re: Just got my insurance notice from HR

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I work with a lot of HR people and they call it Obamacare.

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In company correspondence?

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they are indicating the op is full of shite as no professional company involved in health insurance would call the Affordable Care Act in correspondence referring to it as Obamacare.

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To be clear, it was one of the partners conveying the office insurance situation given to them from HR. So it was a "matter of fact" type of email, and not some official document generated from an insurance or HR representative. His decision to use the term "Obama Care" and not "Affordable Care Act" doesnt' really matter.

What matters is that the typical ~5% annual increase is about to get octupled. What happens at the next renewal?

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Interesting to note that at Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Alabama, the top 10 executives have seen salary increases of over 50% over the past 2-3 years.

So it is fair to blame ACA for some of these rate increases, but look into what your insurance company is paying its executives. Some are using ACA to justify huge salary increases.

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Can you do the math for me and tell me how much insurance rates would go down to everyone on a BCBS of Alabama plan if those execs completely eliminated their pay rates? Not just reduced them to the previous levels, but completely eliminated.

I have a feeling the point you're trying to make really isn't a very valid point.

It's not, it's just another deflection

Let's keep count...in order to divert attention away from the massive rate increase your company's employees have to deal with we have Obamabots trying to make the main issue:

1) how the company communication referred to the ACA,
2) how much insurance senior officers are paid, and,
3) single payer would be better.

Have I missed anything?

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In company correspondence?

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Yes. These are smaller companies with less than 100 lives. They tend to be more informal. Larger companies with 100 or more lives tend to be more "professional". Although they tend to be more "professional" it doesn't make them any more competent then their smaller companies counterparts.

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Let's keep count...in order to divert attention away from the massive rate increase your company's employees have to deal with we have Obamabots trying to make the main issue:

1) how the company communication referred to the ACA, and,
2) how much insurance senior officers are paid.

Have I missed anything?

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3) Single payer would be better & politicians are in the pocket of the insurance companies so we'll never get it.

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To be clear, it was one of the partners conveying the office insurance situation given to them from HR. So it was a "matter of fact" type of email, and not some official document generated from an insurance or HR representative.

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That makes more sense

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Interesting to note that at Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Alabama, the top 10 executives have seen salary increases of over 50% over the past 2-3 years.

So it is fair to blame ACA for some of these rate increases, but look into what your insurance company is paying its executives. Some are using ACA to justify huge salary increases.

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So can you add up the costs of the salaries for all these top executives and tell me what % of the expenditures of BC/BS that is?