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I am 58 with a heart condition. The wife is 57 with diabetes. My BCBS plan costs me $340 a month. Great insurance at a cheap price. It was a bit better before Obamacare, adding them 25 year olds costs money.
I am 58 with a heart condition. The wife is 57 with diabetes. My BCBS plan costs me $340 a month. Great insurance at a cheap price. It was a bit better before Obamacare, adding them 25 year olds costs money.
Compared to plans in my state, this is way lower cost. Are you receiving subsidies (aka tax credits) via the ACA?
I found little difference between metal levels in premiums in my state. Insurance provider was BCBS as well. Here are the numbers by age for a Silver plan (all silver plans were similar):
The system I used allowed me to type in different ages for my ACA plan and got this per person cost by age/yr: 30:$4300, 40:$4800, 50:$6900, 55:$8712, 60:$10492, 64:$11202. Per person, no subsidies (tax credits).
I am 58 with a heart condition. The wife is 57 with diabetes. My BCBS plan costs me $340 a month. Great insurance at a cheap price. It was a bit better before Obamacare, adding them 25 year olds costs money.
That is very affordable. We're the same age and healthy and premiums in our area are 4 times that.
Conservatives are always telling us that the problem with health care is "that there isn't enough competition" and that if we would only let the free market "do its job" than everyone would have affordable medical care.
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True. There is no free market when it comes to health insurance.
Based on some of the comments, it would appear that the main argument against universal health care is that some people don't want others who, in their opinion, are undeserving to get something for free.
The problem, of course, is that the rest of us who may be 'deserving' are paying a small fortune for healthcare that should be a lot cheaper (if other developed countries are anything to go by) because we refuse to change the system so that we can continue to stick it to the 'undeserving'.
This is how I increasingly feel as well. Unless you are lucky enough to work for the government you likely pay a very large monthly premium for insurance that isn't even as good as what you can get for a government health insurance plan. This is what we found out when we compared my employers plan that we used to be on with my wife's state plan after she was newly hired.
If the poor are already not paying there share with or without Obama Care what do we have to risk by going single payer? It can't get any worst for the working middle class and the poor already get their freebies anyway.
I am 58 with a heart condition. The wife is 57 with diabetes. My BCBS plan costs me $340 a month. Great insurance at a cheap price. It was a bit better before Obamacare, adding them 25 year olds costs money.
You're kidding, really?? I would love to know the terms of that insurance; I know the numbers for our immediate circle of friends (in the "Triangle" NC) and no one with those types of stats is paying less than $1500 per month...
"The important aspect of the Iowa case is what it tells us about the importance of spreading risk in the healthcare market, and the limitations of the Republican nostrum of segregating seriously ill patients into high-risk pools. The idea is to keep their costs from driving up everyone else’s premiums.
The case also points directly to the benefits of a single-payer healthcare system."
"The important aspect of the Iowa case is what it tells us about the importance of spreading risk in the healthcare market, and the limitations of the Republican nostrum of segregating seriously ill patients into high-risk pools. The idea is to keep their costs from driving up everyone else’s premiums.
The case also points directly to the benefits of a single-payer healthcare system."
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I want those numbers...
