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guohua
gariac
reply to post by guohua
Hint: the past is the past. It is different from the future or the present. We will try this again.
In the PAST, were insurance rates rising or falling.?
Hint: the answer is one of the two words: [rising, falling]
Is English even your Native Language? You can read English can't you?
It's not mine and I understand my answers of 2007 through 2009 is pas-tense.
If you'd like me to translate this to Mandarin Chinese for you or Vietnamese I can.
I just have to believe you're so very young or a Obama Supporter who can't see the Truth.
You didn't answer my question, but then you can't with out telling untruths like Obama, That's Known as LIES!
Some advice,,, don't buy the Obama Swampland like you bought into ACA.
Now, I'm done with you, I've proved you to be misleading, get a hold of your supervisor there in Obamas basement and tell him or her that you need some new talking points for Obamacare because people are just to Smart in the Real World.edit on 20-11-2013 by guohua because: (no reason given)
elouina
Considering the huge expense of the new Obamacare plans, this just may happen. Just like millions of Americans are choosing to opt out, the employers may decide to also by paying a fine. You see they also have to pay an Obamacare fee for each employee on top of the increased insurance costs.
Health insurance companies across the country are seeking and winning double-digit increases in premiums for some customers, even though one of the biggest objectives of the Obama administration’s health care law was to stem the rapid rise in insurance costs for consumers.
Health Insurers Threaten To Increase Premiums, Even As Profits Soar,
Some of the nation’s largest health insurance companies are warning investors that they’ll raise insurance premiums by as much as 116 percent next year, as the coverage expansion provisions in the Affordable Care Act go into effect and millions of uninsured Americans begin purchasing coverage.
The threats of premium increases come as the industry is experiencing record profits and are part of a well-coordinated publicity campaign to alarm Americans about the cost of coverage, while downplaying mechanisms in the law that will cushion them from rate shock. The effort comes as insurers seek more favorable regulatory changes that would, in part, allow companies to charge older people more for coverage.
Open enrollment for 2014 is about to begin at thousands of companies, and many employers are blaming Obamacare—at least in part—for cost increases they are passing on to their workers.
Employees' costs are expected to rise 5 to 7 percent next year, according to early estimates. Those annual increases have been a fixture for years. But in some 2014 open enrollment documents reviewed by CNBC, companies are specifically citing the law as a factor in next year's pricing.
marg6043
Like you say it doesn't add and it makes no sense, unless you see it for what it is, obviously some are fine and happy with having a big sector of the tax payer class screwed to make a small percentage happy.
Over 47 million nonelderly Americans were uninsured in 2012. Decreasing the number of uninsured is a key goal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which will provide Medicaid or subsidized coverage to qualifying individuals with incomes up to 400% of poverty beginning in 2014. This brief answers some basic questions about the uninsured, including why people are uninsured, trends in the uninsured, who the uninsured are, access and financial implications of not having coverage, and the likely impact of the ACA on Medicaid and the uninsured.
macman
reply to post by gariac
So a slow and snail paced increase. Or.............a meth fueled rocket ship set to hyperspeed.
Yeah, great defense there.
President Barack Obama’s job approval rating has plunged to the lowest of his presidency. 37%
now approve of the job he is doing as president, down from 46% in October -- a nine point drop
in just a month. Mr. Obama’s disapproval rating is 57% -- the highest level for this president in
CBS News Polls.
A rocky beginning to the opening of the new health insurance exchanges has also taken its toll
on how Americans perceive the Affordable Care Act. Now, approval of the law has dropped to
31% - the lowest number yet recorded in CBS News Polls, and a drop of 12 points since last
month. 61% disapprove (a high for this poll), including 46% who say they disapprove strongly.
Republicans are nearly unanimous in their disapproval of the law, and now more than two-thirds
of independents agree. Almost six in ten Democrats continue to support the law, but their
support has dropped 16 points from last month – from 74% in October to 58% today. Support
has dropped 11 points among independents and five points among Republicans.
by the way, the California exchange is working just fine, so is Kentucky's, so is Washington's, so is Connecticut's, so is Minnesota's...
abecedarian
marg6043
Like you say it doesn't add and it makes no sense, unless you see it for what it is, obviously some are fine and happy with having a big sector of the tax payer class screwed to make a small percentage happy.
That's exactly what it is.
Obama, as I've posted before, has received nearly twice as much from the health-care industry, as donations to his campaigns, than the next closest did.
That, in and of itself is suspect, and in my opinion should be scrutinized under RICO and similar laws.
20 million in one year, donated, by healthcare related industries ought to be raising red flags somewhere.
jimmyx
gee, good thing you republicans don't blame insurance companies, because they have nothing to do with this, right?...
by the way, the California exchange is working just fine, so is Kentucky's, so is Washington's, so is Connecticut's, so is Minnesota's...I wonder what could be the reason?...let me see...oh, they all have democratic governors
here's a couple of examples:
www.spokesman.com...
coveredcanews.blogspot.com...