Thanks Barry! You da man! Now KMA!!!
ROTFLOL
I thought this was the plan, creating a “hugh” and cry for single payer.
All according to plan. Federal government to the rescue. There will be no repeal. Just more taxes and less money for other functions of government. America is dying.
All part of the plan..
The Rats will blame GOP Congressional obstructionism and Republican governors. They will then offer full government, single payer, health care to save the day and 2014 will be the battleground to see if the big lie and destruction of US health care will be a winning election strategy.
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especially the pregnant woman target
That's all that matters.
Is this the old spike or a brand new one? /s
The whole law is a death to private heath care by a thousand small slices. A slow, suffering death
We got notice today from HR to expect 104-116% increase...
In a sane world, this would mean politcal death at mid-terms.
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It is what a majority of voters said they wanted.
My Aetna EPO plan for myself, wife and one child is $16,800 per year. That’s through my employer. Last year it was $11,000 and the year before that it was $8500. And now it is not 100% it is 90/10. I went for the “cheap” PPO; that’s only $8,000 a year and it’s 80/20.
Just gets better and better.
I was always doubtful of the claims which were made that simply covering the formerly un-covered would achieve great savings through getting people to stop making emergency room visits for removal of splinters or treatment of the common cold. The other component of justification was that covering everyone would give great benefits to the system as a whole, since folks with chronic and largely avoidable long terms problems (e.g., diabetes) are much cheaper to treat preventatively (e.g., $2,000/year for $40 years, vs. 150K/year for last 4 years of life.) These arguments are intuitively appealing, but may not hold in application. In fact I doubt they will. There is a vast uninsured population today, which, given free or heavily subsidized health care tomorrow, will consume an enormous amount of it. Which will drive costs through the roof.
No Republicans voted for Obamacare. They need to resist the temptation to make corrections or mid-course fixes on this disaster. Let it crash and burn, and make sure you say “I told you so!” This needs to be a painful object lesson to the low information voters.
>> 100%-400% Obamacare rate explosion
Nice going, ya’ Marxist douche bag.
And the IRS will play a huge roll in all of this.
“Unexpected.” Where have we heard this before?
Premera Blue Cross currently offers individual plans for 21-year-old non-smokers at a monthly cost of $325, with a deductible of $1,800. In the exchange, that same person in King County could purchase a similar Premera plan with a lower deductible at a rate of $276 — a decrease of 15 percent.
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Some could face larger increases: A 60-year-old under a LifeWise plan with a $2,500 deductible would pay $674 a month — an increase of 29 percent compared to a current LifeWise plan with a similar deductible. However, that person would get added prescription drug coverage under the newer, more expensive plan.
Naturally, I am almost 60 and so will get the "up" rate.