kom526
They call me ... Sarcasmo
So we had our open enrollment meeting on Wednesday (AFTER the election) and guess what? Another increase in premiums. Wasn't lower premiums a "selling point" on the Change You Can Believe In HC debacle?
Do you think that if open enrollment came around BEFORE 2 November things would have come out a bit differently?
Health insurance at my company is now up to $5000.00 a year for family and I guy I work with got dropped from his wife's (better) insurance because her employer could not afford to cover spouses anymore.
Do you think that if open enrollment came around BEFORE 2 November things would have come out a bit differently?
[/snip]We all remember candidate Barack Obama’s promise, “There is no doubt that we must preserve what is best about our health care system, and that means allowing Americans who like their doctors and their health care plans to keep them.” Candidate Obama also warned that if a federal health care law was not passed, “premiums will climb higher, benefits will erode further, and the rolls of uninsured will swell to include millions more Americans.”
Unfortunately Americans are learning that the promises of candidate Obama are not matching up to the reality under President Obama. The effects of the federal health care law may still be in the earliest stages, but we can see where the trend line is going.
Already businesses and insurance companies are reporting health insurance premiums are going up. A recent survey of Milwaukee-based employers indicated that 64% of companies with 100 or more employees are facing insurance premium increases of 2% or more due to the federal health care law. Fourteen percent are reporting the new requirements of the federal health care law will add more than 4%, according to a survey conducted by HCTrends.[/snip]
Health insurance at my company is now up to $5000.00 a year for family and I guy I work with got dropped from his wife's (better) insurance because her employer could not afford to cover spouses anymore.