Comments on: Obamacare premiums to go up: who knew?

By: Beverly

Beverly — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 04:50:24 +0000

A Poor Soul called Rush today, confessed he’d voted for Comrade Zero twice, then said, “I have private insurance. But I just got a letter saying if I don’t enroll in the plan by March 31, I can’t get in until next year!” He was dumbfounded that Obamacare has its tentacles all over the “private” insurance plans, too.

Morons.

I do know that the walls have been closing in for a long time (and there’s no faithful little droid to save us). I’m in NYC, which is well down the line into the abyss. Just in the last 3 years, e.g., my deductible went from $0, to $1000, to $2000. And my co-insurance went from 0% to 20% in that same time. Over just about five years, the premiums went up from $350 to $688.

Brace yourselves, folks. This horror show is Coming Soon to a City Near You.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U3Oti2L8S4

By: Don Carlos

Don Carlos — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 02:17:23 +0000

Bev-
Centralization of health care has been going on for a long time, more than 30 years now. In 1970 the NC Medical Society was recruiting docs to the entire state, including Durham County (not to Duke Univ Med Ctr, either), and there was a non-Duke hospital in Durham for them to use. Duke figured out it was training its own competition, so….now health care in Durham County is all Duke. Next door is Orange County, home of UNC; all health care there is UNC. Duke and UNC have divided adjacent Wake County (Raleigh, state capitol) so each owns a hospital there and 50% of the docs work for one or the other.

Feds don’t think this is antitrust: if you don’t like UNC you can go to Duke. This same story-vertically integrated ‘non-profits’- now covers the large majority of the US population.

A majority of MDs finishing training now get hired by the megamedicals; owning one’s own shop is too costly and too burdensome. If your patients need to use their insurance, you cannot compete with a megamedical. Cosmetics is the only out…for cash.

The allegiance of an employee, even a medical employee, is to the employer, not the patient.
You ain’t seen nothing yet, though: await the IPAB.

By: n.n

n.n — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 01:32:36 +0000

With trillion dollar deficits, and a four trillion dollar operation, “reform” still required increasing total costs and subsidies to assure “affordability” while not increasing availability nor ensuring universal medical insurance, let alone health care.

By: Beverly

Beverly — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 01:05:25 +0000

Another thing that we already know is going to go up: the penalty/tax/John Quisling Roberts Memorial Fund. It’s only the first year that it’s “just $95” or whatever.

By: Beverly

Beverly — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 01:04:12 +0000

Well, the Powers that Be (TPTB), government and corporate, have John Q. Public trussed up like a pig for the slaughter.

We will from henceforth have NO CONTROL over our medical care: TPTB will raise our rates/taxes at will; there will be no recourse when they deny/ration our medical care — AND we won’t be allowed to sue. After all, you can’t sue the Government!

Brilliant.

You know all the folks who whined and bitched about how bad the insurance companies were, raising rates, denying coverage for this or that? How Stupid Can They Be to vote for it all to be handed over to a bloody oligarchy that is completely unaccountable (in any real-world sense) to its victims? (Yeah, I know: there are a lot of “citizens” whose political IQ is in the single-digit range).

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 00:11:00 +0000

She’s a good apparatchik who will say whatever is needed, however preposterous, to placate the public for as long as possible.

So Saddam Hussein’s Baghdad Bob is the same as American Hussein’s propaganda head.

By: Cornhead

Cornhead — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 23:42:22 +0000

Addendum 2. And Bennie was a lobbyist for the insurance companies before he was governor and senator.

Don Carlos is correct. Health insurance companies have had great common stock performance since the ACA passed. And their losses are covered. Cozy deal.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 23:40:17 +0000

Don’t worry, if you capture a conservative witch and burn it at the stake, your premiums are guaranteed to go down by 20% per burning.

Long Live the Democrat KKK.

By: Cornhead

Cornhead — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 23:18:38 +0000

Addendum: Nelson was the 60th vote.

By: Cornhead

Cornhead — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 23:17:56 +0000

This whole Obamacare law was crafted for Corporate America and that includes health insurers.

Don’t forget that Nebraska’s Ben Nelson and he now is the head lobbyist for the insurance industry.