for others.

[TomGuy]

The Griffins are among millions of people nationwide who buy individual insurance policies

That is a lie, because Team Obama have been saying for weeks that most people get their coverage from where they work. Thus, their company will pick up the tab for any premium discrepancies.

[/s]

The more Obamacare comes to light, the more people do read it to find out what is in it, the less they like -- and the full Act won't be implemented until 2015.

Obamacare is like opening presents on Christmas morning -- every week a new surprise is revealed. Isn't that fun!?!

You thought you could keep your doctor: Surprise!

You thought you could keep your hospital: Surprise!

You thought you could keep your current healthcare: Surprise!

You thought you would get lower premiums, up to $2,500, per Obama: Surprise!

The Griffins didn't realize that THEY would have to pay for their own Obamacare policy and provide enough money to help pay for others' Obamacare. They get to share their wealth.

[Pontiac]

The cheapest plan they found on their state insurance exchange was a so-called bronze plan charging a $1,275 monthly premium with deductibles totaling $12,700.

You used to pay a few hundred dollars a year for policy with a deductable that high.

[Dilbert San Diego]

To me, this begs the question of how insurance policies are priced in the first place. Why are premiums escalating so much? Is there so much new regulation, new requirements for mental health and maternity and other things, that policies end up costing more? But then, Obama had said that premiums would decline an average of $2500 per family. Where did he get this number? Was there a study? Did somebody do a spreadsheet and come up with that? Was there an error in the formula? Did Obama just make it up?

[Berlin_Freeper]

the federal Unaffordable Sucker Act

[Right Brother]

Really? Is your post serious or are you making a feeble attempt at humor?

[Dilbert San Diego]

I am making a feeble attempt at humor.

Also, pointing out some of the questions that would have been asked if a Republican president had proposed some government program which was so far out of bounds, in terms of costs, impacts, etc. which had been predicted.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Dilbert San Diego:"But then, Obama had said that premiums would decline an average of $2500 per family.
Where did he get this number?
Was there a study? Did somebody do a spreadsheet and come up with that?
Was there an error in the formula? Did Obama just make it up?"

He pulled it out of his butt-erball turkey !
It sounded nice ,it had a normalcy bias about it , and he used poetic license !
And you thought this guy only had charisma ...?
Read the Federal Registry (Official Government Document )where expenses and budgetary concerns were released, but not known, since 2010 .

[erlayman]

They need to have a policy of some kind just not topped with the bunch of ‘essential’ service that will never be used including pediatric care.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Sorry , I didn’t realize it was an attempt at humor.
I find little humor in RICO by government !

[JPG]

The first question to anyone 'shocked' by the whole Obamacare experience is:

Who did you vote for? (if the answer is Skippy, you can begin the laughter)

[justa-hairyape]

It always perplexed me that the US government would push for mandatory health care coverage even after Fukushima. Cancer rates will definitely go up in the US. Now it seems clear what they were doing, increasing the costs of healthcare to handle the added cancer health costs. That seems to be their plan.