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For some reason Tea Partiers have been going on since day one wanting to know how many people on the ACA have paid for their plans. Today Wellpoint which owns BCBS reports 90% have paid. Another bad piece of news for the Tea Party is that rates wont go up double digits next year according to Wellpoint. My advice for Tea Partiers keep your Medicare, Tricare, and VA appointments and stop worrying about a government take over of health care. Heres the link.
I'm not fond of radishes. You know what that means? I don't think about them, have them in my house, read about them or go to "news" sites that aggregate articles about them. I never know what this celebrity says until people like you are all hushed hush whispering like 12 year olds pointing at the kid with the wrong pair of shoes in school.
And yet here you are still surfing the same 5 websites, looking for and finding exactly what you want, like a baby playing peekaboo in a mirror over and over and over and over and over and over and...
They didn't say that there wouldn't be double digit increases. They said they would be less likely which doesn't rule out increases.
Something not affordable can't become affordable with price increases and lets be truthful about why they are happy.
Profits are reported to be $700 million dollars. 3/4 a billion dollars. Are we saying that a program that forces people to enrich insurance companies at this level is going to be a great thing?
For some reason Tea Partiers have been going on since day one wanting to know how many people on the ACA have paid for their plans. Today Wellpoint which owns BCBS reports 90% have paid. Another bad piece of news for the Tea Party is that rates wont go up double digits next year according to Wellpoint. My advice for Tea Partiers keep your Medicare, Tricare, and VA appointments and stop worrying about a government take over of health care. Heres the link.
Committee Learns Who’s Paid for Obamacare: As of April 15, Only 67 Percent of Enrollees in Federal Marketplace Had Paid First Month’s Premium
April 30, 2014
Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee to Hold Hearing NEXT WEEK with Insurance Companies to Discuss Detailed Enrollment Data
WASHINGTON, DC – Data provided to the committee by every insurance provider in the health care law’s Federally Facilitated Marketplace (FFM) shows that, as of April 15, 2014, only 67 percent of individuals and families that had selected a health plan in the federally facilitated marketplace had paid their first month’s premium and therefore completed the enrollment process. Nationwide, only 25 percent of paid enrollees are ages 18 to 34. The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations today invited the leaders of some of the nation’s largest insurance providers and their trade groups to testify at a hearing, “PPACA Enrollment and the Insurance Industry,” on Wednesday, May 7, 2014, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2123 Rayburn House Office Building.
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Now we can all celebrate the fact fewer people have health insurance now than before ObamaCare started!
Edit note, Katspaw beat me with this glorious news by four minutes!
Well I am sorry to hear that. If you are like me my premiums were getting jacked up every year anyway for the same old coverage.
Not 30%, no. The typical annual increase was around 9%.
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That maternity coverage is a slippery eel. We used to have it as a rider, although we paid it anyway for employees who wanted it. Then, wouldn't you know it, the wife of one of our guys who didn't have it got pregnant.
The purpose of insurance is to buy a hedge against risk. Your guy bet wrong and that sucks for him but they made their decision of their own free will; like it is supposed to work.
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By the way, when our first came along, we were still kids ourselves and had no insurance at all. So I made a deal with the doctor to pay $50 down and $25 a month until we paid off his full $200 fee. (Which he had graciously cut in half for us -- I later paid him the rest after we got on our feet).
My how times have changed. It costs you more than that for a stubbed toe these days.
There is a reason healthcare and education shatter inflation with their price rises; in both cases a third party often pays so no one has an incentive to control cost. Usually that third party is the government.
There is a reason healthcare and education shatter inflation with their price rises; in both cases a third party often pays so no one has an incentive to control cost. Usually that third party is the government.
Exactly. I have no idea why liberals and anyone who insists government's involvement in anything is a good idea can't see that.
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