Posted on 10/25/2016 7:39:36 AM PDT by Olog-hai
When the Affordable Care Act open enrollment period begins next week, customers will see some changes, including fewer choices and higher prices.
In Pennsylvania, the number of insurers in the marketplace has gone from 13 to eight. In Philadelphia, just two insurers are left and premiums are expected to rise 53 percent.
Aviva Aron-Dine of Health and Human Services says the size of the hike reflects artificially low rates early on. Pennsylvania had among the lowest rates in the nation. …
(Excerpt) Read more at philadelphia.cbslocal.com ...
It’s all good for me. I cancelled all health insurance on Jan 1, 2014. I’ve saved roughly $45,000 after tax dollars since then. It would have cost me more than my house and car payments and my utility bill.
No thanks. I’m self insured.
Crashing by design.
I find it hard to believe that 90% of those enrolled in Obamacare won’t vote for Trump to repeal and replace.
The “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010” neither protects patients, nor is it any longer affordable by any stretch of the imagination. It was a revenue redistribution scheme, in which the more wealthy (by comparative standards) were to subsidize the less well-to-do, the improvident ones, and everybody was to have “equal access”.
The “equal access” turns out to be “equal denial” of being able to claim any of the benefits supposedly included in the policy, because of impossibly high co-pays, which amount to virtually no insurance at all, or by outright denial of service altogether.
Grubber an early architect of ObamaCare designed a system to force citizens to buy expensive insurance - (benefiting large insurance companies) while giving control of a seventh of the economy over to liberal elite democrats. It was a scam to herd the people for the benefit of liberal elites...
ELITES HELPING ELITES GET MORE'... more money.. more power. It was NEVER about 'health' care.
No one... not ONE citizens was clamoring to be forced to buy sub-par insurance at inflated prices. NOT ONE.
Grubber an early architect of ObamaCare designed a system to force citizens to buy expensive insurance - (benefiting large insurance companies) while giving control of a seventh of the economy over to liberal elite democrats. It was a scam to herd the people for the benefit of liberal elites...
ELITES HELPING ELITES GET MORE'... more money.. more power. It was NEVER about 'health' care.
No one... not ONE citizens was clamoring to be forced to buy sub-par insurance at inflated prices. NOT ONE PERSON.
Its not affordable care; unless you are a total welfare leech. I know someone who uses it for everything but I am pretty sure she does not report all her earnings.
90% of those enrolled in Obamacare are subsidized. They’ll vote to keep the dollars flowing.
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