Tuesday, September 24, 2013

At least they won't feel alone

Earlier today, we took a look at the Mangione family of Louisville, and how the premium for the catastrophic-care policy they bought on their own some time back is going to triple next year.

They have company.  Lots of it.  A typical family of four will spend $7450 more on health care under FHer-care between 2014 and 2022 than it would without it.

10 comments:

  1. Would you perhaps agree to an olive branch proffered by your detested FHers that we amend the bill to give it one year and then have a special election in all the states where the popular vote, not EC will rule? Just dreamin' man, Imagine....

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  2. No. You fight to kill at the earliest possible opportunity. No olive branches to Freedom-Haters.

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  3. Well, they are not offering any such deal. Mark Levin put that in during his tirade last evening, as if he would compromise. I am waiting until the sky falls, not just scrambling for cover because your ilk cries that it is falling. What a pitiful goal line stand by certain 'Pubs, but it is precedent for our ilk to resist your legislation when we decide we want to.

    on average, people will have more than 50 different health plans to choose from if they live in states where the federal government is running the exchanges, HHS says in a report issued Wednesday.

    HHS has analyzed the plans that have been approved to go on offer starting Tuesday and finds that in most states, there’s plenty of choice with reasonable prices. That gives the administration ammunition against critics who have been warning that health insurance will cost more in the exchanges than it does now.

    “In many cases, premiums will cost significantly less than what was originally projected,” Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told reporters on a conference call. The report finds that 95 percent of Americans live in states where the premiums for individually purchased health insurance will be less than what had originally been expected.

    Read more at http://www.nbcnews.com/health/11-month-obamacare-super-cheap-some-feds-find-8C11250211

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  4. Well, there's regime propaganda and then there are the facts I link to in the last few posts about FHer-care, including this one.

    Kathleen Sibelius is the enemy. Why would I believe one syllable coming out of her Marxist mouth?

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  5. Exactly, but why would I believe one syllable coming out of whatever the lean and hungry Cruz' mouth? We know damn well he is showboating and really running for president already. Fine, go for it. I think I know a dick when I see one and this guy has been one from the getgo. I am one of the currently uninsured.

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  6. So, I will let you know how my experience goes with the exchanges, what I will be paying for a premium and how it compares with what has been "offered" in the past for a risky old fart like me who has only been to the dr. once in 10 years, during which he has, admittedly luckily, saved $70 to 100K by not paying for the coverage my employer dropped back in '03. Of course you guys will continue to wail on onto the grave, your grave, not ours...

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  7. If you find a good deal, it means it's subsidized, which means your fellow taxpayer is shoring up the difference between what you'll be paying and the policy's true market worth.

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  8. As I said, I'll let you know. Do you know anyone who is on Medicare?

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  9. Just ran some preliminary numbers and of course will not know for sure until after the Exchanges open, but I will be paying less than half of what I would have had to pay to be covered under my spouse's former employer's coverage ($400/,p/ v/ $1000.00/mo) NO SUBSIDIES. I'm sorry I can't trust your side to give it to me straight either. You would trash any governmental health care reform just as you have been trashing it for nearly a century now.

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  10. $800.00 to $1000.00 a mo premium is not true market worth. It is based on the odds that the frigging ins co is going to have to fork out. The casino is the enemy to us.

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