Where Obamacare premiums will soar

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Get ready to shell out more money for individual health insurance under Obamacare ... in some states, that is.

While many residents in New York and California may see sizable decreases in their premiums, Americans in many places could face significant increases if they buy insurance through state-based exchanges next year.

That's because these people live in states where insurers were allowed to sell bare-bones plans and exclude the sick, which has kept costs down. Under Obamacare, insurers must offer a package of essential benefits -- including maternity, mental health and medications -- and must cover all who apply. But more comprehensive coverage may lead to more expensive insurance plans.

Under Obamacare, all Americans must have insurance coverage starting in 2014 or face penalties of $95 or 1% of family income, whichever is greater. Enrollment in the exchanges begins October 1, with coverage kicking in in January. Plans will come in four tiers, ranging from bronze to platinum.

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Where Obamacare premiums will soar - Aug. 6, 2013
 
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My daughter is a practicing, licensed physician. Her group told her. "Your fee allowances will be cut by at least 25% and the costs to those on this policy will see 20-35% fee increases. Note the Congress and their staffs are exempt from this second class level of Health Care.
 
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Because they are the ones who answered when asked and reported the decline. According to Wapo we are still awaiting news of the rates for the other states. Should be VERY interesting when they tell ....
 
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Florida has stripped insurance commissioner of power to set health plan rates.

Florida lawmakers have left the state vulnerable to unreasonably high insurance premiums in an effort to undermine Obamacare, say the state’s U.S. House Democrats.

Gov. Rick Scott (R) and the Legislature cynically stripped Florida of its ability to review rates for the law’s rollout, U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch writes in a letter signed by all 10 of the state’s Democratic representatives.


Legislators faced a unique challenge during their 60-day session in 2013. Unlike many states that had laid groundwork to implement the Affordable Care Act since it became law in 2010, Florida had repeatedly refused — first challenging the constitutionality of the law, then waiting to see if a new president would offer a reprieve.

But with the law upheld by the Supreme Court and President Barack Obama back in office, the state was stuck. It had refused federal money to help with the transition. Now it was also running out of time.

Here’s the thing: The federal government, even under the Affordable Care Act, can’t do what Insurance Commissioner McCarty can do.

Florida grants its insurance commissioner a range of powers. McCarty can negotiate lower rates with companies. He can refuse rates that the state determines to be too high.

The federal government can do neither of those things.

In a bulleted list, the office noted all of the ways the Affordable Care Act might be driving up costs.

It didn’t mention McCarty had no power to negotiate or refuse because of the new law.


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Wait until we all realize we have been lied too by those who craftily exempted themselves and their families fro what could become another swindle initiated by our US government.
 
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Locutus said:
Get ready to shell out more money for individual health insurance under Obamacare ... in some states, that is.

While many residents in New York and California may see sizable decreases in their premiums, Americans in many places could face significant increases if they buy insurance through state-based exchanges next year.



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You're quoting CNN? Have you ever watched CNN ? I don't think so or you would ignore anything that comes from them...,,,,,,,,



Things got heated Daniel Webster (R-FL) during a town hall session in White Haven, Florida on Thursday. His constituents called him out over his multiple votes to repeal the Affordable Care Act and his misleading claims that the law’s consumer protections are being dismantled by the Obama administration.

Attendees asked Webster if he had any plans to replace consumer protections included in Obamacare, such as guaranteed insurance coverage for Americans with pre-existing medical conditions and free preventative health screenings for seniors:


QUESTIONER: What happens to us when Obamacare is repealed? What happens to people with pre-existing conditions that can’t get health care?


The congressman defended his repeal votes by saying the law would drive up Americans’ health care costs by requiring insurers to cover people with pre-existing conditions. He then claimed that President Barack Obama himself thinks his signature law is unworkable. As evidence, Webster implied that the law’s protections — such as its cap on consumers’ annual out-of-pocket medical costs — were being dismantled by the Obama administration. That prompted an outcry from the audience, as people booed and countered Webster’s claims.


The Obama administration did, in fact, delay the health law’s cap on Americans’ out-of-pocket costs through their co-payments and deductibles. But as the audience correctly pointed out, it is a temporary one-year delay that only applies to certain employer-based insurance plans. The cap still applies for health policies sold through Obamacare’s statewide marketplaces beginning in October.

