Posted on 10/23/2014 3:11:47 AM PDT by tobyhill
North Carolina's largest health insurer said on Wednesday that 2015 rates will rise by more than 13 percent on average for buyers of individual Affordable Care Act policies.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina discussed the expected rate increases in a teleconference several weeks ahead of the Nov. 15 kickoff for the enrollment period for coverage starting in January.
Blue Cross said rates would rise an average of 13.5 percent for 315,000 customers who enrolled this year in individual plans that comply with President Barack Obama's health insurance law. It cautioned that the actual increase for each person will be affected by factors including age, location and plan level.
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No surprise here. Go figure your monthly, then the yearly deductible and ask yourself where the breaking point will occur? If not in January of 2015, then 2016 or 2017? What was done in 2010....simply is pushing us toward bigger long term issues, at a quicker pace.
“EVERY....WORD......OF.......IT.”
Our company trigon bcbs policy doubled on 3 jumps two years time. A little help here... Woo hoo, doh!
My rates are going up about 5% after having gone down in 2014.
Thirteen percent???
Pikers!
My healthcare premium has doubled in two years thanks to the Idiot-in-Chief.
“My rates are going up about 5% after having gone down in 2014.”
up 5 percent and went down in 2014. Is your plan exactly the same with no changes?
My plan at 264.oo per month )just for me) if I want to stay on a plan like that goes to 644.00 per month........needless to say I am no “liking my plan or keeping it”
Not that Tillis would ever do it, but a series of THANK YOU SENATOR HAGAN ads would be very effective right now. Basically show middle class people holding up their “insurance bill”, describing their increase, and then thanking Senator Hagan for supporting that crap.
Same insurance carrier, same level of benefits. Nothing changed. Of course I get my insurance through the company I work for, and when I hear candidates talk about how they want to decouple health insurance from employers I cringe. If they do that then my costs are going to go up roughly 400 percent and I'm not crazy about that.
Mine went up 25.00 a month, so that puts me at 385 and change a month, plus a 30 dollar co-pay for each visit and a 7500.00 deductible. I am on no meds and I am healthy, at least for now. I do have a great drug plan if I can keep it in the future. But this is my plan that we pay for oursleves.
2012 +33%
2013 +33%
(includes Flex reduction from 5000 to 2500, caused the lost 2500 to be taxable at top marginal rate)
2014 no change
2015 +22%
Health insurance rates going up is unheard of.
Calling it the “Affordable Care Act” was supposed to take the stigma of its flaws away from calling it “obamacare”
oh, the irony. It burns.
If the company you work for is big, it maybe self insured and doesn't have to comply with a big portion of ACA. If you work for a smaller company, it may not have to comply until January 2016.
My wife’s Florida Blue policy, without any changes, is going up 22%! Already high and going higher.
My MVP more than doubles. And they said Obamacare is the cause
Hey! BCBS left out the $2,500 that Clown Prince nobola said he’d “save” us on our policies. Maybe it was just an administrative oversight.
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