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Significant Premium Hikes Expected Under Obama Health Law
ABC News ^ | April 28, 2016 | By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar

Posted on 04/28/2016 4:33:12 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

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All these "nagging problems" were 100% predicable, and part of the design of RinoCare. Single payer is 3 years away.
1 posted on 04/28/2016 4:33:12 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Who didn’t see THAT coming?


2 posted on 04/28/2016 4:35:08 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
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Congratulations, Citizen, you’re paying for your neighbor’s healthcare and that of his entire family.

Now, don’t you feel all warm and fuzzy.


3 posted on 04/28/2016 4:35:20 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Not for the EXEMPT.

Not for criminal illegals.

Not for Congress.

Not for SCOTUS.

Nof for Moslems.

Not for the White Mosque.

Not for their families.

Not for their staff.

SUCKERS, America. YOU BELIEVED in the GOP
which remains EXEMPT and laughed at you,
as they -— led by Dufus McCain — sent
the IRS after you and covered up Benghazi.


4 posted on 04/28/2016 4:36:51 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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Just had a 42% hike on my private plan for 2016. Another similar hike would put me at $1200/mo for an individual policy that was $280 4 years ago.


5 posted on 04/28/2016 4:42:14 AM PDT by Zack Attack
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re>Just had a 42% hike on my private plan for 2016.

Check deductibles as they go higher and the policy covers less. Mine added $40.00 for an office visit.

6 posted on 04/28/2016 4:44:36 AM PDT by IC Ken
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Insurers say the law's coverage has been a financial drain for many of them...

How about the insured? Can't say we didn't see this coming!

7 posted on 04/28/2016 4:45:37 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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My liberal sister in law, who used to brag about obammy, called the wife crying a month ago because her premiums went up 55%. Now she has to sell her new car or she can’t keep her health insurance. Yes, I laughed to myself.


8 posted on 04/28/2016 4:46:22 AM PDT by shelterguy
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So, looking up to 2020 (four years away)....what do you think you will be paying by that point? And at what point, do you just grin and walk away?


9 posted on 04/28/2016 4:46:30 AM PDT by pepsionice
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For example in Virginia, nine insurers returning to the HealthCare.gov marketplace are seeking average premium increases that range from 9.4 percent to 37.1 percent.

No problem. My yearly raise covers the increase. Oh, no. My bad. I only got a 3.7% raise. In that case a 37% increase is a problem!

10 posted on 04/28/2016 4:47:35 AM PDT by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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Yeah, your medical insurance has gone up. So has mine. But you can’t compare apples and oranges. For example, my 60-year-old wife and I get free birth control and pediatric dental services under ObummerCare. So there’s that.


11 posted on 04/28/2016 4:49:22 AM PDT by Skepolitic
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I just posted this as the first comment on the ABC thread:

This is what Obama said to a union audience back in 2007:

“I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer health care plan. The United States of America–the wealthiest country in the history of the world, spending 14 percent–14 percent of its gross national product on health care and cannot provide basic health insurance to everybody and that’s what Jim is talking about when he says, ‘Everybody in. Nobody out.’ A single payer health care credit–universal healthcare credit. That’s what I’d like to see, but as all of you know, we may not get there immediately. Because first we have to take back the White House and we’ve got to take back the Senate and we’ve got to take back the House.”

As you can see, “Obamacare” is merely a transitional stage to national government healthcare, like the disaster in Britain. Obama has already wrecked private healthcare, now we will see that Obamacare can’t work, and what’s left? National single payer system, where government bureaucrats will decide who gets what procedure, and when. If you thought weaponizing the IRS against Obama’s political enemies was dangerous, wait until people are afraid that their kid won’t get an operation if they oppose the government vocally.

“Welcome to the USSA, comrades. Now shut up, or maybe little Sally doesn’t get that operation, understand?”


12 posted on 04/28/2016 4:50:15 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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A hike is ok. After all we got a $2500 cut in the price of healthcare, just like Zer0 promised. /s


13 posted on 04/28/2016 4:57:41 AM PDT by Vinnie
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There's only one solution. Don't get sick. It's really irritating that people have to pay for something that has become as dangerous as any ailment they have. That would be doctors determining what care will be provided in terms of what insurance will cover.

Correlation isn't causation, I know that. But it is a reason to hypothesize. The painkiller addiction crisis, often leading to heroin addiction, has spun out of control since ObamaCare took effect. Any connection?

14 posted on 04/28/2016 5:02:59 AM PDT by grania
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Wealth redistribution, as intended.


15 posted on 04/28/2016 5:04:26 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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Anyone who is actually surprised ought to be bi@#h slapped!


16 posted on 04/28/2016 5:07:05 AM PDT by SMARTY ("What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self. "M. Stirner)
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“Single payer is 3 years away.”

This system is a disaster, but they won’t be able to push single payer at this point. There’s just no money for it. I have solutions, as do most who actually work in medicine. One approach is to limit the percentage of any medical payment that can go to ‘administrative’ costs and that doesn’t go directly to patient care. The other is to encourage more and more competition. The consolidation of medical systems, with big hospital systems full of administrators going out and buying out private practices and taking over smaller hospitals is doing the exact opposite of this - which is contributing to why this is a disaster.


17 posted on 04/28/2016 5:11:46 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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As rates keep going up, that lets more people claim a hardship under the 8% rule..


18 posted on 04/28/2016 5:11:59 AM PDT by EVO X
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I only got a 3.7% raise.

Well, you have Obama to thank for your raise. Here is Obama saying people will get a raise because employers will save "as much as 3,000%" on healthcare premiums.

Obama Akbar!

19 posted on 04/28/2016 5:16:20 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hey now baby, get into my big black car, I just want to show you what my politics are.)
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To: Diogenesis

When I first heard that Congress had exempted themselves from their own law is when I knew this nation that I grew up in was over,

Not a whimper from the people, they shrugged and went back to their texting and watching godless TV garbage (images that both move and speak giving power to the beast), instead we should have all been organizing protests,

Now we have satanic Islam flooding across the landscape and Mayors of major cities demanding to see the sermons of Pastors to make sure their homosexual approved,

As in the days of Lot,
Perilous times have come,


20 posted on 04/28/2016 5:19:48 AM PDT by captmar-vell
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