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Posted: 4/21/2016 11:04:44 PM EDT
Amid rising drug and health care costs and roiling market dynamics, the spokesperson for the nation’s health insurers is predicting substantial increases next year in Obamacare premiums and related costs. Without venturing a specific percentage increase, Marilyn Tavenner, the president and CEO of America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), said in an interview with Morning Consult that the culmination of market shifts and rising health care costs will force stark increases in health insurance rates in the coming year. “I’ve been asked, what are the premiums going to look like?” she said. “I don’t know because it also varies by state, market, even within markets. But I think the overall trend is going to be higher than we saw previous years. That’s my big prediction.” If Tavenner is right, Obamacare will jump dramatically—last year’s premium for the popular silver-level plan surged 11 percent on average. Although Tavenner didn’t mention deductibles, in 2016, some states saw jumps of 76 percent, while the average deductible for a 27-year-old male on a silver plan was 8 percent. View Quote Bend over |
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My health insurance was canceled because of Obamacare. So, no worries about premium rises!
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Anyone who didn't see this coming is either an idiot or completely deluded.
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A simple WARNING letter from a utility company for a past due balance gets you out of the obamacare fine. Skip a month on your water bill, and keep it from tax season. |
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Huh, almost like it was designed to run premiums through the roof. Are we clamoring for single payer yet?
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Using form 8965 is another possible way to avoid paying the penalty. It's worked for me. Probably not for all you ARF millionaires though.
https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f8965.pdf form https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i8965.pdf instructions |
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Affordable Healthcare Act, yay!
With the government, you can expect the complete opposite of the bill name. Patriot Act Affordable Care Act SAFE Act Etc. |
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United Healthcare is pulling out of the ACA markets. Blue Cross Blue Shield most likely also will. There's no profit to be made, only massive losses.
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"We have to raise the rates before we can tell you what the percentage increase will be...."
If anybody thinks ObamaCare was about improving health care, and not a massive information collecting system for the .gov, start reading some sections in the ACA act. Sad that it got passed with nobody actually having time to read the entire thing before the vote. Even a speed reader couldn't have went over all 11,000 pages in the time between the last changes and the vote on it. |
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Our family's rates went from $619/month last year, to $819/month this year, and I have learned that we didn't even see anywhere near what some of my friends have seen ($1600/month for 2).
We just pulled out. That was my wife and kids, with me not even on the plan. |
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But Bill Maher said Obama made the healthcare system better!
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I don't understand????!!!
You mean you can't just make a law that defies all forms of mathematics and still have everything work out perfect? That's racist why won't white people let obamacare just work already it's very simple - a far too small number of people pay moderate insurance premiums so that a huge number of people can get astronomically overpriced healthcare why shouldn't that work? answer: white people are selfish and racist oppressors |
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stop being so negative everyone
that makes obamacare not work and stop being so white, it's triggering |
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And it will be the fault of the next administration. If it's a republican.
If it's a democrat it will be bushes fault. |
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Cloward Piven baby. Burn it all down so we can fundamentally change America.
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Everyone was going to get free insurance and health care! I feel like I may have been lied to.
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Anyone who didn't see this coming is either an idiot or completely deluded. View Quote but if it helps just one person.... Years past, if I had a health issue I would just go to the Dr. and pay my $20.00 co-pay and be done with it. Not that I had to go often, it was probably once or twice a year. These days? I want to go to Dr. to address some hip pain I am having, but will now have to pay $60.00 (at least) out of pocket to do so which is making me hesitant to schedule an appt. and instead adopt a "wait and see" approach to this mysterious hip pain. |
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Bork your credit, pay your health insurance. What to do, whaaaaat to doooooo? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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PSA A simple WARNING letter from a utility company for a past due balance gets you out of the obamacare fine. Skip a month on your water bill, and keep it from tax season. Bork your credit, pay your health insurance. What to do, whaaaaat to doooooo? One past due warning does nothing to your credit. |
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LOL Obamacare cost me my insurance. So now I claim exemptions and give uncle sam the finger.
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Bork your credit, pay your health insurance. What to do, whaaaaat to doooooo? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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PSA A simple WARNING letter from a utility company for a past due balance gets you out of the obamacare fine. Skip a month on your water bill, and keep it from tax season. Bork your credit, pay your health insurance. What to do, whaaaaat to doooooo? Typically a warning letter doesn't "bork your credit". |
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not even slightly surprised. it will go up 50% every year until the wheels fall off.
