re: Is anyone else's medical insurance plan as crappy as mine?

I pay $0 dollars at the VA. It’s risky and I could die in the wait room, but the savings can’t be overlooked. Those trips to 30A don’t pay for themselves.

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You can thank that worthless POS Obama and never vote for any rotten sonofabitch democrat ever

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Agreed

Hard working American taxpayers are forced to subsidize the coverage for others while incurring huge increases in their own premiums and having their co-payments and deductibles doubled. It was the Democrats who passed the law. We had to totally disrupt health coverage that many were happy with, had to endure a total revision of the healthcare system all for less than 3% of the population of this country. The Democrat Congress and President Obama passed a defective bill and will continue to pay the price for it. The Democrat Congress had to assure Obama got his signature accomplishment. The Democrats now own it lock, stock and barrel.

The Democrats can be proud of themselves. They gave Obama his signature accomplishment and now the Democrats own it. It would have been better for Congress to have allocated an assigned risk pool of funds to assist those who were shut out of the standard insurance markets by pre-existing conditions instead of this giant exercise in absurdity and lunacy.

Most people with Obamacare policies are unable to access their coverage due to prohibitive deductibles and co - payments. The Affordable Care Act was nothing more than a huge transference of wealth. It is amazing that a benefit which was previously provided by employers on a voluntary basis has now been placed under governmental control, forcing certain employers to provide the benefits or be fined, while telling them how the benefits are to be paid, how much they must pay, what is covered and deciding which of their employees lifestyles are to be subsidized by other employees.


In addition we were also being forced to subsidize health insurers through reimbursement corridors and subsidies when they were required to discard actuarial prognostications to assume any all risks with the knowledge that if their profits dropped accordingly the taxpayers would make up the difference. Now the courts have finally reigned in this assault on our constitution by the Obama administration.


Yes, the " uninsured rate " may have dropped . Much of this is due to the mandate to purchase ( the first time in the history of this country the populace is forced to purchase a product just for existing) and those who would have been eligible for Medicaid even without the Affordable Care Act. The courts have also struck this down.

When the Democrats were passing the ACA we were told, depending on the audience that there were 30,000,000 to 50,000,000 uninsured people in the country who would benefit from passing the ACA. Lets split it and call it 40 million uninsured. If those numbers were true then there should have been a stampede to sign up for coverage last year and this year. It was eventually exposed and finally admitted by the administration that they had lied and the number of signups was actually 6.3 million and not the 8.7 million they touted until they were exposed.



We were lied to again and again and again by the Obama administration. Jonathan Gruber, one of the plan's major architects confirmed the level of deceit by the Democrats. Hard working tax paying citizens are being forced to subsidize health care for others, meanwhile many have lost their own coverage and are being forced to purchase insurance with higher premiums and higher deductibles and co-payments. Despite Obama's claim it would reduce premiums an average of $2,500.00 per family the costs actually rose exponentially.

Join the National Guard. $218/month premium for full family, $300 deductible and $1k oop max.

With small kids, we’re at the doctor all the time. I’m self employed and was paying $800/month and 7500 deductible before kids and Obamacare. Can’t imagine how much it would be now.

It’s not even worth the $2400 per year in premiums. Frick that

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family with $6,750 deductible

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The remaining family must meet $10,000, then a 70/30 co-insurance kicks in until a max of pocket is reached of $13,500

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The premiums are $92.60, twice per month.

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Multiply your premiums by 5 and welcome to what self insurers pay

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is what I have is becoming the norm?

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About the norm now.

My wife's insurance is over $800 a month with a $6200 deductible. She is retired along with me. I have Medicare along with a Plan F. That cost me about $700 a month. I have to have it due to my health. Good thing there is zero deductible for me.

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To me a plan constructed like this discourages you from even trying to use it

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You can thank Obama for this, he screwed every working man's insurance up.

Of course if you quit working and go on welfare it's all free

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You can thank Obama for this, he screwed every working man's insurance up.

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100% true.

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Of course if you quit working and go on welfare it's all free

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Yep, the cost of what insurance cost is enough to eat away a retirement saving fast. That was/is the plan the Government wants.

About 23k/year.