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Sticker Shock: Iowa's only ObamaCare insurer seeks 57 percent rate increase
FOX News ^
| August 17, 2017
| By Barnini Chakraborty
Posted on 08/17/2017 2:13:04 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
In one of the biggest 2018 premium hikes sought to date, Iowa’s only ObamaCare insurer is looking for a 57 percent rate increase – that’s 13 percent more than they asked for just two months earlier.
It’s a troubling trend that’s been spreading across the country as jittery insurers stay stuck in a holding pattern waiting on Congress and the Trump administration to decide the fate of the Affordable Care Act.
President Trump has at different times encouraged lawmakers to let ObamaCare implode, pushed his party to repeal and replace the bill, admonished his own party for failing to do so and supported a repeal-only bill.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: failure; obamacare; rinocare; socialism
To: Oldeconomybuyer
It’s... uh,... “working!”
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posted on
08/17/2017 2:15:21 PM PDT
by
fwdude
(Democrats have not been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Anyone let John Kacich know about this?
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posted on
08/17/2017 2:18:21 PM PDT
by
Parmy
To: Parmy
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posted on
08/17/2017 2:21:57 PM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
But LOOK ..OVER THERE
A CONFEDERATE MONUMENT !!
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posted on
08/17/2017 2:23:47 PM PDT
by
A_Former_Democrat
(Search "Vice Mayor Wes Bellamy tweets" and pass those links on to all you know)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
It’s a troubling trend that’s been spreading across the country as jittery insurers stay stuck in a holding pattern waiting on Congress and the Trump administration to decide the fate of the Affordable Care Act. It's Trump's fault!
That will be the media mantra for the next 8 years.
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posted on
08/17/2017 2:27:13 PM PDT
by
Bubba_Leroy
(The Obamanation has ended!)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
It’s going to be blamed on “uncertainty of the future of ‘healthcare’ during the current political climate”
In other words, on Trump.
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posted on
08/17/2017 2:28:16 PM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
waiting on Congress and the Trump administration to decide the fate of the Affordable Care Act Reminder to the writer: Obamacare passed without a single Republican vote and (fortunately) the RINOs did not replace it with Obamacare Lite.
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posted on
08/17/2017 2:37:39 PM PDT
by
libertylover
(In 2016 small-town America got tired of being governed by people who don't know a boy from a girl.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Why not?
Why not 257% increase?
Hell, why not a 1K % increase?
There is no competition so why not?
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posted on
08/17/2017 2:40:04 PM PDT
by
Lorianne
To: Oldeconomybuyer
John McCain cannot go to his Just Reward soon enough to suit me.
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posted on
08/17/2017 2:41:47 PM PDT
by
workerbee
(America finally has an American president again.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Make sure we still call it OBAMA Care.
Give those voters what they voted for when they elected Democrats.
TRUMP 2020 !
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posted on
08/17/2017 2:45:54 PM PDT
by
Newbomb Turk
(Hey Newbomb, where is your bothers ElCamino ?)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I s that in addition to the reduction of $2,500?
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posted on
08/17/2017 3:26:55 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Trump’s fault for not, ummmmm - getting the greatest healthcare, ummmm - repealed, or something.
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posted on
08/17/2017 3:57:42 PM PDT
by
mykroar
(Congratulations President Trump)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Some friends of mine have to buy their own insurance. They were on the Obama care mandate, as that was the only plan they could get.
Now their company is dropping out.
They work for a small employer that doesn’t offer insurance, supplemented by some small business ventures.
It is starting to bite hard.
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posted on
08/18/2017 6:36:00 AM PDT
by
redgolum
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