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Uh huh. Cuz that's what businesses do - throw massive hissy fits and raise their rates, "just 'cuz."
How is a 2,200% increase in the cost of a colonoscopy "better coverage?"
Better yet, how is that a "good thing?"
Wait so...the OP doesn't even HAVE an "Obamacare" (incorrect nomenclature in the first place) plan and he's whining about his insurance company raising his rates for an elective procedure for his wife? Anybody else find that ironic in an unfunny way?
Well let's assume obamacare mandates "better coverage." Is that a fair statement?Charging more for something that was already covered isn't an example of better coverage. Covering a needed procedure or medication that wasn't covered before, on the other hand, would be. The ACA does mandate that insurance plans cover necessary medical care that many substandard plans did not cover before, so in many cases it does mandate better coverage.
-- A2SG, rate increases like that are not mandated by the ACA, so why blame the law for them....?
Have you tried the healthcare insurance exchanges to see if you can get a better plan? I'm willing to bet you haven't even tried for a quote.
healthcare.gov has the info.
Anyway if you can't find a better plan you can always not be so cheap and get your wife the tests she apparently needs.
Well let's assume obamacare mandates "better coverage." Is that a fair statement?
If it is, why in the world would you wonder why insurance companies are increasing their rates? Do you really see no relation between "better coverage" and an increase in rates to pay for that "better coverage?" Or do you have a different definition of the word "better" than mine?
Sure, there may be no explicit rate increases mandated in obamacare - but then asserting that is just dodging the issue, isn't it? Besides, no one ever accused obamacare of mandating rate increases explicitly.
The accusation is, and always has been what obamacare requires insurance companies to cover that they didn't cover before and how that would drive costs up.
Now I don't know about you, but if I were a restauranteur serving hamburgers and the government mandated I made T-Bone steaks available to my customers, guess what? I'm going to increase my rates - whether the government explicitly told me to increase them or not.
You must not be paying much attention to the news or other threads in this forum on the topic. Yes, private health care costs have gone up dramatically in response to the new mandates of Obamacare impacting those plans. We lost our "cadillac" plan at work because our company would have paid a 40% excise tax that is part of the Affordable Care Act. It's part of Obamacare's Goldilocks feature - your health plan can't be too bad, or too good, it has to be just what the Democrats said we should have.
Millions have lost their health care entirely, and 7 million people PER YEAR could be losing employer funded healthcare for many years for this same reason. Gee, what a deal. Idiots.
And we'll fire them for it. Which brings us back to the topic of why Democrats are running from the decisively unpopular Obamacare in an election year. Who would have guessed?
You must not be paying much attention to the news or other threads in this forum on the topic. Yes, private health care costs have gone up dramatically in response to the new mandates of Obamacare impacting those plans. We lost our "cadillac" plan at work because our company would have paid a 40% excise tax that is part of the Affordable Care Act. It's part of Obamacare's Goldilocks feature - your health plan can't be too bad, or too good, it has to be just what the Democrats said we should have.
Millions have lost their health care entirely, and 7 million people PER YEAR could be losing employer funded healthcare for many years for this same reason. Gee, what a deal. Idiots.
And we'll fire them for it. Which brings us back to the topic of why Democrats are running from the decisively unpopular Obamacare in an election year. Who would have guessed?
If when I turn 24 in 1.5 years my father cannot claim me on his taxes ( unless I was a dependent adult (meaning mentally unable to live on my own or bedridden or something like that) If that is the case then I have NO right to benefit from his insurance. Either allow them to be claimed on their taxes longer. ( Remember, that means the government gets less money because of deductions) or drop them from the insurance. It is not that hard. Remember, I am 22.5 that means that if they did that within TWO years I would be booted off his insurance, yet I still would vote for that law as quickly as I would vote to repeal the death penalty, and if you know me and have read my posts on the subject that is pretty darn quick.Why do they need to drop that?
Hey, you can repeat that nonsense as often as you like, it still doesn't make it true - nor will it ever.Interesting reaction to the news that American lives are being saved thanks to ACA.
Actually it is saving lives.Hey, you can repeat that nonsense as often as you like, it still doesn't make it true - nor will it ever.
Obamacare is not "saving lives." Period. Debunked and trash receptacle lid replaced. If anything, it's making millions of lives utterly miserable (something which, for whatever reason simply refuse to admit).
Cheerleading is fine - if there's something to cheer about.
But a bunch of wishfulsmilies do not the plethora of real experiences of real live people negate.
It is not saving any life. That bill will not save anybody no piece of law will. They had healthcare before they may choose to seek it or not. The only difference is now it SUPPOSEDLY cheaper, but they still have that choice to seek it or not.Actually it is saving lives.
Actually it is saving lives.
Edwin may not want to believe ACA is saving lives but the facts are there with plenty of evidence to prove it is doing so every day (I am one such example and have stated so previously).
It is not saving any life. That bill will not save anybody no piece of law will. They had healthcare before they may choose to seek it or not. The only difference is now it SUPPOSEDLY cheaper, but they still have that choice to seek it or not.
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