Posted on 12/23/2013 4:53:50 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
"...Increasingly, experts in health insurance are becoming concerned that many of these first-time buyers will be in for a shock when they get medical care next year and discover they're on the hook for most of the initial cost....
...Hospitals are worried that those who rack up uncovered medical bills next year won't be able to pay them, perpetuating one of the problems the new health care system is supposed to solve.....
..."The real big surprise was how much out-of-pocket would be required for our family," said David Winebrenner, 46, a financial adviser in Lebanon, Ky., whose deductible topped $12,000 for a family of six for a silver plan he was considering. The monthly premium: $1,400.....
...Fearing the sticker shock, Loyola University Health System in Chicago is offering payment plans to spread the out-of-pocket costs.
Some who had private insurance policies that were canceled may find that keeping the same deductibles may mean higher premiums.
In California, Diane Agnone complained in an online post on her state's health marketplace. "How is this affordable? I am a healthy 62-year-old single woman and these new premiums will cost me over $200 more per month than my existing plan.".........
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
There will be MILLIONS of people who will get onto Medicaid because of this plan.
Once that happens, just try to get them off.
Shut up Diane. You voted for this clown for President... twice. Look on the bright side; you get free birth control!
Melanin as impeachment insurance and criticism shield,
and Joe Biden as life insurance....
The left sure set this guy up right.
the effete elite media (aka NYC media aka hedonism media) can and will hide the truth.
They will simply say, FREE STUFF, and the zombie voters will vote for obama again. (remember zombie voters)
Bingo, we have a winner.
The permanently expanded Medicaid rolls make this a win for Democrats, regardless of what happens to the rest of the law.
Personally, I feel it's time we make the piper pay up.
Love Steny Hoyer’s pocketbook. Or is carrying Pelosi’s?
I have some suggestions where she can stick that great big gavel ...
Look at it this way: It would be cheap at half the price.
>”Instead of paying $1,000 per month, people will only have to pay $250 per week! /sarc”<
Hey, that’s less than $35 a Day, what a Bargain.
exactly
you may as well have no insurance at all
except it is now a mandate
If the prices were going to be lower, like promised, it would not have needed a mandate would it?
This is why it is really a bailout of the insurance companies...not healthcare are they try to push this plan.
That’s where the pushing of the Estate Recovery will come in to play. Just wait and see what happens when the major head of household dies and the government then wants the house, car, and all the assets basically putting the rest of the family on the street.
Which when it was hospitals doing this stuff...well there were some laws about it. And ...here’s the best part...0bamacare was supposed to eliminate this kind of stuff too.
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