2016 Obamacare premiums to skyrocket 20%
Finding out what’s in it: Health insurance premiums in 2016 will rise more than 20%, three times more than predicted by Obama officials.
The discrepancy is because the government excluded price data for three of the four Obamacare health insurance plans when the officials issued their recent forecast claiming enrollees would face only a 7.5 percent average rate increase in 2016. When data for all four plans are included, premium costs will actually rise on average 20.3 percent next year.
In other words, Obama administration officials purposely manipulated the numbers to hide the actual rate increase. Then, not surprisingly, “The mainstream media was quick to embrace the 7.5 percent number, claiming it reflected the real-world experience of most Obamacare customers,” when it truth the number was a lie.
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Finding out what’s in it: Health insurance premiums in 2016 will rise more than 20%, three times more than predicted by Obama officials.
The discrepancy is because the government excluded price data for three of the four Obamacare health insurance plans when the officials issued their recent forecast claiming enrollees would face only a 7.5 percent average rate increase in 2016. When data for all four plans are included, premium costs will actually rise on average 20.3 percent next year.
In other words, Obama administration officials purposely manipulated the numbers to hide the actual rate increase. Then, not surprisingly, “The mainstream media was quick to embrace the 7.5 percent number, claiming it reflected the real-world experience of most Obamacare customers,” when it truth the number was a lie.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Hah!
What a crock of [stuff]. Even at 7.5%, the rate of increase is worse than it was before Obamacare (BO), and that rate of increase was seen as too expensive for many people — a basic reason for implementing this expensive, hideous, abominable behemoth. Even the sugar coated 7.5% version of the annual rate of increase leaves a bad taste.
Does the media compare even the sugar coated rate with the BO rate? Of course not. That would emphasize the failure of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in its title purpose: to make healthcare affordable (what the patients are supposed to be protected against is a mystery that may never be solved).
It does not matter what “metal” these plans are, each is still a turd. That they cost more and increase at a greater rate than our free market plans did BO shows how [turdlike] each of these plans is.
This “affordable” healthcare law keeps making healthcare less and less affordable each passing year. It is just like most government programs, exacerbating rather than mitigating the problems they are intended to solve (similar to what MikeP recently noted elsewhere: http://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/another-obamacare-co-op-the-largest-collapses/#comment-821105 ).
I do not have Obamacare but I have to report what I just received in the mail from my healthcare provider Oxford.
My monthly rate is going down by $72.00 and my out of network deductible has gone up from $6000.00 to $7,000.00.
I will interpret this as good news.
It looks like you save money, so long as you don’t have to use more than $6,862 of deductible. On the other hand, you’re maximum extra cost is $138, so unless you are unlucky you seem to have come out better than most. This year. Congratulations on choosing a good insurer.
Unless your premiums were too high for this year, explaining the lowered premium for next year, in which case I offer you condolences for the extra that you paid.