My healthcare premiums have gone from $300 a month to $800 a month. My company says it's because of Obamacare

Repeal Obamacare now wrote:

I asked my hr company about the jump. Cigna told them it was because of the ACA, aka Obamacare.

The fact is Obamacare has been founded on lies... if you like your plan you can keep your plan... lie.

Healthcare plans will drop in price... lie.

Nancy pelosi saying you have to pass the bill to see what's in the bill... just dumb

I hope trump gets elected and repeals this debacle

Who do you think picks up the bill when all of those uninsured people end up in the hospital?

Also, we must pay down the debt so I'm voting for Hillary.

"I'd keep borrowing knowing that if the economy tanks I could make a deal. I love debt. I'm the king of debt. I like to play with it."

Repeal Obamacare now wrote:

I asked my hr company about the jump. Cigna told them it was because of the ACA, aka Obamacare.

The fact is Obamacare has been founded on lies... if you like your plan you can keep your plan... lie.

Healthcare plans will drop in price... lie.

Nancy pelosi saying you have to pass the bill to see what's in the bill... just dumb

I hope trump gets elected and repeals this debacle

Trump, Trump, Trump!!!!!

You do realize your crooked insurance company just used ACA as an excuse to gouge you and your employer, don't you?

I have a bridge for sale? P

Lol wtf wrote:

Repeal Obamacare now wrote:

I asked my hr company about the jump. Cigna told them it was because of the ACA, aka Obamacare.

The fact is Obamacare has been founded on lies... if you like your plan you can keep your plan... lie.

Healthcare plans will drop in price... lie.

Nancy pelosi saying you have to pass the bill to see what's in the bill... just dumb

I hope trump gets elected and repeals this debacle

Who do you think picks up the bill when all of those uninsured people end up in the hospital?

Also, we must pay down the debt so I'm voting for Hillary.

"I'd keep borrowing knowing that if the economy tanks I could make a deal. I love debt. I'm the king of debt. I like to play with it."

We don't really need to pay anything down.

Exactly. Although the premiums are tax free to both the employer and the employee. Even though it is employee compensation. That "tax preference" as they call it costs the public about $250 billion/year. But yeah, ACA is above all a corporate welfare program. Obama compromised every step of the way to give the health insurance companies what they wanted.These increases are not actually new news. It was warned when the ACA first passed that insurance companies were pretty much free to do premium hikes as high as they wanted as long as they could provide some rationalization for it. And without any public option consumers have nowhere else to go.

Highway star..... wrote:

You do realize your crooked insurance company just used ACA as an excuse to gouge you and your employer, don't you?

My insurance went from $100 a month to well over $1500 (employer paid) from 2000 to 2008.

The insurance companies are pulling in massive profits. My daughter went to a hospital for a seizer. They put us in a room for 45 min. Never saw a doctor, only the nurse. They took her temperature and vitals and printed out some paperwork. That visit cost $3400. For what? If I would have known I would have sat in the car outside the emergency room and observed her myself whil surfing web MD.

Mine only went up to $734.00 a month. My house payment is $695.00. I'm 28 and have a son. I got to find another field to get into. My chosen field will not help much with Obama's IRS.

I work for the largest employer in the state - the state government. My premiums went up 30%. No salary increases for several years. The fat cats in Washington that passed these laws are now raking in $$ as lobbyists and board members. I'm tired of it.

Highway star..... wrote:

You do realize your crooked insurance company just used ACA as an excuse to gouge you and your employer, don't you?

This. MORE money is being dumped into insurance companies by people who don't even use insurance, and that makes policies MORE expensive? Yeah, right. Insurance companies are gouging the F out of everyone and blaming it on the ACA. I will say that people now have no choice because insurance is a requirement by law, but this is outrageous and needs to change ASAP. Cutting off the nutsacks of some CEOs would be a good place to start.

I'm not saying my experience is like everyones, but prior to Obama Care, my company (six professional employees) paid $660 a month for insurance and we almost went out of business (carriers favor large entities and we were just too small to be profitable). Now, we kick in a couple hundred a month toward insurance (including mine) and premiums have run between 270 and 330. It saved my small company.

Let's not forget that before the ACA, insurance companies constantly pulled the pre-existing condition card and refused to cover services. They're making record profits now with millions more young healthy people paying in.

It likely has nothing at all to do with the ACA. I personally think health should not be something companies get to profit off of. I don't want some insurance doofus trying to figure out how to profit off whether I live or die someday.

Lol wtf wrote:

Also, we must pay down the debt so I'm voting for Hillary.

"I'd keep borrowing knowing that if the economy tanks I could make a deal. I love debt. I'm the king of debt. I like to play with it."

Except that Trump has specifically stated how he is going to reduce government spending and reduce the debt. The quote you provided is not in conflict with that, nor does it really have to do with the national debt in the way we are talking about.

You are either being dishonest or you are ignorant of this subject. Which is it?

Mr millennial wrote:

Let's not forget that before the ACA, insurance companies constantly pulled the pre-existing condition card and refused to cover services. They're making record profits now with millions more young healthy people paying in.

It likely has nothing at all to do with the ACA. I personally think health should not be something companies get to profit off of. I don't want some insurance doofus trying to figure out how to profit off whether I live or die someday.

Expatriate and come back when you take Ill .

Take Economics 101 too .

"It was warned when the ACA first passed that insurance companies were pretty much free to do premium hikes as high as they wanted as long as they could provide some rationalization for it."

I just got a check from my insurance company because they broke the 85/15 part of the law. (see below) Even though I'm sure the insurance companies will figure ways around that part and the other 20,00 pages of the law soon, it's not like Obama wasn't trying. All big laws require adjustment once the unintended consequences kick in.

"Under the so-called "85/15 Rule," a health care insurer that spends less than 85 percent of the health care premium dollars it collects to provide medical care (on doctors and hospital bills, as well as on programs designed to improve health care quality, such as patient safety), must rebate the percentage difference between what it actually spent and 85 percent or apply the difference to the employer’s health care insurance premiums due after that date."

$1400 to $2850 and deductible from $3000 to $6000 per individual. Soon I will be eligible for the "subsidies" of Obamacare.

Do it this way wrote:

My insurance went from $100 a month to well over $1500 (employer paid) from 2000 to 2008.

The insurance companies are pulling in massive profits. My daughter went to a hospital for a seizer. They put us in a room for 45 min. Never saw a doctor, only the nurse. They took her temperature and vitals and printed out some paperwork. That visit cost $3400. For what? If I would have known I would have sat in the car outside the emergency room and observed her myself whil surfing web MD.

I call BS on all of this. No insurance was available for 100/mo in 2000.

And I doubt the ER story too though I suppose the could have billed that. Hopefully nobody *paid* that.

You sir, are a racist!

Obamacare has done the seemingly impossible:

It has made health insurance more expensive, it has reduced choice, it has reduced quality of care, it has increased bureaucracy, and insurance companies are losing money. No one benefits!