The cost increases will accelerate until the people demand that the government take over health care. Then the real problems will began.
The average price of the most popular ObamaCare health insurance plans rose 10 percent for 2015, according to a new study of premium figures published Friday by the Department of Health and Human Services HHS…Not only are premiums increasing, but if consumers do not pick a different plan, they could pay more due to annual changes in how subsidies are calculated.
That’s according to the administration itself — and we know how scrupulously transparent they are about reporting unhelpful news, don’t we? This double-digit average increase for consumers who’ve signed up for Obamacare’s most popular plans speaks to another problem we addressed over the summer: Namely, as the exchanges’ so-called “benchmark” plans change from year to year, a large number of customers will be forced to decide between absorbing higher costs as previous benchmark plans hike their rates, and uprooting themselves from their existing plan — again, in many cases. And, as usual, this doesn’t even…
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Centinel2012: No doubt the “evil geniuses” behind ObamaCare would love nothing more than collapse of the private third-party network system leading to single (government) payer. However, luckily there is another force at work within the free market that is readying a new alternative. It is actually not new as a model, but an old and better way being resurrected. It is Direct Pay medicine (mostly primary care and outpatient specialty care) plus indemnity coverage for bigger ticket items. This, combined with a trend towards employer-based defined contribution plans will hopefully put a big dent or fatal wound into the third-party network cartel and their government cronies that keep it in power. If (when) we reach a critical mass of doctors that don’t participate in insurance networks, then the whole thing falls apart, but in a good direction, not a bad one. You suddenly have about 200K independent physicians and a couple hundred million free agent patients!
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