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GOP Congressman Gets Fact Checked By His Own Constituents On Obamacare: 'Stop Lying!' | ThinkProgress





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Some Republicans are only too happy to see poor Americans die. They all know that HCR is affordable just as it is in Canada and elsewhere. But human life is of little value to them. Instead, corporate profits are their only concern not realizing that saved lives and improved health actually increases nationwide productivity.
 
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Here is the problem with the nay nayers of Obummercare.

They aren't offering an alternative............




Murphy was in remission. Insurance wasn’t a problem in his subsequent political jobs — he worked on John McCain’s election campaign in 2008 and Karen Handel’s Georgia gubernatorial run in 2010 — but when he quit politics in 2010 and entered real estate, he realized just how difficult obtaining insurance with a pre-existing condition could be.

In an interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Murphy said he thought after 10 years since his cancer diagnosis, the insurance companies might cut him some slack — instead, they found something else to charge him for.

“I have sleep apnea. They treated sleep apnea as a pre-existing condition. I’m going right now with no insurance,” he told the AJC.

That’s why Murphy had this to say to his Republican friends who oppose Obamacare: “When you say you’re against it, you’re saying that you don’t want people like me to have health insurance.”

Murphy says Republicans’ insensitivity towards the health care debate has made it so that he can’t in good conscience call himself a Republican anymore — he now identifies as an independent. He doesn’t think Obamacare is perfect, but he thinks it’s a start, and he says he’s tired of Republicans “not even participating in the process” of improving America’s health care system.
 
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Insurance rates dropping in Minnesota!


Thanks OBAMA, Health Insurance Rates Will DROP With ObamaCare



Thanks OBAMA, Health Insurance Rates Will DROP With ObamaCare (Thanks Obama)
Premiums in the Health Insurance Marketplace are likely to be about 20 percent lower than anticipated in 2014, according to a report published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

(HealthDay)--Premiums in the Health Insurance Marketplace are likely to be about 20 percent lower than anticipated in 2014, according to a report published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Noting that health insurers have to publicly justify premium rate increases of 10 percent or more, and that they have to spend at least 80 cents of every premium dollar on health care or improvements to care, the costs of premiums for 2014 are likely to be lower than expected for individual and small group plans.

According to the report, in the 11 states with information available for the individual market, the proposed premiums for 2014 were 18 percent lower than the HHS' estimate, on average.

Proposed premiums were an average of 18 percent lower in the six states with information available in the small group market, compared with the premium a small employer would pay for similar coverage without the Affordable Care Act.

These estimates are based on the lowest cost silver plan in the individual and small group markets, and may be even lower when health plans are offered in the Marketplace.

"Today's report shows that the Affordable Care Act is working to increase transparency and competition among health insurance plans and drive premiums down," Kathleen Sebelius, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary, said in a statement. "The reforms in the health care law ensure consumers will have access to better coverage at a lower cost in 2014." ----------No comment from local Repukeblicans in tonight's news. Gee, I wonder why.
 
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Hypocrite Texas Gov. Rick Perry, the governor who says publicly he won’t take any Obamacare dollars, is now begging for these dollars discreetly........................





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This should really not be a surprise. Gov. Perry has a habit of speaking out against federal government handouts in public even as he begs for government handouts behind the scene. When the fertilizer plant exploded in West, Texas, a private company that was privy to virtually no state regulations, he vehemently complained when his requests for government handouts were initially denied.​




http://egbertowillies.com/2013/06/15/texas-governor-rick-perry-now-begging-for-government-handouts-video/



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the move comes as a surprise coming from a governor who has insisted he won’t implement the Obamacare reforms, and who slammed Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius for touting the law during a trip to the Lone Star State earlier this month.

“With due respect, the secretary and our president are missing the point: It’s not that Americans don’t understand Obamacare, it’s that we understand it all too well,” Perry said at the time. “In Texas, we’ve been fighting Obamacare from the beginning, refusing to expand a broken Medicaid system and declining to set up a state health insurance exchange.”
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http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/rick-perry-obamacare-95727.html#ixzz2ccKT9wUZ




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The Affordable Care Act will be a marked improvement to the current state of the health insurance market in the United States. In fact in the states that have been proactive in adopting all aspects of Obamacare, it is proving very successful. Instead of running around the country maligning the new law, Perry should stay in Texas and fix its many problems that are undermining the Texas working middle class even as the Texas wealthy do well.​



http://egbertowillies.com/2013/07/19/good-news-on-obamacare-yet-media-concentrate-on-gop-sabotage/


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