Saying that someone is hit with a higher premium and a higher deductible doesn’t really convey how bad the double whammy is, when they just state the premium change. I figure that you’ve got to add another 30 to 50% to count for the fact that short of a disaster, you won’t hit the higher deductible, so in most years it acts like an added cost.
How do these folks know what the cost is if the website isn’t working?
What they also have NO CLUE about (yet) is that healthcare is also going to be sh!t in this country in no time. The unintended consequences of government intervention will kill the innovative spirit, stifling future medical advancement. Bright young students who may have become good doctors will choose alternate career paths, and many good doctors we have today will retire early or exit the field for other options. Obamacare is a disease in itself.
“Saying that someone is hit with a higher premium and a higher deductible doesn’t really convey how bad the double whammy is, when they just state the premium change. I figure that you’ve got to add another 30 to 50% to count for the fact that short of a disaster, you won’t hit the higher deductible, so in most years it acts like an added cost.”
Exactly, failing a major medical problem, with the new “improved” FUBOCare plans, you may well end up doing nothing but paying premiums and getting absolutely no benefits. With higher deductibles, and co-pays, and having to pay for “benefits” that are of no benefit to you, you become simply a cash cow for the insurance company and it’s formerly uninsurable customers.
Wait til she realizes she’s going to be subsidizing poor, aging Romney voters - whoopsie
Also, care is worse - networks are smaller - it’s not just higher prices and lies.
True, most people will have only a form of catastrophic coverage but they will not pay the lower rates, they will pay higher, far higher rates than they used to pay for good coverage. It is designed to collapse the existing system into chaos, it has no other purpose. Providing actual health care has absolutely nothing to do with it.
Most people will in effect pay very high premiums for NO COVERAGE because they will not meet the deductible.