Doing Better: Making Improvements to HealthCare.gov

Re: Doing Better: Making Improvements to HealthCare.gov by powertower on Sunday October 20, 2013 @06:43PM (#6581878)

Raising rates 100% across the board for healthy males below 40 in all but 3 states is not FUD. It's a documented fact based on statistical analysis (and even liberal-biased channels are beginning to report on it).

You probably live in one of those 3 US states, or you perhaps fall into some sweet spot or other category such as being chronically ill, having pre-existing conditions, having abnormally expensive or bad existing insurance, low income, etc - categories that benefit from Obamacare.

But the young, healthy, and the middle class mostly do not.

http://kff.org/interactive/subsidy-calculator

Let me give you an example -

A person that never needed health insurance before, lives in NC, 30-40 years old, made 35k. You're going to fork out $3,000k/year for whatever that Silver level is.

But if you get the pre-Obamacare plan.... Only $100/month.

Thats a 3X increase.

Here are some more examples -

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/kevinglass/2013/10/17/the-horro...

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Re: Doing Better: Making Improvements to HealthCare.gov by KatieHartman on Sunday October 20, 2013 @07:13PM (#6581986)

That may only hold true if you're looking at the cheapest available options. I skimmed over the options available through my state's exchange (Covered California) and ehealthinsurance.com; for a 25-year-old making $40k/year, Covered CA's options range from $252 to $305, and ehealthinsurance's range from $100 to $384. The $305 option looks pretty attractive compared to most of the more expensive ehealthinsurance plans (although that $384 plan is, admittedly, hard to top).

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