Florida, Georgia say insurance rates to spike under Obamacare

[ScienceRocks]

Florida, Georgia say insurance rates to spike under Obamacare

- Florida and Georgia, two states where politicians oppose U.S. President Barack Obama's healthcare law, said on Tuesday that insurance rates for individuals would rise sharply in 2014 under the reform.

The remarks are part of an increasingly polarized debate over whether "Obamacare" will prove affordable for millions of uninsured Americans when new health plans become available on state-based exchanges as of October 1.

Florida, Georgia say insurance rates to spike under Obamacare

 

[ScienceRocks]

Why is it failing?

 

[Political Junky]

Interesting, in the states that approve of ObamaCare the rates are going down and in those that oppose the rates are going up.

 

[Toronado3800]

Florida, Georgia say insurance rates to spike under Obamacare

- Florida and Georgia, two states where politicians oppose U.S. President Barack Obama's healthcare law, said on Tuesday that insurance rates for individuals would rise sharply in 2014 under the reform.

The remarks are part of an increasingly polarized debate over whether "Obamacare" will prove affordable for millions of uninsured Americans when new health plans become available on state-based exchanges as of October 1.

Florida, Georgia say insurance rates to spike under Obamacare

In a overly simplistic way....

So lets say we live in a sneaky socialist world where if you want insurance you get it and if you don't want it you don't because hospitals will treat you on other people's dime anyway if you fall ill.

50% of the folks in that socialist world will have insurance because they either want to do the right thing or want to pass on wealth to their children. The other 50% won't, be they freeloaders, folks who will get it next year when money permits, folks who have an apartment so they can not lose any property to the hospital, whatever. So 50% of the world bears the cost for the rest more or less.

No in my world of hatred of freeloaders I am going to friggin force you to either have private insurance or tax you into it. So now almost all folks are going to share the cost of medical insurance and care except them lowest 5% who never seem to get it right.

Sure there are some theories that insurance raises the cost of medical treatment. Problem is human nature, I just can not convince most folks to set aside what, $50,000 to $500,000 for their long term medical needs to be paid out of pocket. then the rest I can't convince to throw the freeloaders out on the street to wait for the messiah to come cure. Darn soft hippies.

 

[bripat9643]

Interesting, in the states that approve of ObamaCare the rates are going down and in those that oppose the rates are going up.

Wrong. What you meant to say is that politicians who like Obama claim insurance rates will go down. There isn't a shred of evidence to support their ridiculous claims.

 

[Ravi]

When Florida and Georgia can actually speak the will say derp.

 

[Geaux4it]

Florida, Georgia say insurance rates to spike under Obamacare

- Florida and Georgia, two states where politicians oppose U.S. President Barack Obama's healthcare law, said on Tuesday that insurance rates for individuals would rise sharply in 2014 under the reform.

The remarks are part of an increasingly polarized debate over whether "Obamacare" will prove affordable for millions of uninsured Americans when new health plans become available on state-based exchanges as of October 1.

Florida, Georgia say insurance rates to spike under Obamacare

California is hosed as well.

-Geaux

http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapot...ease-individual-insurance-premiums-by-64-146/

Central-Illinoisand_beyond: Obamacare: Premium Spikes to Rock California's Individual Market

One of the most serious flaws with Obamacare is that its blizzard of regulations and mandates drives up the cost of insurance for people who buy it on their own. This problem will be especially acute when the law’s main provisions kick in on January 1, 2014, leading many to worry about health insurance “rate shock.” Last week, the state of California claimed that its version of Obamacare’s health insurance exchange would actually reduce premiums. “These rates are way below the worst-case gloom-and-doom scenarios we have heard,” boasted Peter Lee, executive director of the California exchange.

But the data that Lee released tells a different story: Obamacare, in fact, will increase individual-market premiums in California by as much as 146 percent.