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The amount of the average premium for individual insurance in the country is meaningless for two reasons:I just saw on TV that a woman in Florida had insurance that cost her $650. a year. It would have paid her $50. toward a hospital stay.Exactly. Obama LIED when he said you can "keep your plan". Now he says, "you can get a better plan". Guess what, if you're young and healthy, you don't need a "better plan" as much as you need extra money to save for retirement, invest, and pay for basic expenses.
This is classic redistribution of wealth from those who are successful to those who are not. It's unacceptable.
B.S--there is no such thing as medical insurance for $650.00 per year. You're probably confusing that with a woman who has medicare benefits and is paying for an additional supplemental plan at $650.00 per year to cover the donut holes within Medicare.
The average cost for medical insurance under Obamacare today is $650.00 PER MONTH. That's for the "silver plan". The Gold plan is much higher.
The point of this thread is that millions of Americans bought and paid for their own chosen medical insurance plans--based on their personal health requirements that are now getting kicked off of those plans due to Obamacare mandates. All of them are now forced to enter plans they don't want--at double or triple the rate that they were paying.
And there will be millions more that get the letter--and millions after that when this virus enters the employer mandate in 2014.
- The cost of non-group health insurance is based on income.
- There has always been a huge variation in premiums across the country which is due to the number of companies offering policies. In some counties in the country, there are only two companies that offer non-group health insurance. In other places their are dozen or more.