Busin. Week confirms: Premiums will rise & you might not keep your insurance as is

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  1. Eminence

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    The Obama Health Scam disasters continue to mount....

    Btw, great comments by Ron. Honest, fair, straightforward. I used to work with both him and Chip Kahn, and suffice it to say....Ron was the industry guy with whom I much preferred to work.
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    Hm.

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    I also enjoyed his comments about how the debate moved from "Health Care Reform" to "Health Insurance Reform."

    This was a similar sentiment expressed by Rose Ann De Moro, executive director of National Nurses United (the nation's largest nurses union) in another article I posted a few days ago....where she said "Now that we've gotten Health Insurance Reform out of the way....can we move on to Health Care Reform?"
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    And you know who I believe? I believe the companies because they aren't going to lie about losing money. It's just going to piss them off.
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    But....I was assured that my costs would go down.

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    Dang, I pay $600 a year for my premiums. With the average cost somehow going down $3000, I was looking forward to the difference given to me via a check signed by Obama. :(
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  11. Chris

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    They will, as a whole, in a few years.
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    Well, you know how you could change things?

    You could vote. Oh that's riiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
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    You heard it here first, folks.



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    Maybe he thinks you're going to be dead in a few years. :shrug:

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    Actually, they will tend to go down, right away if you retain exactly the same insurance coverage. Coverage will, however, tend to be better than it currently is, resulting in average premiums being a bit higher at first. So, for example, the immediately implemented ban on annual and lifetime caps will make insurance more expensive by significantly improving coverage; right now those caps mean that even insured people routinely end up in medical bankruptcy. In fact, it's precisely people who hit those annual limits who really need insurance; if you knew you were never going to hit them you'd be better off just self-insuring through savings and paying out of pocket. In the long run, even the modest cost controls in the current reform would mean lower premiums in the absolute sense, and if reform sticks and isn't repealed additional cost controls are pretty much a certainty.
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    I'm looking at my next projected paycheck online, and I'm not seeing any reduction of health premiums. I've also not received any information from human resources regarding changes to the type of care that may be provided.

    So what's the deal, fuckstick? :bailey:
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    I never said that. I said it was a great car (it was).
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    I've remained the same, but the board has become more conservative and increasingly driven by rhetoric and emotion.
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    I was still correct, the auto enthusiast market did want them. Unfortunately a large segment couldn't buy them.

    I know I would've if I hadn't been laid off.
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    They assured people that prices will not go up, but this is precisely what the Democrats were counting on. Higher premiums and an inescapable mandate to pay them will only lead to more government subsidies and takeovers, and eventually the universal health care that all liberals wet dream about. Hillary was more explicit about this during the primaries, but they all embrace it.
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    Absolutely.

    They want coverage too expensive for the majority to pay for and for the insurance companies to go out of business trying to cover all the pre-exsistings that are coming their way via the mandate.

    They want people sobbing in the streets, sick, broke and dying screaming for Government to save them so they can swoop in with their universal health care and most likely other socialist programs. :jayzus:
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    A kid that's driving a car that's older than he is couldn't afford a brand new luxury sport sedan? Who'd-a saw that comin'? :(

    Pontiac was run by the mentally retarded. I'm glad it's gone and it took GM with it. I give the new GM less than 5 years before it goes under.
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    Well, the fedgov said so! They never lie! Right? :unsure: