Surprise! Even the Bronze plans may cost a lot more than you expect

Hotair ^ | 12/27/2013 | Ed Morrissey

[rdcbn]

If you get seriously sick, the Bronze Plan may cost you everything

[Paulie]

Why do we have to wait until this kicks in or that kicks in or employeer plans get cancelled? This is all known in advance - why is this still the ‘law of the land’?

[Jim Robinson]

I guess birth control is one of the required freebies. And abortion another?

[Black Agnes]

All part of the big plan to get the middle class to agitate for single payer.

[Gay State Conservative]

I think Rush...and others...are right.The primary aim of OsamaObamaCare is to drive private health insurers out of business....by way of bankrupting them and/or making the tens of thousands of pages of regulations and rulings so difficult that they just throw up their hands.Once that's accomplished the complete takeover of our healthcare system is a piece of cake.

[Gay State Conservative]

And abortion another?

And don't forget "sex change" operations.

[Iron Munro]

Only a card carrying idiot would believe that Obama could drop health care insurance costs by $2,500 a person while:

- Increasing the quality of health insurance and health care

- Paying for a massive, new government bureaucracy to be injected into the system between people and their health care providers

- Providing free health care insurance and health care for 30 million people

- Generating billions of dollars in new taxes for his wealth redistribution schemes

- Save the federal government billions of dollars by reducing the overall costs of health care

[forgotten man]

It makes no economic sense to pay for these high deductible b.s. plans. A rational healthy person will a) not buy or pay for the insurance b) pay the fine of 1% of adjusted gross income c) wait until they are hospitalized before they buy insurance, and d) stop paying for the insurance after they get better.

[GeronL]

exactly

destroy the system and blame the free market, some how.

[Chgogal]

Under the law, Congress granted insurers leeway in how they design their plans, so long as bronze plans cover at least 60 percent of the costs of a typical policyholder, silver plans cover 70 percent, gold plans cover 80 percent and platinum plans cover 90 percent – with consumers on the hook for the remainder. Gold and platinum plans weren’t included in the eHealthinsurance-Kaiser Health News analysis because they generally cover more services with less cost-sharing by consumers.

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/12/26/212833/low-premiums-may-mean-high-out.html#storylink=cpy

MSM (including FOX) still has not communicated to the public that they are on the hook for 40% of medical costs under the Bronze Plan AFTER deductibles. Thank You Supreme Court, Congress and Obama for royally effing us. It's time to leave these shores before you're totally bankrupt.

[DaxtonBrown]

The good news is it won’t drain personal bank accounts because people will just refuse to sign up. The bad news is the only people with healthcare will be those on the dole.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

It's unfair that some people are able to save and acquire assets when other people cannot.

The purpose of Obamacare is to vacuum up the savings and assets of those people who have more than they need.

The ultimate goal is to have everybody living hand to mouth in eternal gratitude to their government overlords.

[Chgogal]

Even when you sign up after the fact you are still royally screwed. See post 11 below at link.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3105847/posts?page=11#11

[Tzimisce]

No one who was paying attention is surprised.

[sheana]

Why would insurance companies go bankrupt? They will be receiving premiums every month for insurance policies that don’t pay out a dime unless someone is very ill.

[Chgogal]

Not many people are paying attention. If they were Obama would not have been reelected and the Democrats would have been blamed for the shut down.

[Chgogal]

Plus if there if the insurance companies aren't collecting enough Obama and the Democratic Congress promised to pay the difference with tax payer money.