re: Healthcare premiums show sharpest increases perhaps ever, since Obamacare

If we could just get everyone to accept that healthcare is a commodity, we would project the discussion of healthcare in this country by leaps and bounds.

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My employer is a British firm who can't believe the gov. doesn't provide health care insurance and refuses to help us

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Most brits are dumb arses who think their healthcare is world class and free. Their government has had 65 years to get it "right" and yet...

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Access to medical care is so poor in the NHS that the government was compelled to issue England’s 2010 “NHS Constitution” in which it was declared that no patient should wait beyond 18 weeks for treatment – four months – after GP referral. Defined as acceptable by bureaucrats who set them, such targets propagate the illusion of meeting quality standards despite seriously endangering their citizens, all of whom share an equally poor access to health care. Even given this extraordinarily long leash, the number of patients not being treated within that time soared by 43% to almost 30,000 last January. BBC subsequently discovered that many patients initially assessed as needing surgery were later re-categorized by the hospital so that they could be removed from waiting lists to distort the already unconscionable delays.

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Reality also prevents accepting the fantasy that the NHS-style socialized medicine as initiated in 1948 has actually lived up to the so-called “core value” of British society. For if true, it must seem odd that people of means in Britain consistently look elsewhere for medical care. About six million Brits now buy private health insurance, including almost two-thirds of Brits earning more than $78,700. According to The Telegraph, the number of people paying for their own private care is up 20 percent year-to-year, with about 250,000 now choosing to pay for private treatment out-of-pocket each year. And does anyone wonder why Prince Philip recently chose to receive his medical care in the private London Clinic? Is it a mystery why Prince William and Kate Middleton have chosen to deliver their royal baby and receive birth care at the private St. Mary’s Hospital? Isn’t it notable that more than 50,000 Britons travel out of the country per year and spend £161 million to receive medical care due to lack of access, even though they are hemorrhaging money for their national pride? When given the choice, Brits shun the NHS, and rightfully so.

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Has the deadline for group plans been delayed like everything else seems to have been?

I thought it was Jan of next year.

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Yes really. The insurance offered by my employer already meets all the coverage requirements and it is offered to 100% of the employees. The employer mandate will have zero effect on my coverage.

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Just wait. Ours only went up 10% but we had to increase copays and the deductibles or it would've been 25%. We can't do that again or we'll no longer be grandfathered in. We'll just have to pay the MUCH higher rates (they're guessing 50%) next year or drop it. How is that better? I would imagine your company has done the same.

And all this is with rates being kept artificially low as the gov't has promised insurances they will cover any loses (with interest) just to get people signed up. So this "free" coverage will disappear like a fart in the wind once the insurances companies are on the hook. And premiums will skyrocket unless true penalties are in place to force everyone to buy in. Obama's average savings of $2500/household greatly overestimated the young and healthy and greatlty underestimated the sick and debilitated that would jump on it. I personally know of five people that quit work to get free Obamacare to pay of necessary healthcare. They had it, but once they figure in free care, food stamps, etc. They were better off quitting. These five have accumulated in excess of $400,000 in healthcare cost since the beginning of this year. Total out of pocket for them? $0.00. Number of young healthy "invincibles" I have seen sign up? mf'ing ZERO. Hell these people didn't get it when it was cheaper and better. Why the frick would they buy it now. GD liberals have to be the dumbest mf'ers alive. Pie in the sky hypothetical bullshite does not equal real world realities and we told yall. Yet you still defend this shite storm. Your dumbassery is astounding and you continue to take it to levels a sane person cannot comprehend.