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Arizona Obamacare Plan To Jump By 116 Percent When Premiums Go Up Next Year
CBS ^ | 10/25/16

Posted on 10/26/2016 5:31:01 AM PDT by Enlightened1

Arizona will be hit the hardest whenObamacare premiums go up next year.

The Department of Health and Human Services revealed Monday that premiums for a midlevel benchmark plan will increase an average of 25 percent across the 39 states served by the federally run online market, and that about 1 in 5 consumers will have plans only from a single insurer to pick from, after major national carriers such as UnitedHealth Group, Humana and Aetna scaled back their roles.

However, in Arizona, unsubsidized premiums for a hypothetical 27-year-old buying a benchmark “second-lowest cost silver plan” will jump by 116 percent, from $196 to $422, according to the administration report.

(Excerpt) Read more at newyork.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: humor; increase; jump; karma; lol; obamacare; premiums
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1 posted on 10/26/2016 5:31:01 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1

BTTT


2 posted on 10/26/2016 5:31:09 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1

The election is in 2 weeks. I’m sure they know what will happen(sarc).


3 posted on 10/26/2016 5:37:34 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Enlightened1

If John effing Roberts says it’s a tax why do the media keep calling them premiums?

It’s actually extortion but some degree of accuracy would be nice.

The internet has sprinklings of people saying ‘Obamacare saved my son’ etc. No it didn’t and he didn’t. Doctors and nurses and pharma companies did. These are the of fools who respond to emotionalism and who make grievous attribution errors ie the kind who would vote for Hillary despite her black heart.


4 posted on 10/26/2016 5:41:30 AM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends.)
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To: Enlightened1

Okay, I’m stumped.

CBS ran with this story. No matter how I slice and dice it, I don’t see how it can be anything but bad for Hillary.

So why did CBS run with it?


5 posted on 10/26/2016 5:43:47 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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A lady on FB put her Blue Cross letter up to show... her last payment of $700 is going up in January to $1800 (rounded figures). how can families pay that? That’s a house payment!


7 posted on 10/26/2016 5:44:16 AM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: Enlightened1

Hey Arizona... ya want more of that? Do you like having your monetary resources lifted from your pocket for “coverage” you may not necessarily need?

If so.. if you like being ripped off, vote for the witch.


8 posted on 10/26/2016 5:49:33 AM PDT by ScottinVA
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Hey, Donald Trump supposedly groped this woman 14 years ago. Why bother feeding your family or keeping them healthy when that news is out there?


9 posted on 10/26/2016 5:51:48 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (I had a cool idea for a new tagline and I forgot it!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
So why did CBS run with it?

THIS is one primary reason why early voting should be scrapped.

10 posted on 10/26/2016 5:52:15 AM PDT by ScottinVA
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To: Buckeye McFrog

To blunt the impact of the story when people see the unspinnable on Nov 1.


11 posted on 10/26/2016 5:54:08 AM PDT by MountainWalker
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Anyone who is Christian and still in Obamacare you need to get out fast. Check out a Christian healthcare co-op.

Approved alternative to Obamacare. The one I’m in is amazing. Been around 30 years. No monthly increases in the 5 years I’ve been in, choose your own doctor. Deductable in the hundreds, not thousands.


12 posted on 10/26/2016 5:58:27 AM PDT by skyman
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Most people will just choose to pay the fine...or maybe not pay the fine as it appears in most cases taxpayers can claim a “hardship exemption” and avoid paying even that.


13 posted on 10/26/2016 6:09:39 AM PDT by apillar
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To: Enlightened1

116% next year! What was it the years before and what are the future increases to be? Keep in mind that McCain and the rest of congress immunized themselves from obamacare. We the taxpayers pay for their healthcare.


14 posted on 10/26/2016 6:26:03 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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Mark my words, President Hillary will come for those Christian health plans, my pretty

And your little dog, too


15 posted on 10/26/2016 6:26:30 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: relictele

“If John effing Roberts says it’s a tax why do the media keep calling them premiums?”

You are kidding, right?

Premiums for insurance are going up.

If you do NOT have insurance (or a Christian health plan exemption) then you pay a tax - $695 per person or 2.5% of your income whichever is larger.


16 posted on 10/26/2016 6:42:46 AM PDT by BBB333 (Q: Which is grammatically correct? Joe Biden IS or Joe Biden ARE an idiot?)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Because they know Hillary supporters won’t read it or care. A few will when their bill goes up next year. Also of note the email hacks have shown Hillary wants it to crash and republicans to give her a single payer rubber stamp.


17 posted on 10/26/2016 6:52:05 AM PDT by enduserindy (Republican's have sold the path, not lost it.)
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To: ScottinVA

One of these days a candidate is going to drop dead fourteen days before election day, and we’re all going to learn a very hard lesson about early voting.


18 posted on 10/26/2016 6:52:30 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: silverleaf

Oh yes, anything with Christian in the name is going to be a primary target for the Wicked Witch of Westchester.


19 posted on 10/26/2016 6:53:20 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: BBB333

I’m afraid you miss the point and the gallows humor.

When something is mandatory it doesn’t really matter if it’s a premium, a contribution, alms for the poor or any other euphemism.

It’s no longer payment for a service. It is coercion ergo it is a tax ergo it is confiscation at the point of a sword. To draw distinctions between forms of compulsory behavior is to accept the premise. At that point you are merely choosing your form of execution.


20 posted on 10/26/2016 6:55:27 AM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends.)
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