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Thank god I have a union job....
7 bucks bi weekly for coverage. Good coverage at that! |
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May ALL the rat bastards (and bitches) that voted for this boondoggle die a fiery, painful death.
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PSA A simple WARNING letter from a utility company for a past due balance gets you out of the obamacare fine. Skip a month on your water bill, and keep it from tax season. Bork your credit, pay your health insurance. What to do, whaaaaat to doooooo? Typically a warning letter doesn't "bork your credit". I was about to say...I have never had water utils reported on my credit. If you dont ever pay it to the point it goes to collections, which in some states is 6-8 months, THEN it will show.. |
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PSA A simple WARNING letter from a utility company for a past due balance gets you out of the obamacare fine. Skip a month on your water bill, and keep it from tax season. View Quote You may want to find out which utility actually gives warning letters first. My water utility doesn't give warning letters - they just lock your meter until you pay. Also - warning letters typically don't get turned over immediately to collections or reported to credit bureaus. |
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This shit needs to be shouted from the rooftops in the run up to the election and the every Commie bastard that voted for it needs to be jailed for misleading the public and then beaten for setting it up so that the full fucking doesn't commence until AFTER the election.
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My company made the decision to go "partially self funded" for our healthcare offerings this year. We hold the cash we and our employees pay in for premiums and actually pay the medical bills our self up to a certain amount at which a "catastrophic" policy kicks in.
Its a gamble that we wont have 12 kidney replacements or heart transplants that would exhaust our premiums, but the only way we could still offer insurance at a reasonable price.. around 20 bucks a week for a family plan (employee cost). |
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My health insurance was canceled because of Obamacare. So, no worries about premium rises! I was "saved" from my "inadequate" catastrophic care policy by Obamacare because it didn't cover my nonexistent vagina and other stupid stuff. Now I have no insurance and had to pay the penalty this year. I am trying to find a non exchange policy that has decent coverage and somewhat sane rates but no luck so far. Thanks Obamacare for fixing all this. |
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Quoted: This shit needs to be shouted from the rooftops in the run up to the election and the every Commie bastard that voted for it needs to be jailed for misleading the public and then beaten for setting it up so that the full fucking doesn't commence until AFTER the election. View Quote 2006 my health insurance premium cost 12% of my total income. 2009 it was 19% 2012 it was 23% 2015 Obama tried to bump it to 49% Today it's a 1-1/4 oz 12ga Federal Power-Shok Slug. Thanks Obugna. |
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Time to switch to that high deductible plan, i'm getting all my surgeries take care of this year.
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Some of us are far beyond shouting. 2006 my health insurance premium cost 12% of my total income. 2009 it was 19% 2012 it was 23% 2015 Obama tried to bump it to 49% Today it's a 1-1/4 oz 12ga Federal Power-Shok Slug. Thanks Obugna. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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This shit needs to be shouted from the rooftops in the run up to the election and the every Commie bastard that voted for it needs to be jailed for misleading the public and then beaten for setting it up so that the full fucking doesn't commence until AFTER the election. 2006 my health insurance premium cost 12% of my total income. 2009 it was 19% 2012 it was 23% 2015 Obama tried to bump it to 49% Today it's a 1-1/4 oz 12ga Federal Power-Shok Slug. Thanks Obugna. I'm hip brother. I've already been involved with the exchange. What a shitshow that was. Got lucky though and went to work for a company with great insurance AND a $500 deductible. For now. I'm dead serial about prosecuting those that foisted this on us though. |
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I thought this was supposed to happen prior to the upcoming election, but they knew what it would mean to Hillary, so they worked it out to where it would kick in after she is elected.
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This shit needs to be shouted from the rooftops in the run up to the election and the every Commie bastard that voted for it needs to be jailed for misleading the public and then beaten for setting it up so that the full fucking doesn't commence until AFTER the election. View Quote That was a neat trick they pulled, wasn't it? Make the real pain start in Jan 2017, when we'll either be full socialist, or an R president/congress can be blamed. Karl Marx meets Sun Tzu with a splash of Machiavelli If only R could get it together to think long term like that. |
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