It already started in the insurance companies this last Summer. Our deductible was raised to $3,000 (max per family - $1,000 per individual) and our premiums were raised to cover the costs of a secondary insurance plan to cover the deductibles. We thought it was his old employer who was having trouble, but his new job has the same health insurer and the same changes were made to the employees’ plans at his new employer. Hence, it was NOT the employers who made the change — it was the insurance company itself. I have no clue how this new legislation will effect the policy now...
Nobody seems to know exactly what the 2500page behemoth has in it, but we do know that all these unfunded mandates (esp. no pre-existing conditions, etc.) are all but guaranteed to break private insurers.
That’s the whole strategy (Cloward-Piven, et al); to collapse the private health insurance market, necessitating government takeover.