I wish it were only single digits. Mine was slated to go up 60%!!! I did shop around - other plans were even worse than that. Even going down from a silver to bronze plan, I'm paying $80 more a month for absolutely crappy coverage.
How can the Rats who voted for this monstrosity even show their faces in public?
Heh, heh, 2016 is looking good for 'pubs if the sheeple keep getting this bad news..
The President promised if we like our health insurance, we can keep it.
It turned out to be a lie.
“How can the Rats who voted for this monstrosity even show their faces in public?”
Because their constituents are all radicals or morons.
That's my situation exactly.
The left is delighted, they want it to be as painful as possible so people will demand “free” government-run healthcare
I talked to my business insurance guy and he brought me over to the medical insurance guy’s office. I told him how expensive my plan was getting ($1240/mo this past year) and what could he do. He asked who I had. “Oh - good. Yes, they are more expensive - but they also have the most hospitals, doctors, etc. You can go with a cheaper plan, but odds are your existing doctors won’t be on it, and your choice of hospitals is very limited.”
He said he hates being the bearer of bad news. He had just been at a local welding shop that employs a lot of people, and he left the owner with tears in his eyes, trying to figure out what to do between laying people off, cutting off their medical insurance, etc.
FUBO
What my family has found is that not only is the coverage crappy from the get-go (very high deductible for a plan we can barely afford, even with the subsidy), then when you go in for “preventive care” (supposedly covered), most of it is NOT covered and one gets a whopping big bill that was not expected.
Reading the fine print, it appears that what “covered” really means even for many components of preventive care is “the cost paid by the consumer will contribute toward meeting the deductible”. But the deductible is so high that what it boils down to is that our well over $800 / month premium* does us almost no good, except for a catastrophic illness or injury. In reality, preventive care is not encouraged: Instead (at least in the short to medium term) it is heavily discouraged (from a financial standpoint.)
*I am under no illusion that I do not pay for the entire premium — the subsidy part is merely paid indirectly.
This is nothing less than a vicious conspiracy (crony capitalism on steroids) to suck money out of a group of people with (collectively) a large pool of money (U.S. middle class) but individually almost no way to fight the theft.