Obamacare: 2016 sticker shock

Washington Examiner ^ | June 2, 2015 | Paige Winfield Cunningham

[HarleyLady27]

Health insurers are proposing to raise Obamacare rates more than in the past - some by more than 70 percent - now that they are finally equipped with all the information they need to price those plans.

Plans wanting to raise rates by at least 10 percent next year posted the proposed increase online Monday, as required by the 2010 healthcare law. Insurers are allowed to raise rates each year, but they must publish significant increases ahead of time.

Insurers have sold plans in the law's new insurance marketplaces for two years in a row. But the difference in 2016 is that for the first time, they have a full year of claims data from enrollees that tells them how high or low to set the price tag.

'This is the first time that insurers have access to a full year of claims under the (Affordable Care Act) in order to project premiums,' Kaiser Family Foundation analysts Larry Levitt, Gary Claxton and Cynthia Cox wrote in a blog post Monday.

[HarleyLady27]

I hope whoever gets in the Oval Office does a few things:

One: over ride EVERY E.O. that obuma did...

Two: Have a meeting with every Head of every department, House and Senate and tell them, your either with America or get the heck out...

Three: Talk to the American Voter on what you want to do and why, if WE don’t agree with it, then drop it...it is OUR COUNTRY not the Government’s!!!

[blackdog]

“Oh - we’re sorry, but it is being used to treat a medical issue - not birth prevention, so it isn’t covered.” They wanted $200 a month for it! My wife is living with the symptoms."

We get around that (or my wife does I should say) by getting the hormone patch you change once a week.

There is always a way around what government does. They design it that way on purpose.

[SkyPilot]

Where my free Obama helfcare be at?

[21twelve]

Thanks for the information - I’ll have her look into that.

[kiryandil]

I'm serious, Obamacare is the worst experience of dealing with the government our family has ever dealt with in 26 years. They still won't process my 2014 taxes because of it and they owe me money. It is 100% pure shit on every level.

You have to understand that the federal government is malicious retarded incompetents who are playing a game of "Tag, You're It!", enforced by gunthugs with machine guns.

I'm 4-0 with the IRS incompetents. Last time, I enlisted my local US Representative in the IRS kerfluffle. If your Rep isn't a Democommie, you may have some luck there. The little IRS bitches had to submit paperwork BUT PRONTO to my representative's people. Betcha it ground their totalitarian @zzes. :)

You have to record every tag-back, and it costs you buck$$$. I won't register with their health care exchanges because I was a competent computer geek in a previous life - and I refuse to allow my data into their TOTALLY unsecured data "systems".