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I told you Obamacare is going to suck!:30% premium jump in California could signal national rise
I told you Obamacare is going to suck!
See this article wit headline: 30% premium jump in California could signal national rise
A revealing quote from the article:"Health insurance will become relatively less expensive for people with chronic conditions and relatively more expensive for healthier people," Robert Cosway, an actuary at Milliman, which prepared the report for Covered California, told the Times.
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Careful what you read in "the media," as many sources have a clear political slant, and the law's complexity makes it easy to write entire articles with very convincing half-truths.
The ACA is the most free-market solution and non-invasive (for those getting overage through an employer group) to the health care coverage problem that is possible, but that still actually works. If it turns out that folks don't like this solution, then there always is the public option, and after that, the expansion of Medicare down to age 0. The anti-ACA crowd has no solution; all they have is snake oil.
on a daily basis for many reasons like sports, stunt men, skateboarders,
then you will have expensive insurance because it's not natural."
LOL, if folks were move active, there would be lower costs for all the conditions brought up folks not exercising.
OK, so what is your plan if you get diagnosed with cancer and looking at $200K in treatment at the "rack rate" price? Are you going to come up the cash? Are you going to the honorable thing and forgo treatment and just die? Or are you going to show up at a hospital and let it take care of you, building up a huge debt that you will default on by filing for bankruptcy, thereby driving up the prices for everyone else because of your selfishness?