Posted on 12/11/2018 8:35:40 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Six in 10 U.S. adults say they worry about having to pay higher health insurance premiums, according to a Gallup poll.
The poll finds that 61 percent say having their premiums raised is a “major concern,” higher than several other health care-related problems.
Democrats focused heavily on health care on the midterm campaign trail and won back the House majority while saying they would preserve protections for people with pre-existing conditions.
The poll, though, finds that premiums are an even bigger concern for the public than pre-existing conditions.
Forty-two percent of adults said being denied coverage for a pre-existing condition is a major concern, compared to the 61 percent worried about higher premiums. In addition, 46 percent said they are concerned they will not have enough money to pay for health care.
“Many House members-elect have homed in on the issue of being denied coverage because of a pre-existing condition, which worries more than four in 10 Americans,” the Gallup analysis states.
“But concerns are greatest about the possibility of having to pay higher premiums — a scenario that raises major concerns across party lines,” it adds.
Not surprisingly, people making under $30,000 are even more concerned about higher premiums, at 70 percent. But even among those making more than $75,000, 57 percent are concerned with higher premiums.
Obama told insurance companies once they hooked people with low initial rates they would then be free to raise prices incrementally.
Even if ObamaCare started out as 'affordable' it won't be for long.
Costs are going to keep rising as will premiums leading to more calls to control the cost of health care.
Buyers remorse may be kicking in sooner that we thought.
...higher health care premiums...
I don’t care what health insurance costs. I don’t have it. At all.At age 64 and abandoning health insurance on 1/1/2014 (the day obamacare became real) we’ve saved about $50k in premiums, and only spent a few hundred for dental visits.
We’ve also had one miraculous healing.
So, we’re good. They can charge whatever they want.
Socialized health care is coming. It will happen in America and when it does, it’s going to suck to be old.
People are still posting memes on social media talking about really cheap premiums and how Trump is stopping people from signing up for them.
They don’t recognize how mad people get when they find out the cheap premiums don’t exist and they have to pay back the subsidy if they make more money.
RomneyCARE was designed to screw the people
twice over, and ObamaCARE was its copy.
More costs. Less medicine. Fewer docs caring any more.
Longer waits to appointments.
More EW visits by illegals.
The ONLY ones who benefit are in the Congress.
No wonder the stinking lying GOP kept RomneyCARE.
My favorite one is “Medicare For All” which is a complete farce. They mean “Medicaid That Comes Out Of Your Pay Check Like Medicare”. It’s making Medicare sound like Single Payer.
And once again, the bumbling, stumbling GOP has totally blown the narrative that this is ALL THE DEMOCRATS’ FAULT!!!
Fun Fact: The single payer system in Canada
is actually called “Medicare”.
All part of the left’s plan for single payer.
Pass Obamacare, rates go sky high, people are going bankrupt paying the premiums.
Next step is “People can’t afford the rates. We need a single payer system.”
People say that because they are economically ignorant.
It is unridled health care costs that are the primary drivers of health insurance premiums.
The attack and focus on “health insurance” for over three decades has left the health care industry off the hook. And who in the political class do you imagine the health care industry has been supporting? They have been supporting those attacking “health insurance” as the main issue - it isn’t.
What are needed are “insured” plans that are primarily two parts - as large as you want health savings accounts and “major medical”. With the actual consumer, not the insurance company, paying for most common things out of health savings accounts, consumers will be able to start putting some market forces at play against health care costs.
Chasing after “health insurance” premiums is addressing the hole not the donut. The bigger the donut, the bigger the hole. The more health care costs go on and on unchecked, health insurance can only keep rising with them.
Pretty much McCains fault
My girlfriend got Obamacare when it first started at $30 a month.
When she bailed last year it was almost $400mo
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